"Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup!"
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"There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry."
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"I know the look of an apple that is roasting and sizzling on the hearth on a winter's evening, and I know the comfort that comes of eating it hot, along with some sugar and a drench of cream... I know how the nuts taken in conjunction with winter apples, cider, and doughnuts, make old people's tales and old jokes sound fresh and crisp and enchanting."
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"Life itself is the proper binge."
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"A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety."
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"A hen's egg is, quite simply, a work of art, a masterpiece of design and construction with, it has to be said, brilliant packaging!"
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"It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes."
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"The longer I work in nutrition, the more convinced I become that for the healthy person all foods should be delicious."
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"Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers."
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"The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small."
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"Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage."
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"Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness."
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"A hamburger is an icon of layered circles, the circle being at once the most spiritual and the most sensual of shapes."
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"Wine is bottled poetry."
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"When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain."
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"One can say everything best over a meal."
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"Soup not only warms you and is easy to swallow and to digest, it also creates the illusion in the back of your mind that Mother is there."
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"A cookbook is only as good as its poorest recipe."
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"How can people say they don't eat eggplant when God loves the color and the French love the name? I don't under'stand."
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"A man should not so much respect what he eats, as with whom he eats."
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