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"In moments of considerable strain, I tend to take to bread-and-butter pudding. There is something about the blandness of soggy bread, the crispness of the golden outer crust and the unadulterated pleasure of a lightly set custard that makes the world seem a better place to live."
"Grub first, then ethics."
"My grandfather had a wonderful funeral... On the buffet table there was a replica of the deceased in potato salad."
"People want honest, flavourful food, not some show-off meal that takes days to prepare."
"Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay."
"The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me."
"The glances over cocktails That seem to be so sweet Don't seem quite so amorous Over Shredded Wheat"
"Thanksgiving Day - Let all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks, now, but the turkeys. In the island of Fiji they do not use turkeys, they use plumbers. It does not become you and me to sneer at Fiji."
"Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming."
"You cannot sell a blemished apple in the supermarket, but you can sell a tasteless one provided it is shiny, smooth, even, uniform and bright."
"Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial."
"What hunger is in relation to food, zest is in relation to life."
"Although I have been prevented by outward circumstances from observing a strictly vegetarian diet, I have long been an adherent to the cause in principle. Besides agreeing with the aims of vegetarianism for aesthetic and moral reasons, it is my view that a vegetarian manner of living by its purely physical effect on the human temperament would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind."
"Beans are highly nutritious and satisfying, they can also be delicious if and when properly prepared, and they posses over all vegetables the great advantage of being just as good, if not better, when kept waiting, an advantage in the case of people whose disposition or occupation makes it difficult for them to be punctual at mealtime."
"Most dear actors, eat no onions nor garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath."
"Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?"
"Bait the hook well. This fish will bite."
"Give them great meals of beef and iron and steel, they will eat like wolves and fight like devils."
"Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult."
"I eat a variety of foods like vegetables, fruit and beef for protein and iron."
