"One of the problems with writing a cookbook is that recipes exist in the moment."
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"If you do not believe that a man will commit murder for one can of tomatoes, then you have never been hungry."
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"A human being is primarily a bag for putting food into."
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"Hunger is the best sauce in the world."
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"There is no way to understand the public reaction to the sight of a Freak smashing a coconut with a hammer on the hood of a white Cadillac in a Safeway parking lot unless you actually do it, and I tell you it's tense."
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"Given the clientele, the restaurants on Capri might resemble those fancy Northern Italian places on the East Side of Manhattan where the captain has taken bilingual sneering lessons from the maitre d' at the French joint down the street and the waiter, whose father was born in Palermo, would deny under torture that tomato sauce has ever touched his lips."
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"Kill no more pigeons than you can eat."
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"Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the water they loved to drink. This good man, Noah, having seen that all his contemporaries had perished by this unpleasant drink, took a dislike to it; and God, to relieve his dryness, created the vine and revealed to him the art of making le vin. By the aid of this liquid he unveiled more and more truth."
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"I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?"
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"That food has always been, and will continue to be, the basis for one of our greater snobbism does not explain the fact that the attitude toward the food choice of others is becoming more and more heatedly exclusive until it may well turn into one of those forms of bigotry against which gallant little committees are constantly planning campaigns in the cause of justice and decency."
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"In case my life should end with the cannibals, I hope they will write on my tombstone, 'We have eaten Dr. Schweitzer. He was good to the end.'"
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"If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts."
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"A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner."
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"There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will."
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"Breakfast cereals that come in the same colors as polyester leisure suits make oversleeping a virtue."
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"Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive."
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"And, of course, the funniest food of all, kumquats."
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"The swift December dusk had come tumbling clownishly after its dull day and, as he stared through the dull square of the window of the schoolroom, he felt his belly crave for its food. He hoped there would be stew for dinner, turnips and carrots and bruised potatoes and fat mutton pieces to be ladled out in thick peppered flourfattened sauce. Stuff it into you, his belly counselled him."
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"For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man's hunger."
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"There are no standards of taste in wine... Each man's own taste is the standard, and a majority vote cannot decide for him or in any slightest degree affect the supremacy of his own standard."
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