"Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody."
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"Nothing helps scenery like bacon and eggs."
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"The way to a man's heart is through his hanky pocket with a breadknife."
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"I don't believe in twisting yourself into knots of excuses and explanations over the food you make.... Usually one's cooking is better than one thinks it is. And if the food is truly vile...then the cook must simply grit her teeth and bear it with a smile."
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"As you get older, you shouldn't waste time drinking bad wine."
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"With enough butter, anything is good"
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"Serve this dish with much too much wine for your guests, along with some cooked green vegetables and a huge salad. You will be famous in about half an hour."
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"The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure; neither the greatest captains nor the greatest philosophers have disdained the use or science of eating well."
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"It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him."
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"Those magazine dieting stories always have the testimonial of a woman who wore a dress that could slipcover New Jersey in one photo and thirty days later looked like a well-dressed thermometer."
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"Hunger never saw bad bread."
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"Hunger is the best pickle."
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"Hold your Council before Dinner; the full Belly hates Thinking as well as Acting."
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"A full Belly is the Mother of all Evil."
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"Eat at your own as you would the table of a king."
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"We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should."
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"Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future."
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"Champagne had the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife."
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"Here is a rural fellow that will not be denied your Highness' presence: he brings you figs."
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"Never commit yourself to a cheese without having first examined it."
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