"The spirit cannot endure the body when overfed, but, if underfed, the body cannot endure the spirit."
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"It is part of the novelist's convention not to mention soup and salmon and ducklings, as if soup and salmon and ducklings were of no importance."
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"The first time you see something that you have never seen before, you almost always know right away if you should eat it or run away from it."
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"It was dramatic to watch my grandmother decapitate a turkey with an ax the day before Thanksgiving. Nowadays the expense of hiring grandmothers for the ax work would probably qualify all turkeys so honored with gourmet status."
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"A hippo sandwich is easy to make. All you do is simply take one slice of bread, one slice of cake, some mayonnaise, one onion ring, one hippopotamus, one piece of string, a dash of pepper. That ought to do it. And now comes the problem... biting into it!"
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"An army marches on its stomach."
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"Cold soup is a very tricky thing and it is a rare hostess who can carry it off. More often than not the dinner guest is left with the impression that had he only come a little earlier he could have gotten it while it was still hot."
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"Whether you change the linen or stitch up wounds, cook the food or dispense the medicines, it is in your hands to help build a public service worthy of all those who gave their lives for the dream of democracy"
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"The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man."
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"I do not want to make my stomach a graveyard of dead animals."
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"I never eat sushi. I have trouble eating things that are merely unconscious."
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"Hope is the poor man's bread."
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"To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it."
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"Hell is probably quite similar to most Paris bistros ... a bit overheated, somewhat too crowded, and a little too noisy for my tastes. The waiters will surely treat you rudely and the cashiers will always add a few extra francs to your bill but ... and this is the important part ... the food will be marvelous."
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"Why, you might just as well say that, I see what I eat, is the same as, I eat what I see."
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"A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs."
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"I’m awfully sorry for people who are taken in by all of today’s dietary mumbo jumbo. They are not getting any enjoyment out of their food."
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"In spite of food fads, fitness programs, and health concerns, we must never lose sight of a beautifully conceived meal."
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"Being American is to eat a lot of beef steak, and boy, we've got a lot more beef steak than any other country, and that's why you ought to be glad you're an American. And people have started looking at these big hunks of bloody meat on their plates, you know, and wondering what on earth they think they're doing."
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"The best poet is the man who delivers our daily bread: the local baker."
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