"The friendly cow, all red and white, I love with all my heart; She gives me cream with all her might, To eat with apple-tart."
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"God bless my soul! No apple pie."
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"Look at airport security now. What started out as definite racial profiling is now where the computer picks a name. That's why you get a seven-month-old getting a pat down. [Imitates a security officer.] "Check the diapers. They're full.""
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"The longer I live, the more I am convinced that the apothecary is of more importance than Seneca; and that half the unhappiness in the world proceeds from little stoppages; from a duct choked up, from food pressing in the wrong place, from a vexed duodenum, or an agitated pylorus."
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"I should have remembered that when one is going to lead an entirely new life, one requires regular and wholesome meals."
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"Large, naked, raw carrots are acceptable as food only to those who live in hutches eagerly awaiting Easter."
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"Civilised adults do not take apple juice with dinner."
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"White grapes are very attractive but when it comes to dessert people generally like cake with icing."
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"Each sort of cheese reveals a pasture of a different green, under a different sky."
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"Consequently, the sensuous aspect of art is related only to the two theoretical sensesof sight and hearing, while smell, taste, and touch remain excluded."
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"We are always giving foreign names to very native things. If there is a thing that reeks of the glorious tradition of the old English tavern, it is toasted cheese. But for some wild reason we call it Welsh rarebit. I believe that what we call Irish stew might more properly be called English stew, and that it is not particularly familiar in Ireland."
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"He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise."
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"It was for bringing the cook tulip-roots instead of onions."
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"In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but feed us."
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"When one has tasted watermelon he knows what the angels eat."
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"A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditchdigging. It is the insanest of all recreations. The inventor of it overlooked no detail that could furnish weariness, distress, harassment, and acute and long-sustained misery of mind and body."
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"Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction."
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"Kitchen Physic is the best Physic."
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"I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout."
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"Bread is the staff of life."
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