"We owe much to the fruitful meditation of our sages, but a sane view of life is, after all, elaborated mainly in the kitchen."
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"A philosopher is a person who doesn't care which side his bread is buttered on; he knows he eats both sides anyway."
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"The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse."
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"If you're afraid of butter, use cream."
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"Just like becoming an expert in wine–you learn by drinking it, the best you can afford–you learn about great food by finding the best there is, whether simply or luxurious. The you savor it, analyze it, and discuss it with your companions, and you compare it with other experiences."
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"I don't go for the nouvelle approach - serving a rabbit rump with coffee extract sauce and a slice of kiwi fruit."
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"Feasting is also closely related to memory. We eat certain things in a particular way in order to remember who we are. Why else would you eat grits in Madison, New Jersey?"
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"You can't just eat good food. You've got to talk about it too. And you've got to talk about it to somebody who understands that kind of food."
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"The same intelligence is required to marshal an army in battle and to order a good dinner. The first must be as formidable as possible, the second as pleasant as possible, to the participants."
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"Our holiday food splurge was a small crate of tangerines, which we found ridiculously thrilling after an eight-month abstinence from citrus.... Lily hugged each one to her chest before undressing it as gently as a doll. Watching her do that as she sat cross-legged on the floor one morning in pink pajamas, with bliss lighting her cheeks, I thought: Lucky is the world, to receive this grateful child. Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing."
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"His argument is as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by oiling the shadow of a pigeon that had been starved to death."
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"I have always maintained that there is nothing wrong with nursery food now that we are grown up and can have a glass of wine with it."
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"The age of your children is a key factor in how quickly you are served in a restaurant. We once had a waiter in Canada who said, "Could I get you your check?" and we answered, "How about the menu first?""
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"I convinced him his luggage had gone to that big Bermuda Triangle in the sky."
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"We thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well being and delight."
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"I sacrifice to no god save myself - And to my belly, greatest of deities."
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"A full Belly brings forth every Evil."
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"Fools make feasts and wise men eat them."
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"A full Belly makes a dull Brain: The Muses starve in a Cook's Shop."
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"At the working man’s house, hunger looks in but dares not enter."
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