"A fat kitchin, a lean Will."
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"That's a big goal of mine, to try and grow as much of my own food as possible"
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"Chutney is marvelous. I'm mad about it. To me, it's very imperial."
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"There was a little plate of hothouse nectarines on the table, and there was another of grapes, and another of sponge-cakes, and there was a bottle of light wine ... 'This is my frugal breakfast ... Give me my peach, my cup of coffee, and my claret.'"
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"He describes it as a large apartment, with a red brick floor and a capacious chimney; the ceiling garnished with hams, sides of bacon, and ropes of onions."
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"Hallo! A great deal of steam! the pudding was out of the copper. A smell like a washing-day! That was the cloth. A smell like an eating-house and a pastrycook's next door to each other, with a laundress's next door to that. That was the pudding."
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"Don't hit the person across from you with bits of toast, And don't, when dinner is nearly through, say 'Who's the host' It isn't done."
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"The world is progressing and resources are becoming more abundant. I'd rather go into a grocery store today than a king's banquet a hundred years ago."
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"I lurched away from the table after a few hours feeling like Elvis in Vegas - fat, drugged, and completely out of it."
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"A man wants nothing so badly as a gooseberry farm."
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"A soup like this is not the work of one man. It is the result of a constantly refined tradition. There are nearly a thousand years of history in this soup."
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"Bread is a staple article of diet in theory, rather than in practice. There are few who are truly fond of bread in its simplest, most pure, and most healthful state.... Is there one person in a thousand who would truly enjoy a meal of simple bread of two days old?"
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"Thy food is such As hath been belch'd on by infected lungs."
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"Who riseth from a feast With that keen appetite that he sits down?"
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"Contemporary societies have lost the sense of the feast but have kept the obscure drive for it."
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"Huge lemons, cut in slices, would sink like setting suns into the dusky sea, softly illuminating it with their radiating membranes, and its clear, smooth surface aquiver from the rising bitter essence."
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"Everything Changes. The only thing that remains immovable across the centuries and fixes the character of a people is cooking."
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"I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable."
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"A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek."
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"Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding."
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