"...instead of offering me a Garibaldi biscuit, she asked me with that faint lisp of hers, to 'have some squashed flies, George'."
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"I have known many meat eaters to be far more nonviolent than vegetarians."
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"God comes to the hungry in the form of food."
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"If you could make a pudding wi' thinking o' the batter, it 'ud be easy getting dinner."
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"Just the other day in the Underground I enjoyed the pleasure of offering my seat to three ladies."
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"Me and my books in the same apartment, like a gherkin in its vinegar."
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"Three million frogs' legs are served in Paris - daily. Nobody knows what became of the rest of the frogs."
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"The tomato hides its griefs. Internal damage is hard to spot."
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"Potatoes are to food what sensible shoes are to fashion."
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"The Spanish wine, my God, it is foul, catpiss is champagne compared, this is the sulphurous urination of some aged horse."
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"There are two Italies.... The one is the most sublime and lovely contemplation that can be conceived by the imagination of man; the other is the most degraded, disgusting, and odious. What do you think? Young women of rank actually eat - you will never guess what - garlick! Our poor friend Lord Byron is quite corrupted by living among these people, and in fact, is going on in a way not worthy of him."
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"Parla Come Mangi' --It is a common way to say 'be simple', 'don't try to be rhetorical' literaly: 'speak the way you eat"
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"The camembert with its venison scent defeats the Marolles and Limbourg dull smells; It spreads its exhalation, smothering the other scents under its surprising breath abundance."
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"Some of the best fiction writers got their start writing airline menus."
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"My son would walk to the refrigerator-freezer and fling both doors open and stand there until the hairs in his nose iced up. After surveying $200 worth of food in varying shapes and forms, he would declare loudly, 'There's nothing to eat!'"
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"Wine enlivens the human soul."
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"If the elbow had been placed closer to the hand, the forearm would have been too short to bring the glass to the mouth; and if it had been closer to the shoulder, the forearm would have been so long that it would have carried the glass beyond the mouth."
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"If it were not for the Belly, the Back might wear Gold."
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"Virtue, like wholesome food, is better than poisons, however corrected."
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"Eating a meal with full awareness can be a powerful, enlightening, and healing experience."
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