"The diet book is one of those fool-and-money separation devices that seems, like roulette or slot machines, never to lose its power."
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"Chicken may be eaten constantly without becoming nauseating."
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"The first of all considerations is that our meals shall be fun as well as fuel."
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"Don't touch my d**k, don't touch my knife."
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"The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it should be eaten without delay. Its finder has carried it off therefore to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose."
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"Sometimes the table was graced with immense apple-pies, or saucers full of preserved peaches and pears; but it was always sure to boast an enormous dish of balls of sweetened dough, fried in hog's fat, and called doughnuts, or olykoeks - a delicious kind of cake, at present scarce known in this city, except in genuine Dutch families."
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"A genial hearth, a hospitable board, and a refined rusticity."
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"the seat of the greatest patriotic loyalties is in the stomach. Long after giving up all attachment to the land of his birth, the naturalized American citizen holds fast to the food of his parents."
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"The real, native South Seas food is lousy. You can't eat it."
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"A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young an' believing."
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"It is as bad as bad can be: it is ill-fed, ill-killed, ill-kept, and ill-drest."
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"The French use cooking as a means of self-expression, and this meal perfectly represented the personality of a cook who had spent the morning resting her unwashed chin on the edge of a tureen, pondering whether she should end her life immediately by plunging her head into her abominable soup."
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"Wine from long habit has become an indispensable for my health"
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"I wonder if I love the communal act of eating so much because throughout my childhood, with four older brothers and a mom who worked in the restaurant business, I spent a lot of time fending for myself, eating alone - and recognizing how eating together made all the difference."
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"Truffles must come to the table in their own stock and as you break open this jewel sprung from a poverty-stricken soil, imagine - if you have never visited it - the desolate kingdom where it rules."
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"Tofu tacos are not Mexican. I think putting tofu on anything and calling it Mexican is an insult to my people."
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"It is an oldish question, but not perhaps a very interesting one, whether cooking is an art or not."
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"Eating at a new, highly recommended restaurant is like a Very Important Blind Date, a contract with uncertainty you enter into with great expectation battling the cynicism of experience. You sit waiting, wondering about the upcoming moments of revelation. Somewhere in the back of your head is the dour warning that disappointment is inevitable but you don't really believe it or you wouldn't be there. The best eaters are always optimists."
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"I eat to live, to serve, and also, if it so happens, to enjoy, but I do not eat for the sake of enjoyment."
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"I shall content myself with merely declaring my firm conviction that, for the seeker who would live in fear of God and who would see Him face to face, restraint in diet both as to quantity and quality is as essential as restraint in thought and speech."
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