"My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people."
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"A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite."
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"You take romance - I'll take Jell-O."
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"There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread."
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"Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the 'Titanic' who waved off the dessert cart."
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"People who love to eat are always the best people."
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"One of the greatest pleasures of my life has been that I have never stopped learning about Good Cooking and Good Food"
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"You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans."
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"Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food"
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"Unless we change our food choices, nothing else matters. Because it is meat that is destroying most of our forests. It is meat that pollutes the waters. It is meat that is creating disease which leads to all our money being diverted to hospitals. So, it's the first choice for anybody who wants to save the Earth."
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"He receives comfort like cold porridge."
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"What I've enjoyed most, though, is meeting people who have a real interest in food and sharing ideas with them. Good food is a global thing and I find that there is always something new and amazing to learn - I love it!"
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"Hell is other people at breakfast."
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"To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art."
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"Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends."
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"As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans."
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"If you can eat with mates or friends or family, I mean, it's such a brilliant thing isn't it? If you feel really rubbish and you have a nice bit of food it makes you feel good, you know?"
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"I got food poisoning today. I don't know when I'll use it."
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"He was a bold man that first ate an oyster."
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"I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate."
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