"Without peanuts, it isn't a cocktail party."
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"Celebrity has its uses. I can always get a seat in any restaurant."
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"Pray how does your asparagus perform?"
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"Please understand the reason why Chinese vegetables taste so good. It is simple. The Chinese do not cook them, they just threaten them!"
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"I prefer the Chinese method of eating.... You can do anything at the table except arm wrestle."
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"Prepared and fast foods have given us the time and freedom to see cooking as an art form - a form of creative expression."
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"Whoever takes just plain ginger ale soon gets drowned out of the conversation."
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"If your doctor does not think it good for you to sleep, to drink wine, or to eat of a particular dish, do not worry; I will find you another who will not agree with him."
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"Give me the provisions and whole apparatus of a kitchen, and I would starve."
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"The refectory is a cenacle in which the taking of food is transfigured almost into a sacrament."
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"Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner."
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"That famish'd people must be slowly nurst, and fed by spoonfuls, else they always burst."
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"But beef is rare within these oxless isles; Goat's flesh there is, no doubt, and kid, and mutton; And, when a holiday upon them smiles, A joint upon their barbarous spits they put on."
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"It is harder to be unhappy when you are eating."
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