"It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician."
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"I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine; every man for himself, and God for us all."
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"A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting."
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"Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen."
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"This recipe is certainly silly. It says to separate two eggs, but it doesn't say how far to separate them."
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"The most dangerous food is wedding cake."
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"I was raised almost entirely on turnips and potatoes, but I think that the turnips had more to do with the effect than the potatoes."
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"Over the years since I left home, I have kept thinking about the people I grew up with and about our way of life. I realize how much the bond that held us had to do with food."
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"Beware the hobby that eats."
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"In department stores, so much kitchen equipment is bought indiscriminately by people who just come in for men's underwear."
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"Talking of Pleasure, this moment I was writing with one hand, and with the other holding to my Mouth a Nectarine - how good how fine. It went down all pulpy, slushy, oozy, all its delicious embonpoint melted down my throat like a large, beatified Strawberry."
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"Salt is born of the purest parents: the sun and the sea."
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"The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one."
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"Life is half delicious yogurt, half crap, and your job is to keep the plastic spoon in the yogurt."
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"I am not a glutton - I am an explorer of food"
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"I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still."
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"Rule of thumb: Eat for what you're going to be doing, and not for what you have done. Don't take in more than you're willing to burn off."
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"What we're really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving?"
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"If you're using first-class land for biofuels, then you're competing with the growing of food. And so you're actually spiking food prices by moving energy production into agriculture."
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"Get people back into the kitchen and combat the trend toward processed food and fast food."
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