"I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead - not sick, not wounded - dead."
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"I said to my friends that if I was going to starve, I might as well starve where the food is good."
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"The dinner table is the center for the teaching and practicing not just of table manners but of conversation, consideration, tolerance, family feeling, and just about all the other accomplishments of polite society except the minuet."
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"The winter evening settles down With smell of steaks in passageways."
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"We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun."
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"All human history attests That happiness for man, - the hungry sinner! - Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner. ~Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto XIII, stanza 99"
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"The beet is the most intense of vegetables. The radish, admittedly, is more feverish, but the fire of the radish is a cold fire, the fire of discontent, not of passion. Tomatoes are lusty enough, yet there runs through tomatoes an undercurrent of frivolity. Beets are deadly serious."
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"Moderation. Small helpings. Sample a little bit of everything. These are the secrets of happiness and good health."
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"The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death."
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"It is ludicrous to read the microwave direction on the boxes of food you buy, as each one will have a disclaimer: THIS WILL VARY WITH YOUR MICROWAVE. Loosely translated, this means, You're on your own, Bernice."
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"Food simply isn't important to me."
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"They say fish should swim thrice * * * first it should swim in the sea (do you mind me?) then it should swim in butter, and at last, sirrah, it should swim in good claret."
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"Cassoulet, that best of bean feasts, is everyday fare for a peasant but ambrosia for a gastronome, though its ideal consumer is a 300-pound blocking back who has been splitting firewood nonstop for the last twelve hours on a subzero day in Manitoba."
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"It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings."
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"Ice-cream is exquisite - what a pity it isn't illegal."
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"Wine is sunlight, held together by water."
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"Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liverslices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencods' roes. Most of all he liked grilled mutton kidneys which gave to his palate a fine tang of faintly scented urine."
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"Only the pure in heart can make a good soup."
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"Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity."
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"Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup."
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