"Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived."
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"Dining with one's friends and beloved family is certainly one of life's primal and most innocent delights, one that is both soul-satisfying and eternal."
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"Food makes my mind sluggish."
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"My only regret in life is that I did not drink more wine."
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"To barbecue is a way of life rather than a desirable method of cooking."
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"Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship."
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"All knives and forks were working away at a rate that was quite alarming; very few words were spoken; and everybody seemed to eat his utmost, in self defence, as if a famine were expected to set in before breakfast-time to-morrow morning, and it had become high time to assert the first law of nature."
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"Stop short of your appetite; eat less than you are able."
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"Scallops are expensive, so they should be treated with some class. But then, I suppose that every creature that gives his life for our table should be treated with class."
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"He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart"
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"We manage to swallow flesh, only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing we do."
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"One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts."
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"Very well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant."
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"I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead."
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"A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses."
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"I use the word 'fat'. I use that word because that's what people are: they're fat. They're not bulky; they're not large, chunky, hefty or plump. And they're not big-boned. Dinosaurs were big-boned. These people are not overweight: this term somehow implies there is some correct weight... There is no correct weight. Heavy is also a misleading term. An aircraft carrier is heavy; it's not fat. Only people are fat, and that's what fat people are! They're fat !"
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"This is every cook's opinion - no savory dish without an onion, but lest your kissing should be spoiled your onions must be fully boiled."
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"It's fun to get together and have something good to eat at least once a day. That's what human life is all about - enjoying things."
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"God made yeast, as well as dough, and loves fermentation just as dearly as he loves vegetation."
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"There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented with a glass that is exactly half full, say: this glass is half full. And then there are those who say: this glass is half empty. The world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say: What's up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don't think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass! Who's been pinching my beer?"
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