Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.
Stomach: A slave that must accept everything that is given to it, but which avenges wrongs as slyly as does the slave.
Taking food alone tends to make one hard and coarse. Those accustomed to it must lead a Spartan life if they are not to go downhill. Hermits have observed, if for only this reason, a frugal diet. For it is only in company that eating is done justice; food must be divided and distributed if it is to be well received.
My only regret in life is that I did not drink more wine.
You may feel that you have eaten too much...But this pastry is like feathers - it is like snow. It is in fact good for you, a digestive!
Large, naked, raw carrots are acceptable as food only to those who live in hutches eagerly awaiting Easter.
We owe much to the fruitful meditation of our sages, but a sane view of life is, after all, elaborated mainly in the kitchen.
If the soup had been as warm as the wine; if the wine had been as old as the turkey; and if the turkey had had a breast like the maid, it would have been a swell dinner.
Kitchen Physic is the best Physic.
America knows nothing of food, love, or art.
Some breakfast food manufacturer hit upon the simple notion of emptying out the leavings of carthorse nose bags, adding a few other things like unconsumed portions of chicken layer's mash, and the sweepings of racing stables, packing the mixture in little bags and selling them in health food shops.
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
Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.
Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.
The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.
I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.
Sitting down to a meal with an Indian family is different from sitting down to a meal with a British family.
Good food is a right, not a privilege. It brings children into a positive relationship with their health, community and environment.
When we no longer have good cooking in the world, we will have no literature, nor high and sharp intelligence, nor friendly gatherings, no social harmony.
Give a man food, and he can eat for a day. Give a man a job, and he can only eat for 30 minutes on break.
I didn't say the meat was tough. I said I didn't see the horse that is usually outside.
There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will.
All food is the gift of the gods and has something of the miraculous, the egg no less than the truffle.
Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.
I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
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