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It was for bringing the cook tulip-roots instead of onions.

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A pasty costly-made, Where quail and pigeon, lark and leveret lay, Like fossils of the rock, with golden yolks Imbedded and injellied.

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Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Food Quotes , Rocks Quotes

Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one's childhood that one goes through wondering what the next course is going to be like - and during the rest of the menu one wishes one had eaten more of the hors d'oeuvres.

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To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist - the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one's vinegar.

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Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.

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Thy food is such As hath been belch'd on by infected lungs.

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An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.

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Forcing people to eat together is an effective way to promote tolerance.

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Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

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Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

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Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!

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Thanksgiving Day - Let all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks, now, but the turkeys. In the island of Fiji they do not use turkeys, they use plumbers. It does not become you and me to sneer at Fiji.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Food Quotes , Humble Quotes

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

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Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.

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The winter evening settles down With smell of steaks in passageways.

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A genial hearth, a hospitable board, and a refined rusticity.

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The real, native South Seas food is lousy. You can't eat it.

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Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.

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There are two Italies.... The one is the most sublime and lovely contemplation that can be conceived by the imagination of man; the other is the most degraded, disgusting, and odious. What do you think? Young women of rank actually eat - you will never guess what - garlick! Our poor friend Lord Byron is quite corrupted by living among these people, and in fact, is going on in a way not worthy of him.

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Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Food Quotes , Men Quotes

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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