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

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What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

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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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Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.

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If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.

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EUCHARIST, n. A sacred feast of the religious sect of Theophagi. A dispute once unhappily arose among the members of this sect as to what it was that they ate. In this controversy some five hundred thousand have already been slain, and the question is still unsettled.

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A man wants nothing so badly as a gooseberry farm.

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Ice-cream is exquisite - what a pity it isn't illegal.

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Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.

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We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are.

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The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man.

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Gluttony is a great fault; but we do not necessarily dislike a glutton. We only dislike the glutton when he becomes a gourmet-that is, we only dislike him when he not only wants the best for himself, but knows what is best for other people.

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Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.

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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.

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A hungry stomach rarely despises common food.

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EAT, v.i. To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of mastication, humectation, and deglutition. 'I was in the drawing-room, enjoying my dinner,' said Brillat-Savarin, beginning an anecdote. 'What!' interrupted Rochebriant; 'eating dinner in a drawing-room?' 'I must beg you to observe, monsieur,' explained the great gastronome, 'that I did not say I was eating my dinner, but enjoying it. I had dined an hour before.'

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Most dear actors, eat no onions nor garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath.

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I prefer milk because I am a Prohibitionist, but I do not go to it for inspiration.

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We thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well being and delight.

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Everything Changes. The only thing that remains immovable across the centuries and fixes the character of a people is cooking.

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