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The first of all considerations is that our meals shall be fun as well as fuel.
I feel like a midget with muddy feet had been walking over my tongue all night.
It is as bad as bad can be: it is ill-fed, ill-killed, ill-kept, and ill-drest.
When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.
If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it.
The 12-step chocolate program: NEVER BE MORE THAN 12 STEPS AWAY FROM CHOCOLATE!
Garlic, like perfume, must be used with discretion and on the proper occasions.
Every healthy man can do without food for two days — but without poetry, never!
Spaghetti can be eaten most successfully if you inhale it like a vacuum cleaner.
To get enough to eat was regarded as an achievement. To get drunk was a victory.
Seems to me God made a big mistake when He failed to put handles on watermelons.
One of the problems with writing a cookbook is that recipes exist in the moment.
Earthmen are not proud of their ancestors and never invite them round to dinner.
Peruvian food is so simple yet amazingly flavored with their traditional spices.
A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young an' believing.
Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is.
Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something.
Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin surprise thee, and her black attendant Death.
I pray thee let me and my fellow have a haire of the dog that bit us last night.
There's a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.
A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?
Hold your Council before Dinner; the full Belly hates Thinking as well as Acting.
Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.
The Italians were eating with forks when the French were still eating each other.
Drink wine every day, at lunch and dinner, and the rest will take care of itself.
Condiments are like old friends - highly thought of, but often taken for granted.
You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six.
Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg until it is broken.
The noise from good toast should reverberate in the head like the thunder of July.
Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should.
In modern America, food is abundant everywhere except aboard commercial airplanes.
Exercise is a dirty word. Every time I hear it I wash my mouth out with chocolate.
On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners.
The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.
Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one's life.
For unknown foods, the nose acts always as a sentinal and cries. 'Who goes there?'
I simply cannot imagine why anyone would eat something slimy served in an ashtray.
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
Each sort of cheese reveals a pasture of a different green, under a different sky.
Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.
Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
Keep as near as ever you can to the first sources of supply—fruits and vegetables.
Salt and the center of the world have to be there, in that spot on the tablecloth.
Remember that a very good sardine is always preferable to a not that good lobster.
This was a good dinner enough, to be sure, but it was not a dinner to ask a man to.
I prefer milk because I am a Prohibitionist, but I do not go to it for inspiration.
Salt is the difference between eating in Technicolor and eating in black and white.
One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.