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Half the cookbooks tell you how to cook the food and the other half tell you how to avoid eating it.
Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
To buy very good wine nowadays requires only money. To serve it to your guests is a sign of fatigue.
Breakfast cereals that come in the same colors as polyester leisure suits make oversleeping a virtue.
Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
Anytime a person goes into a delicatessen and orders a pastrami on white bread, somewhere a Jew dies.
What moistens the lip and what brightens the eye? What calls back the past like the rich pumpkin pie?
Food is a central activity of mankind and one of the single most significant trademarks of a culture.
Drunkenness is deplorably destructive, but her demurer sister Gluttony destroys a hundred to her one.
It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.
Know how to garnish food so that it is more appealing to the eye and even more flavorful than before.
Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art. It requires instinct and taste rather than exact measurements.
I will never be a skinny waif as I am physically unable to say "no" to free booze and snacks. Oh well.
Cooking is an observation-based process that you can't do if you're so completely focused on a recipe.
Custard: A detestable substance produced by a malevolent conspiracy of the hen, the cow, and the cook.
Hell, when I was growing up, I could make a meal out of a package of Top Ramen and a bottle of Windex.
Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal.
It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available.
I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.
It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.
We know that ever woman wants to be thin. Our images of womanhood are almost synonymous with thinness.
We old folks have to find our cushions and pillows in our tankards. Strong beer is the milk of the old.
Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed by the facts.
You don't have to transcend something that you have no interest in... it may come but it finds no food.
it still astounds me, after forty years, that there is no good bread between Chicago and San Francisco.
The most important thing to remember about food labels is that you should avoid foods that have labels.
It is not necessary to advertise food to hungry people, fuel to cold people, or houses to the homeless.
All food is the gift of the gods and has something of the miraculous, the egg no less than the truffle.
Well, it is a humiliating reflection, that the straightest road to a man's heart is through his palate.
There are four basic food groups: plain chocolate, milk chocolate, dark chocolate, and white chocolate.
I won't eat anything that has intelligent life, but I'd gladly eat a network executive or a politician.
The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.
Everybody loves to have things which please the palate put in their way, without trouble or preparation.
I love all kinds of bread. Whenever I crave junk food, I want salty things like peanuts or potato chips.
If any one element of French cooking can be called important, basic and essential, that element is soup.
When you find a waiter who is a waiter and not an actor, writer, musician or poet, you've found a jewel.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.
Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.
Eggs Benedict is genius. It's eggs covered in eggs. I mean, come on, that person should be the president.
It's easy for Americans to forget that the food they eat doesn't magically appear on a supermarket shelf.
The ambition of every good cook must be to make something very good with the fewest possible ingredients.
We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread.
Plant a radish, get a radish, never any doubt. That's why I love vegetables, you know what they're about!
Beer is not a good cocktail-party drink, especially in a home where you don't know where the bathroom is.
How simple life is. We buy a fish. We are fed. We sit close to each other, we talk and then we go to bed.
Desserts are like mistresses. They are bad for you. So if you are having one, you might as well have two.
[Humans] don't just survive; they discover; they create. ... I mean, just look at what they do with food!
If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.
A basic rule of baking is that, in general, it's almost impossible to make an inedible batch of brownies.
Cooking is one of the oldest arts and one which has rendered us the most important service in civic life.