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My illness is due to my doctor's insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies.
It might seem that an egg which has succeeded in being fresh has done all that can reasonably be expected of it.
Roast Beef, Medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy. ... Roast Beef, Medium, is safe, and sane, and sure.
All food starting with p is comfort food: pasta, potato chips, pretzels, peanut butter, pastrami, Pizza, pastry.
Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.
I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning.
There's no such thing as a tough child - if you parboil them first for seven hours, they always come out tender.
The onion tribe is prophylactic and highly invigorating, and even more necessary to cookery than parsley itself.
Self restraint in speech, food, entertainment and vanity are the most essential fundamental of spiritual growth.
Food: Part of the spiritual expression of the French, and I do not believe that they have ever heard of calories.
I like spaghetti because you don't have to take your eyes off the book to pick about among it, it's all the same.
Of all the items on the menu, soup is that which exacts the most delicate perfection and the strictest attention.
Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.
I had arrived at the airport one hour early so that, in accordance with airline procedures, I could stand around.
On spinach: I dislike it, and am happy to dislike it because if I liked it I would eat it, and I cannot stand it.
Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.
I don't go for the nouvelle approach - serving a rabbit rump with coffee extract sauce and a slice of kiwi fruit.
A dressing is not a compote A dressing is not a custard It consists of pepper and salt, Vinegar, oil and mustard.
Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
Dried peas and beans, being rather on the dull side, much like dull people respond readily to the right contacts.
The truffle is not a positive aphrodisiac, but it can upon occasion make women tenderer and men more apt to love.
Smell and taste are in fact but a single composite sense, whose laboratory is the mouth and its chimney the nose.
Gourmandise is an impassioned, rational, and habitual preference for all objects which flatter the sense of taste.
In general, I think, human beings are happiest at table when they are very young, very much in love or very alone.
You have to eat to cook. You can't be a good cook and be a noneater. I think eating is the secret to good cooking.
But since he stood for England And knew what England means, Unless you give him bacon You must not give him beans.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato. The best part is underground.
Hamburger steak is carrion, and quite unfit for food except by a turkey buzzard, a hyena, or some other scavenger.
I doubt whether the world holds for any one a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice-cream.
If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.
Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.
The only kind of seafood I trust is the fish stick, a totally featureless fish that doesn't have eyeballs or fins.
My grandfather had a wonderful funeral... On the buffet table there was a replica of the deceased in potato salad.
There is something in the red of a raspberry pie that looks as good to a man as the red in a sheep looks to a wolf.
The act of putting into your mouth what the earth has grown is perhaps your most direct interaction with the earth.
Next to jazz music, there is nothing that lifts the spirit and strengthens the soul more than a good bowl of chili.
Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
To be tempted and indulged by the city's most brilliant chefs. It's the dream of every one of us in love with food.
When the waitress puts the dinner on the table, the old men look at the dinner. The young men look at the waitress.
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.
A philosopher is a person who doesn't care which side his bread is buttered on; he knows he eats both sides anyway.
You could probably get through life without knowing how to roast a chicken, but the question is, would you want to?
Older women are like aging strudels - the crust may not be so lovely, but the filling has come at last into its own.
If there's anything I like better than honey and ketchup, it's baloney and whipped cream --- and we haven't got any!
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.
Among the faithful, in the great kitchens of the world, Escoffier is to Careme what the New Testament is to the Old.
Compilers resemble gluttonous eaters who devour excessive quantities of healthy food just to excrete them as refuse.
Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.
Said Aristotle unto Plato, 'Have another sweet potato?' Said Plato unto Aristotle, 'Thank you, I prefer the bottle.'
Sorry, there´s no magic bullet. You gotta eat healthy and live healthy to be healthy and look healthy. End of story.