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It was a delicious meal -- skim milk, wheat middlings, leftover pancakes, half a doughnut, the rind ...

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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

Food, the stoking-up process, the keeping alive of an individual flame, the process that begins befo...

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E. M. ForsterAspects of the Novel

The best way to lose weight is to close your mouth - something very difficult for a politician. Or w...

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It is not necessary to have an extravagant food budget in order to serve things with variety and tas...

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Food cannot take care of spiritual, psychological and emotional problems, but the feeling of being l...

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Edith SchaefferThe Hidden Art of Homemaking

I am thankful I was born in America, although if I gain any more weight the burqa thing may start to...

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Many a one has been comforted in their sorrow by seeing a good dish come upon the table.

Please go to this pizzeria. Order the margherita pizza with double mozzarella. If you do not eat thi...

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I am a better person when I have less on my plate.

I had to do something about my longing, so I got up, went to the kitchen in my nightgown, peeled a p...

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Until-as often happened during those first months travel, whenever I would feel such happiness-my gu...

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I love my pizza so much, in fact, that I have come to believe in my delirium that my pizza might act...

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Parla come magni,' It means, 'Speak the way you eat,' or in my personal translation: 'Say it like yo...

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God gave our first parents the food He designed that the race should eat. It was contrary to His pla...

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Biofuels such as ethanol require enormous amounts of cropland and end up displacing either food crop...

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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.

I come from a home where gravy is a beverage.

The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are thre...

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Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's...

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Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times...

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Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the 'Titanic' who waved off the dessert cart.

I am not a glutton - I am an explorer of food

As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold...

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Ernest HemingwayA Moveable Feast

He lay back for a little in his bed thinking about the smells of food… of the intoxicating breath of...

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Simultaneously the whole party moved toward the water, super-ready from the long, forced inaction, p...

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F. Scott FitzgeraldTender Is the Night

Man in his hunger for faith will feed his mind with the nearest and most convenient food.

A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famo...

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The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and we...

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Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

People have been cooking and eating for thousands of years, so if you are the very first to have tho...

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Fran LebowitzThe Fran Lebowitz Reader

After a full belly all is poetry.

If you have food in your jaws you have solved all questions for the time being.

To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.

Nicole had put on weight. This is the effect which, in three cases out of four, unhappiness has upon...

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Great restaurants are, of course, nothing but mouth-brothels. There is no point in going to them if ...

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Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - he...

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Sex is good, but not as good as fresh sweet corn.

[Lunch] was composed of one of the fish she had caught, evidently rescued from Mogget. This had been...

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The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

...there's never a garden in all the parish but what there's endless waste in it for want o' somebod...

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Kissing don't last: cookery do !

Kissing don't last: cookery do.

Yin and yang are the left and right hands of the Infinite — creator, destroyer, and reproducer of ev...

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A human being is primarily a bag for putting food into; the other functions and faculties may be mor...

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George OrwellThe Road to Wigan Pier

A crisp roast chicken would set the world aright.

I thank you for calling them off, young ser. I promise you, they would have found me indigestible.

Whoever thought a tiny candy bar should be called fun size was a moron.

Mama grizzlies mate later than other bears. They have two cubs instead of four. They wait four years...

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I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944.

It's salt. Why don't you sprinkle some on me, honey? Aren't I just good enough to eat?

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Grant MorrisonBatman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth

We are also in the process of defining how best to work together with food and other companies to ad...

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Invest in what's real. Clean as you go. Drink while you cook. Make it fun. It doesn't have to be com...

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Gwyneth PaltrowMy Father's Daughter: Delicious

Hunger is not debatable.

She lived frugally, but her meals were the only things on which she deliberately spent her money. Sh...

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Thinking about lunch. Smoked salmon with pedigreed lettuce and razor-sharp slices of onion that have...

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When he's hot, he's hot; when he's not, he's not. But at least there is always food

There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony.

It had been agreed between them that lighted candles at wayside inns, in strange countries amid moun...

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I am proud to have been born in Iowa. Through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy, it was a place of adve...

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No family should have to depend on the labor of its children to put food on the table and no person ...

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Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

No one was irritable; we have never known anyone to remain unhappy while digesting a good meal. We e...

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Can you taste it Bruce? Can you taste the filth, the dirt, the oily blackness of that fossil fuel in...

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When I said a few weeks ago that our people would eat cooking oil and olives if necessary, I didn't ...

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Jim watched them eat, his eyes fixed on every morsel that entered their mouth. When the oldest of th...

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The fridge had been emptied of all Dudley’s favorite things — fizzy drinks and cakes, chocolate bars...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

When he heard there was nothing to eat, he sat down and wept… “Why did I ever wake up!” he cried.

The Eleven king looked sternly upon Thorin, when he was brought before him, and asked him many quest...

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Hobbits always so polite, yes! O nice hobbits! Smeagol brings them up secret ways that nobody else c...

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Smeagol won't grub for roots and carrotses and - taters. What's taters,precious, eh, what's taters?"...

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I went to sit in the bus station and think this over. I ate another apple pie and ice cream; that’sp...

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She spoke of evenings in the country making popcorn on the porch. Once this would have gladdened my ...

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Jack KerouacOn the Road

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better...

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My definition of man is a cooking animal. The beasts have memory, judgement, and the faculties and p...

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I think my attitude has always been to put food on the table.

The three of us ate a fine supper of grilled trout with sorrel cream sauce, and red potatoes out of ...

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Sitting on the porch alone, listening to them fixing supper, he felt again the indignation he had fe...

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If we could only live on good food like that, he said to her somewhat loudly, we wouldn't have the c...

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Though their life was modest, they believed in eating well.

Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, n...

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The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the...

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If you can eat with mates or friends or family, I mean, it's such a brilliant thing isn't it? If you...

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What I've enjoyed most, though, is meeting people who have a real interest in food and sharing ideas...

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Dear Eloisa (said I) there’s no occasion for your crying so much about such a trifle. (for I was wil...

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Much was said, and much was ate, and all went well.

I did this book 'Harvest for Hope,' and I learned so much about food. And one thing I learned is tha...

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Someday we shall look back on this dark era of agriculture and shake our heads. How could we have ev...

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Jane GoodallHarvest for Hope: A Guide to Mindful Eating

Food has always brought me comfort and the bingeing is triggered when I'm in a space that is not pos...

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The cucumber and the tomato are both fruit; the avocado is a nut. To assist with the dietary require...

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I won't eat what I can't kill. It seems shoddy, hypocritical.

We are not encouraged, on a daily basis, to pay careful attention to the animals we eat. On the cont...

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Jeffrey Moussaieff MassonThe Face on Your Plate: The Truth About Food

My best hostess tip is to have good food and really good music!

Jobs for every American is doomed to failure because of modern automation and production. We ought t...

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