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And not wretched sausages half full of bread and soya bean either, but real meaty, spicy ones, fat a...

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Because a superior fried-chicken restaurant is often the institutional extension of a single chicken...

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The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but...

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Health food makes me sick.

Daddy, how come in Kansas City the bagels taste like just round bread?

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Calvin TrillinFeeding a Yen: Savoring Local Specialties

In the rather informal survey I have taken over the years on intensity of interest in food by profes...

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Calvin TrillinThe Tummy Trilogy: American Fried; Alice

We have a predator that came from the depths of the cosmos and took over the rule of our lives. Huma...

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I'm girlie in the sense that I like makeup, but I also love sports and man food.

people who eat 3 meals a day throughout lifehave never reallytastedFood...

Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.

I went to the kitchen and felt-up the turkey.

We have had for breakfast, toasts, cakes, a yorkshire pie, a piece of beef about the size and much t...

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On this matter I'm inclined to agree with the French, who gaze upon any personal dietary prohibition...

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Charles DickensA Tale of Two Cities

His high spiced wares were made to sell, and they sold; and his thousands of readers could as ration...

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I remember an hypothesis argued upon by the young students, when I was at St. Omer's, and maintained...

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All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.

How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?

This kind of mixing of ingredients happens all the time at fast-food places... You know when you ord...

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No man is lonely while eating spaghetti - it requires so much attention.

No man is lonely while eating spaghetti:it requires so much attention.

A woman eats to feed her pussy." Meaning: Anything we do to excess is in compensation for not gettin...

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Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.

The tantrums of cloth-headed celluloid idols are deemed fit for grown-up conversation, while silence...

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She had witnessed in nauseating detail how the human world worked: its rituals of comfort (televisio...

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Harry had worked his way through the American Dream and come to the conclusion that is was composed ...

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Thanks cows. I appreciate your tastiness.

Twas the night before Thanksgiving. All the food's in the oven. And I'm in the bedroom performin' se...

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Not only did he unleash his emotions through rivers of tears, but for several days he denied his bod...

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

You've never really know what it's like to trust God to provide for you today, because you've got to...

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

I think future engineered species could be the source of food, hopefully a source of energy, environ...

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The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life.

He toasted his bacon on a fork and caught the drops of fat on his bread; then he put the rasher on h...

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I basically have the diet of a 19th-century Irish navy, apart from the litre of stout a day. It's me...

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Those dripping crumpets, I can see them now. Tiny crisp wedges of toast, and piping-hot, flaky scone...

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The reason is that you eat too many foods that are high in "calories," which are little units that m...

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Dave BarryDave Barry's Guide to Life

There’s less need to slowly acclimate these guys to the tank,” Bailey said. “They’ll be food pretty ...

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It's coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It's not just climate change; it's sheer spa...

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'Star Trek' is the McDonald's of science fiction; it's fast food storytelling. Every problem is like...

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We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.

The potatoes were starch grenades. The canned carrots were revolting because that is their nature.

For as long as I can remember, my father saved. He saves money, he saves disfigured sticks that rese...

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Shergahn and friend lay like poleaxed steers, and the Daranfelian's greasy hair was thick with potat...

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Although he never speaks of how or what or why, I know that his childhood was difficult, that his pa...

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When I get a little money I buy books and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

In our heart we know that life loves life. Yet we feast on some of the other life-forms with which w...

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Diane AckermanA Natural History of the Senses

I love Indian, Italian and Mexican food. And if it's a romantic type of thing, I like a good French ...

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I will not eat them in a house, i will not eat them with a mouse,i will not eat them in a box i will...

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Dr. SeussGreen Eggs and Ham

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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