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The longer I live, the more I am convinced that the apothecary is of more importance than Seneca; and that half the unhappiness in the world proceeds from little stoppages; from a duct choked up, from food pressing in the wrong place, from a vexed duodenum, or an agitated pylorus.

The mangosteen, queen of the tropical fruit.

The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato. The best part is underground.

The meat industry spends hundreds of millions of dollars lying to the public about their product. But no amount of false propaganda can sanitize meat. The facts are absolutely clear: Eating meat is bad for human health, catastrophic for the environment, and a living nightmare for animals

The mental disposition of the one who prepares the food is transmitted to all those who consume it. Therefore, as far as possible the mothers should do the cooking for the entire family. If it is done while chanting the mantra, the food will benefit everyone in a spiritual way.

The mere smell of cooking can evoke a whole civilization.

The most dangerous food is wedding cake.

The most important thing to remember about food labels is that you should avoid foods that have labels.

The most powerful social media... it is not the internet, it is not Facebook - it is food. This connects all human beings.

The most sincere form of love is love for food

The natural term of an apple-pie is but twelve hours. It reaches its highest state about one hour after it comes from the oven, and just before its natural heat has quite departed. But every hour afterward is a declension. And after it is one day old, it is thence-forward but the ghastly corpse of apple-pie.

Then from far away across the world he smelled good things to eat, so he gave up being king of the wild things.

The noise from good toast should reverberate in the head like the thunder of July.

The onion tribe is prophylactic and highly invigorating, and even more necessary to cookery than parsley itself.

The office of the prince and that of the writer are defined and assigned as follows: the nobleman gives rank to the written work,the writer provides food for the prince.

The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.

The only kind of seafood I trust is the fish stick, a totally featureless fish that doesn't have eyeballs or fins.

The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.

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

The origin of agriculture involved both human intentionality and a set of underlying ecological and evolutionary principles.

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.

The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.

The powder is mixed with water and tastes exactly like powder mixed with water.

The people who give you their food give you their heart.

The pleasures of the table belong to all times and ages, to every country and every day; they go hand in hand with all our other pleasures, outlast them, and remain to console us for their loss.

There are a lot of products still to be discovered in the world and experimentation, for example with seafood and fish. There are thousands of products that we're not eating right now that maybe will be cultivated in a good agriculture situation, a sustainable, ecological way. Maybe there will be textures or flavors we hadn't even thought of. In the Amazon there are 400 fruits that are not cultivated right now. They're just incredible fruits. Textures, tastes that we don't know right now.

The quest for slowness, which begins as a simple rebellion against the impoverishment of taste in our lives, makes it possible to rediscover taste.

The rat stops gnawing in the wood, the dungeon walls withdraw, the weight is lifted your pulse steadies and the sun has found your heart, the day was not bad, the season has not been bad, there is sense and even promise in going on.

the proper place to eat lobster ... is in a lobster shack as close to the sea as possible. There is no menu card because there is nothing else to eat except boiled lobster with melted butter.

The quickest way to a man's heart is through his chest.

The real, native South Seas food is lousy. You can't eat it.

There are no standards of taste in wine... Each man's own taste is the standard, and a majority vote cannot decide for him or in any slightest degree affect the supremacy of his own standard.

There are many miracles in the world to be celebrated and, for me, garlic is the most deserving.

There are two Italies.... The one is the most sublime and lovely contemplation that can be conceived by the imagination of man; the other is the most degraded, disgusting, and odious. What do you think? Young women of rank actually eat - you will never guess what - garlick! Our poor friend Lord Byron is quite corrupted by living among these people, and in fact, is going on in a way not worthy of him.

There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.

There is no one of-woman-born who does not like Red Lobster cheddar biscuits. Anyone who claims otherwise is a liar and a Socialist.

There cannot be good living where there is not good drinking.

There is a vast difference between the savage and the civilized man, but it is never apparent to their wives until after breakfast.

There is nothing better on a cold wintry day than a properly made pot pie.

There's no doctor like meat and drink.

There is no way to understand the public reaction to the sight of a Freak smashing a coconut with a hammer on the hood of a white Cadillac in a Safeway parking lot unless you actually do it, and I tell you it's tense.

There's a lot more future in hamburgers than in baseball.

There’s no sight on earth more appealing than that of a woman making dinner for someone she loves.

There is not a thing that is more positive than bread.

There is nothing like soup. It is by nature eccentric: no two are ever alike, unless of course you get your soup in a can.

There is not one kind of food for all men. You must and you will feed those faculties which you exercise. The laborer whose body is weary does not require the same food with the scholar whose brain is weary.

There is such a thing as food and such a thing as poison. But the damage done by those who pass off poison as food is far less than that done by those who generation after generation convince people that food is poison.

There's a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.

There's no sauce in the world like hunger.

There was a Young Lady of Poole, Whose soup was excessively cool; So she put it to boil, by the aid of some oil, That ingenious Young Lady of Poole.