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Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.

Leave the eggs to bathe for 15 minutes in the hot water like a sexy Swedish chick in a natural mineral sauna.

Lentils are friendly - the Miss Congeniality of the bean world.

Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means.

Let the revolting distinction of rich and poor disappear once and for all, the distinction of great and small, of masters and valets, of governors and governed. Let there be no other differences between human beings than those of age and sex. Since all have the same needs and the same faculties, let there be one education for all, one food for all.

Let us candidly admit that there are shameful blemishes on the American past, of which the worst by far is rum. Nevertheless, we have improved man's lot and enriched his civilization with rye, bourbon and the Martini cocktail. In all history has any other nation done so much?

Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.

Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.

Life is a combination of magic and pasta.

Life... is like a grapefruit. Well, it's sort of orangey-yellow and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, too. Oh, and some people have half a one for breakfast.

Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it.

Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each. Let them be your only diet drink and botanical medicines.

Love and sausage are alike. Can never have enough of either.

Liza poured thick batter from a pitcher onto a soapstone griddle. The hot cakes rose like little hassocks, and small volcanoes formed and erupted on them until they were ready to be turned. A cheerful brown, they were, with tracings of darker brown. And the kitchen was full of the good sweet smell of them.

Look, there's no metaphysics on earth but chocolates.

Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!

Look at airport security now. What started out as definite racial profiling is now where the computer picks a name. That's why you get a seven-month-old getting a pat down. [Imitates a security officer.] "Check the diapers. They're full.

Looks can be deceiving; it's eating that's believing.

Love is an ice cream sundae, with all the marvelous coverings. Sex is the cherry on top.

Man is a carnivorous production, And must have meals, at least one meal a day; He cannot live, like woodcocks, upon suction, But, like the shark and tiger, must have prey; Although his anatomical construction Bears vegetables, in a grumbling way, Your laboring people think beyond all question, Beef, veal, and mutton better for digestion.

Lyon is full of temperamental gourmets, eternally engaged in a never-ending search for that imaginary, perfect, unknown little back-street bistro, where one can dine in the style of Louis XIV for the price of a pack of peanuts.

Lucy took a single plain donut from the bag and held it for me to take a bite. Tender and light and still warm from the frying. Not too sugary.

Make food a very incidental part of your life by filling your life so full of meaningful things that you'll hardly have time to think about food.

Man does not live by bread alone, even presliced bread.

Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.

Man shall not live by bread alone.

MANNA, n. A food miraculously given to the Israelites in the wilderness. When it was no longer supplied to them they settled down and tilled the soil, fertilizing it, as a rule, with the bodies of the original occupants.

McDonald's announced that it's considering a more humane way of slaughtering its animals. You know they fatten them up and then kill them. You know the same thing they do to their customers, isn't it?

Maybe you know why a child can reject a hot dog with mustard served on a soft bun at home, yet eat six of them two hours later at fifty cents each.

Meat is a status dish in which the sizzle counts for more than the nutritional worth.

Marmalade in the morning has the same effect on taste buds that a cold shower has on the body.

McDonald's being the official restaurant of the Olympics is like smoking being the official medicine of cancer.

Mellow nuts have the hardest rind.

Mine eyes smell onions: I shall weep anon.

Memory. My poison, my food.

More people will die from hit-or-miss eating than from hit-and-run driving.

Molded salads are best served in situations where they have little or no competition ... Like television, gelatin is too often a vehicle for limp leftovers that couldn't make it anywhere else.

Monsieur,' Madame d'Arestel, Superior of the convent of the Visitation at Belley, once said to me more than fifty years ago, 'whenever you want to have a really good cup of chocolate, make it the day before, in a porcelain coffeepot, and let it set. The night's rest will concentrate it and give it a velvety quality which will make it better. Our good God cannot possibly take offense at this little refinement, since he himself is everything that is most perfect.

More than any other in Western Europe, Britain remains a country where a traveler has to think twice before indulging in the ordinary food of ordinary people.

Most dear actors, eat no onions nor garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath.

Moderation. Small helpings. Sample a little bit of everything. These are the secrets of happiness and good health.

More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.

Most importantly, what you get from a greasy spoon is a certain kind of smell that has been almost legislated out of existence. It is cigaretty, certainly, and it also has the catch-throat quality of smoking fat. It is a warm, companionable fug that rises to meet you as you step through the door on a late autumn day and it is how public places used to smell in my childhood in the 1970s. It is real, it is human, and it beats anything I know.

Most vegetarians I ever see looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals.

Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.

Mothers and grandmothers: these are the people that I admire most, not so much chefs.

Motto of the U.S. airline industry - "We're Hoping to Have a Motto Announcement in About an Hour.

Mother's words of wisdom: Answer me! Don't talk with food in your mouth!

Mrs. Schneiderman's theory of life was that earth held no sorrow that food could not heal.

Mustard's no good without roast beef.