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The American does not drink at meals as a sensible man should. Indeed, he has no meals. He stuffs for ten minutes thrice a day.

The American poultry industry had made it possible to grow a fine-looking fryer in record time and sell it at a reasonable price, but no one mentioned that the result usually tasted like the stuffing inside of a teddy bear.

...the avocado is a food without rival among the fruits, the veritable fruit of paradise

The beet is the most intense of vegetables. The radish, admittedly, is more feverish, but the fire of the radish is a cold fire, the fire of discontent, not of passion. Tomatoes are lusty enough, yet there runs through tomatoes an undercurrent of frivolity. Beets are deadly serious.

The belly is the giver of genius.

The best number for a dinner party is two; myself and a damn good head waiter.

The best poet is the man who delivers our daily bread: the local baker.

The best way to eat crabs, as everyone knows, is off newspaper at a large table with a large number of people.

The British hamburger thus symbolised, with savage neatness, the country's failure to provide its ordinary people with food which did anything more for them than sustain life.

The camembert with its venison scent defeats the Marolles and Limbourg dull smells; It spreads its exhalation, smothering the other scents under its surprising breath abundance.

The captain has just turned on the fasten-seat-belt-sign. He didn't mean to, but the joint he was smoking fell in his lap, and when he jumped up, his head hit the switch.

The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man.

The codfish is a staple food For which I'm seldom in the mood. This fish is such an utter loss That people eat it with egg sauce.

The dinner table is the center for the teaching and practicing not just of table manners but of conversation, consideration, tolerance, family feeling, and just about all the other accomplishments of polite society except the minuet.

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in our health, or we suffer in our soul, or we get fat.

The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star.

The disparity between a restaurant's price and food quality rises in direct proportion to the size of the pepper mill.

The doctrine of foods is of great ethical and political significance. Food becomes blood, blood becomes heart and brain, thoughts and mind stuff. Human fare is the foundation of human culture and thought. Would you improve a nation? Give it, instead of declamations against sin, better food. Man is what he eats [Der Mensch ist, was er isst].

The dinosaurs's eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good, an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better.

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

The duty of a good Cuisinier is to transmit to the next generation everything he has learned and experienced.

The English have only three sauces - a white one, a brown one and a yellow one, and none of them have any flavor whatever.

The egg creams of Avenue A in New York and the root beer float....are among the high points of American gastronomic inventiveness.

The fast-food industry is in very good company with the lead industry and the tobacco industry in how it tries to mislead the public, and how aggressively it goes after anybody who criticizes its business practices.

The fine arts are five in number, namely: painting, sculpture, poetry, music, and architecture, the principal branch of the latter being pastry.

The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it's bad for you.

The first printed mention of bagels... is to be found in the Community Regulations of Kracow, Poland, for the year 1610 which stated that bagels would be given as a gift to any woman in childbirth.

The food of thy soul is light and space; feed it then on light and space. But the food of thy body is champagne and oysters; feed it then on champagne and oysters; and so shall it merit a joyful resurrection, if there is any to be.

The first time I ate organic whole-grain bread I swear it tasted like roofing material.

The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small.

The first zucchini I ever saw I killed it with a hoe.

The food you eat can either be the safest and most powerful form of medicine, or the slowest form of poison

The friendly cow, all red and white, I love with all my heart; She gives me cream with all her might, To eat with apple-tart.

The French fried potato has become an inescapable horror in almost every public eating place in the country. 'French fries', say the menus, but they are not French fries any longer. They are a furry-textured substance with the taste of plastic wood.

The French use cooking as a means of self-expression, and this meal perfectly represented the personality of a cook who had spent the morning resting her unwashed chin on the edge of a tureen, pondering whether she should end her life immediately by plunging her head into her abominable soup.

The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.

The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me and I to them.

The greatest change we need to make is from consumption to production, even if on a small scale, in our own gardens. If only 10% of us do this, there is enough for everyone. Hence the futility of revolutionaries who have no gardens, who depend on the very system they attack, and who produce words and bullets, not food and shelter.

The hippopotamus is a vegetarian and looks like a wall. Lions who eat only red meat are sleek and slim. Are nutritionists on the wrong track?

The Highlanders regale themselves with whisky. They find it an excellent preservation against the winter cold. It is given with great success to the infants in the confluent smallpox.

The history of government regulation of food safety is one of government watchdogs chasing the horse after it's out of the barn.

The Infusion of a China plant sweetened with the pith of an Indian Cane.

The Italians were eating with forks when the French were still eating each other.

The key dietary messages are stunningly simple: Eat less, move more, eat more fruits and vegetables, and don't eat too much junk food. It's no more complicated than that.

The juice of the grape is the liquid quintessence of concentrated sunbeams.

The kitchen, reasonably enough, was the scene of my first gastronomic adventure. I was on all fours. I crawled into the vegetable bin, settled on a giant onion and ate it, skin and all. It must have marked me for life, for I have never ceased to love the hearty flavor of raw onions.

The kitchen is the great laboratory of the household, and much of the 'weal and woe' as far as regards bodily health, depends on the nature of the preparations concocted within its walls.

The last taste of sweets is sweetest last.

The mere smell of cooking can evoke a whole civilization.

The mangosteen, queen of the tropical fruit.