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In taking soup, it is necessary to avoid lifting too much in the spoon, or filling the mouth so full as almost to stop the breath.

In that intensely busy time of children and work, soup became my stalwart friend and I learned its true value. Anyone who's been there knows. You're busy, too much to do, time vanishes, the kids are relentless, and everyone is hungry all the time. Something as comforting, delicious, and practical as soup is like gold.

In the centre of a spacious table rose a pastry as large as a church, flanked on the north by a quarter of cold veal, on the south by an enormous ham, on the east by a monumental pile of butter, and on the west by an enormous dish of artichokes, with a hot sauce.

In the hands of an able cook, fish can become an inexhaustible source of perpetual delight.

In the last analysis, a pickle is a cucumber with experience.

In the light of what Proust wrote with so mild a stimulus, it is the world's loss that he did not have a heartier appetite. On a dozen Gardiner's Island oysters, a bowl of clam chowder, a peck of steamers, some bay scallops, three sauteed soft-shelled crabs, a few ears of fresh picked corn, a thin swordfish steak of generous area, a pair of lobsters, and a Long Island Duck, he might have written a masterpiece.

In the next ten years, one of the things you're bound to hear is that animal protein is one of the most toxic nutrients of all that can be considered. Quite simply, the more you substitute plant foods for animal foods, the healthier you are likely to be.

In the orchestra of a great kitchen, the sauce chef is a soloist.

In 'The Republic' he [Plato] states that the enjoyment of food is not a true pleasure because the purpose of eating is to relieve pain - hunger.

In the United States all business not transacted over the telephone is accomplished in conjunction with alcohol or food, often under conditions of advanced intoxication. This is a fact of the utmost importance for the visitor of limited funds... for it means that the most expensive restaurants are, with rare exceptions, the worst.

In this uncertain world, the food is disposable. It is the wrappings that are permanent.

I once went out with this wild girl. She made French toast and got her tongue caught in the toaster.

I prefer milk because I am a Prohibitionist, but I do not go to it for inspiration.

...I prefer not to have among my guests two people or more, of any sex, who are in the first wild tremours of love. It is better to invite them after their new passion has settled, has solidified into a quieter reciprocity of emotions. (It is also a waste of good food, to serve it to new lovers.)

I prefer the Chinese method of eating.... You can do anything at the table except arm wrestle.

I prefer not to eat food that has a face.

I said to my wife, 'Where do you want to go for our anniversary?' She said, 'I want to go somewhere I've never been before.' I said, 'Try the kitchen.'

I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time.

I sacrifice to no god save myself - And to my belly, greatest of deities.

I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.

I really don't think I need buns of steel. I'd be happy with buns of cinnamon.

I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

I said to my friends that if I was going to starve, I might as well starve where the food is good.

I shall content myself with merely declaring my firm conviction that, for the seeker who would live in fear of God and who would see Him face to face, restraint in diet both as to quantity and quality is as essential as restraint in thought and speech.

I should have remembered that when one is going to lead an entirely new life, one requires regular and wholesome meals.

I simply cannot imagine why anyone would eat something slimy served in an ashtray.

I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?

Isn't there any other part of the matzo you can eat?

It has always pleased me to read while eating if I have no companion; it gives me the society I lack. I devour alternately a page and a mouthful; it is as though my book were dining with me.

I think Australian food is probably some of the best in the world.

I think vegetarians - for a lot of them - it's about a lack of commitment to life and relationships. There are some who just like the fact that they're controlling something in their life.

I think I could eat one of Bellamy's veal pies.

I think we all live in a world that is so fast-paced, it's threatening and absolutely saturated with change and novelty and insecurity. Therefore, the ritual of cooking and feeding my family and friends, whoever drops in, is what makes me feel that I'm in a universe that is contained.

I think if you want to eat more meat you should kill it yourself and eat it raw so that you are not blinded by the hypocrisy of having it processed for you.

I think the great Mexican cuisine is dying because there are fast foods now competing, because there are supermarkets, and supermarkets can't afford to keep in stock a lot of these very perishable products that are used for fine Mexican cooking. Women are working and real Mexican cooking requires enormous amounts of time.

It is a curious fact that no man likes to call himself a glutton, and yet each of us has in him a trace of gluttony, potential or actual. I cannot believe that there exists a single coherent human being who will not confess, at least to himself, that once or twice he has stuffed himself to bursting point on anything from quail financiere to flapjacks, for no other reason than the beastlike satisfaction of his belly.

It is always wise to make too much potato salad. Even if you are cooking for two, make enough for five. Potato salad improves with age - that is, if you are lucky enough to have any left over.

It is agreed by most men, that the Eele is a most daintie fish; the Romans have esteemed her the Helena of their feasts, and some The Queen of pleasure.

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

It is an oldish question, but not perhaps a very interesting one, whether cooking is an art or not.

It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.

It is as bad as bad can be: it is ill-fed, ill-killed, ill-kept, and ill-drest.

It is easier to change a man's religion than to change his diet.

It is contrary to the will of God to eat delicate food hastily.

It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.

It is a very poor consolation to be told that the man who has given one a bad dinner, or poor wine, is irreproachable in private life. Even the cardinal virtues cannot atone for half-cold entrees.

It is ludicrous to read the microwave direction on the boxes of food you buy, as each one will have a disclaimer: THIS WILL VARY WITH YOUR MICROWAVE. Loosely translated, this means, You're on your own, Bernice.

It is harder to be unhappy when you are eating.

It is odd how all men develop the notion, as they grow older, that their mothers were wonderful cooks. I have yet to meet a man who will admit that his mother was a kitchen assassin and nearly poisoned him.

It is not 'only' food, I said heatedly. There's meaning hidden underneath each dish.