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Never trust a skinny cook.

Never trust the food in a restaurant on top of the tallest building in town that spends a lot of time folding napkins.

News is like food: it is the cooking and serving that makes it acceptable, not the material itself.

Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.

Next to jazz music, there is nothing that lifts the spirit and strengthens the soul more than a good bowl of chili.

No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means.

No dish changes quite so much from season to season as soup. Summer's soups come chilled, in pastel colors strewn with herbs. If hot they are sheer insubstantial broths afloat with seafood. In winter they turn steaming and thick to serve with slabs of rustic, crusty bread.

No, I don't take soup. You can't build a meal on a lake.

No man under forty can be dignified with the title of gourmet.

No matter how thin you slice it it's still baloney.

No mean woman can cook well. It calls for a generous spirit, a light hand, and a large heart.

Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, so is the ballet.

Noodles are not only amusing but delicious.

No one ever went to their deathbed saying, 'You know, I wish I'd eaten more rice cakes.

No poems can please long or live that are written by water drinkers.

Nothing helps scenery like bacon and eggs.

Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.

Nothing spoils lunch any quicker than a rogue meatball rampaging through your spaghetti.

Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.

Not responding is a response - we are equally responsible for what we don't do.

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

Numbers written on restaurant bills within the confines of restaurants do not follow the same mathematical laws as numbers written on any other pieces of paper in any other parts of the Universe. This single fact took the scientific world by storm.

Oats. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.

Of all smells, bread; of all tastes, salt.

Of plants tomatoes seemed the most human, eager and fragile and prone to rot.

Of course I made many boo-boos. At first this broke my heart, but then I came to understand that learning how to fix one's mistakes, or live with them, was an important part of becoming a cook.

Of all the items on the menu, soup is that which exacts the most delicate perfection and the strictest attention.

Of course we do not live in order to eat, but it is not really true to say that we eat in order to live; we eat because we are hungry. Desire has no further intentions behind it... it is a good will.

Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic - that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas. and that of dust, soft and warm and caressing like tweed.

One of the greatest pleasures of my life has been that I have never stopped learning about Good Cooking and Good Food

Older women are like aging strudels - the crust may not be so lovely, but the filling has come at last into its own.

One man's Poison Ivy is another Fellow's Spinach.

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

One of the most disturbing ways that climate change is already playing out is through what ecologists call "mismatch" or "mistiming." This is the process whereby warming causes animals to fall out of step with a critical food source, particularly at breeding times, when a failure to find enough food can lead to rapid population losses.

Omit and substitute! That's how recipes should be written. Please don't ever get so hung up on published recipes that you forget that you can omit and substitute.

Once you become an elaborate and well-developed culture, anything from Rome or the Etruscans, for that matter, the food starts to become a representation of what the culture is. When the food can transcend being just fuel, that's when you start to see these different permutations.

One may live without bread, not without roses.

One of these nuts is a meal for a man, both meat and drink.

One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

One sits the whole day at the desk and appetite is standing next to me. "Away with you," I say. But Comrade Appetite does not budge from the spot.

One whiff of a savory aromatic soup and appetites come to attention. The steaming fragrance of a tempting soup is a prelude to the goodness to come. An inspired soup puts family and guests in a receptive mood for enjoying the rest of the menu.

One who goes after the taste of the tongue does not get to know the taste of the heart.

Onions can make even Heirs and Widows weep.

On how to make an egg roll: "Roll it nice and tight like a blunt.

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

[On peanut M&Ms:] It is the eggness of them. A shell, chocolate placenta, proteiny peanut baby. Life shape, birth shape, cell shape, protoplasmic-ooze shape. A shape that calls straight through civilization to our reptilian brains.

On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners.

On Thanksgiving, you realize you're living in a modern world. Millions of turkeys baste themselves in millions of ovens that clean themselves.