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    Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.

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    Wine enlivens the human soul.

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    WINE, n.Fermented grape-juice known to the Women's Christian Union as "liquor," sometimes as "rum." Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man.

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    Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.

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    Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a dread of the company has repressed. It only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

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    Wine is a splendid thing in and of itself, but it is nonetheless proper to examine the high nutritional and hygienic values of wine from a scientific point of view. We are convinced that scientists will thus perform a service to mankind, since at the same time they will help determine the measure beyond which its use is a misuse for all creation.

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    Wine is bottled poetry.

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    Wine, one of the noblest cordials in nature.

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    Wine from long habit has become an indispensable for my health

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    Wine is a successful effort to translate the perishable into the permanent.

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    Without peanuts, it isn't a cocktail party.

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    With enough butter, anything is good

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    Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

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    Women alone always order sole. It means something.

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    Without butter, without eggs, there is no reason to come to France.

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    Without wishing in the slightest degree to disparage the skill and labour of breadmakers by trade, truth compels us to assert our conviction of the superior wholesomeness of bread made in our own homes.

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    You ask me how, with so much study, I manage to retene my health. Morpheus is my last companion; without 8 or 9 hours of him yr correspondent is not worth one scavenger's peruke. My practices did at ye first hurt my stomach, but now I eat heartily enou' as y' will see when I come down beside you.

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    You can go a month without food, you can live three days without water, but you can't go more then sixty seconds without HOPE.

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    Yes. I didn't think there were any witnesses, so I guess I'll have to kill you too.

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    Yogi ordered a pizza. The waitress asked How many pieces do you want your pie cut? Yogi responded, Four. I don't think I could eat eight.

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    You can never have enough garlic. With enough garlic, you can eat The New York Times.

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    You could probably get through life without knowing how to roast a chicken, but the question is, would you want to?

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    You can travel fifty thousand miles in America without once tasting a piece of good bread.

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    You cannot sell a blemished apple in the supermarket, but you can sell a tasteless one provided it is shiny, smooth, even, uniform and bright.

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    You first parents of the human race...who ruined yourself for an apple, what might you have done for a truffled turkey?

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    You have to eat to cook. You can't be a good cook and be a noneater. I think eating is the secret to good cooking.

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    You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism.

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    You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

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    You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.

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    21Most food goes to waste in affluent societies. When we throw leftovers into the garbage, it goes to waste. When we eat more food than we need, it goes to waist.

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    A big reason for optimism about the end of animal farming is that it doesn't have to be the end of meat.

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    Abignades or abegnades A term used in te department of the Landes for the intestines of a goose cooked in its blood. Abegnades are found almost solely in the chalosse region, where they are eaten on bread fried in goose fat, with slices of lemon.

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    a better taste deserve a better place

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    Aboard the gondola, Giacomo Foscarini sat facing Mathias. They were crossing the Canal Grande, then they would navigate around San Marco and return. Foscarini loved to travel around Venice this way. They stopped briefly at a mooring near the bridge to the Rialto, and Foscarini had a servant fetch green olives, fresh Piacenza cheese, a few sausages from Modena, and wine that had just been delivered from Crete. The nobleman often dined aboard his gondola, looking out over the city, watching his world. "Seen from this vantage point, Venice doesn't seem like it's in any of its terrible troubles at all magister," said Foscarini.

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    A burnt and experienced hands are more important than the vessels in the kitchen.

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    A casserole of oxtail and prunes. This gives a perfect quantity for two. I would have done the recipe for four, but can't imagine ever getting four oxtail-loving people around the table at the same time.

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    According to analyses conducted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 100 grams of fresh tomato today has 30 percent less vitamin C, 30 percent less thiamin, 19 percent less niacin, and 62 percent less calcium than it did in the 1960s. But the modern tomato does shame it's counterpart in one area: It contains fourteen times as much sodium.

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    A chilled pea soup of insane simplicity, garnished with creme fraiche and celery leaves. Roasted beet salad with poached pears and goat cheese. Rack of lamb wrapped in crispy prosciutto, served over a celery root and horseradish puree, with sautéed spicy black kale. A thin-as-paper apple galette with fig glaze. Everything turned out brilliantly, including Patrick, who roused himself as I was pulling the lamb from the oven to rest before carving. He disappeared into the bathroom for ten minutes and came out shiny; green pallor and under-eye bags gone like magic. Pink with health and vitality, polished and ridiculously handsome, he looked as if he could run a marathon, and I was gobsmacked. He came up behind me just as I was finishing his port sauce for the lamb with a sprinkle of honey vinegar and a bit of butter, the only changes I made to any of his recipes, finding the sauce without them a bit one-dimensional and in need of edge smoothing.

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    A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.

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    Adam is definitely said to be vegetarian and not only that but even after the fall, Adam is seen as one who did not even covet flesh! Mankind eating flesh did not even enter the picture according to Genesis until Noah after the deluge. [...] The domestic cat would be at a loss to understand this herbivores' delight as being a paradise designed for it. This is because to the cat descended from African wild cats circa 8000 BCE in the Middle East would find it nearly impossible to believe it as true.

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    Addiction brings apathy. Break the apathy, and you break the addiction.

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    A dessert without cheese is like a beautiful woman with no heart.

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    Adjust your mentality to make veggies a centrepiece of your meals and snacks. Get comfortable with occasionally consuming larger quantities than typical Western diet traditions call for.

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    You do not sew with a fork and I see no reason why you should eat with knitting needles.

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    After a while I got hungry and went to the kitchen. There was nothing to eat. I drank another beer and looked again, and found half a loaf of whole wheat bread behind the beer in the back of the refrigerator...

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    ...after rare beef and wine, when the lobes turn red, was the time to ask favours or tell bad news.

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    A full fridge is like an empty one: What am I going to eat?

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    Agnes walked in with a tray of gorgeous raspberry tortes, fruit sorbet, and pistachio ice.

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    A good meal soothes the soul as it regenerates the body. From the abundance of it flows a benign benevolence.

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    A good motto in life, he'd reckoned, was: don't eat anything that glows.