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When I develop my recipes I always look for ways to create what I call the Big Taste. While I enjoy eating simple grilled foods, what interests me when I cook are dishes with a taste that is fully dimensional.

When I eat with my friends, it is a moment of real pleasure, when I really enjoy my life.

When I ponder my mind I consistently find It is glued On food.

When it comes to food, there are two large categories of eaters, those who do not worry about what they eat but should, and those who do worry about what they eat but should not.

When I was a young fellow I was knocked down plenty. I wanted to stay down, but I couldn't. I had to collect the two dollars for winning or go hungry. I had to get up. I was one of those hungry fighters. You could have hit me on the chin with a sledgehammer for five dollars. When you haven't eaten for two days you'll understand.

When I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and it is all one.

When there are starving people in the world, it seems wrong that so many of us Americans eat as much for entertainment as for nourishment.

When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can't eat money.

When there is very little else left to believe in, one can still believe in an honest loaf of fragrant, home-baked bread.

When the wine is in, the wit is out.

When my mother had to get dinner for 8 she'd just make enough for 16 and only serve half.

When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.

When the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface

When the waitress puts the dinner on the table, the old men look at the dinner. The young men look at the waitress.

When the wine goes in, strange things come out.

When the waitress asked if I wanted my pizza cut into four or eight slices, I said, 'Four. I don't think I can eat eight.'

When we develop reverence for food and the miracle of transformation inherent in it, just the simple act of eating creates a ritual of celebration.

When we lose, I eat. When we win, I eat. I also eat when we're rained out.

When you become a good cook, you become a good craftsman, first. You repeat and repeat and repeat until your hands know how to move without thinking about it.

When you find a waiter who is a waiter and not an actor, writer, musician or poet, you've found a jewel.

Who's your fat friend ?

"When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last, "what's the first thing you say to yourself?" "What's for breakfast?" said Pooh. "What do you say, Piglet?" "I say, I wonder what's going to happen exciting today?" said Piglet . Pooh nodded thoughtfully. "It's the same thing," he said. "What's that?" the Unbeliever asked. "Wisdom from the Western Taoist,"I said. "It sounds like something from Winnie-the-Pooh," he said. "It is," I said. "That's not about Taoism," he said. "Oh, yes it is," I said.

While eating, our attention should not be focused just on the taste. Imagine our chosen deity or guru is present within us and that we are feeding Him. This will turn eating into a spiritual practice.

While it is undeniably true that people love a surprise, it is equally true that they are seldom pleased to suddenly and without warning happen upon a series of prunes in what they took to be a normal loin of pork.

"Who is secure in all his basic needs? Who has work, spiritual care, medical care, housing, food, occasional entertainment, free clothing, free burial, free everything? The answer might be nuns and monks, but the standard reply is 'prisoners'

Whosoever says truffle, utters a grand word, which awakens erotic and gastronomic ideas.

When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.

Whether you change the linen or stitch up wounds, cook the food or dispense the medicines, it is in your hands to help build a public service worthy of all those who gave their lives for the dream of democracy

While the demand for organic food outstrips supply, we happen to know that 77 percent of consumers don't want genetically engineered crops grown in this country. Consumers can choose whether or not to buy organic produce. Genetically modified ingredients will deny us choice in the long run.

Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world.

Who riseth from a feast With that keen appetite that he sits down?

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

Wine enlivens the human soul.

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

With enough butter, anything is good

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.

Wine, one of the noblest cordials in nature.

Wine from long habit has become an indispensable for my health

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

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.

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.

Wine is bottled poetry.

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

Without peanuts, it isn't a cocktail party.

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

Women alone always order sole. It means something.

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.

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.

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

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.