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Maybe you know why a child can reject a hot dog with mustard served on a soft bun at home, yet eat six of them two hours later at fifty cents each.

McDonald's announced that it's considering a more humane way of slaughtering its animals. You know they fatten them up and then kill them. You know the same thing they do to their customers, isn't it?

McDonald's being the official restaurant of the Olympics is like smoking being the official medicine of cancer.

Meat is a status dish in which the sizzle counts for more than the nutritional worth.

Mellow nuts have the hardest rind.

Memory. My poison, my food.

Mine eyes smell onions: I shall weep anon.

Moderation. Small helpings. Sample a little bit of everything. These are the secrets of happiness and good health.

Molded salads are best served in situations where they have little or no competition ... Like television, gelatin is too often a vehicle for limp leftovers that couldn't make it anywhere else.

Monsieur,' Madame d'Arestel, Superior of the convent of the Visitation at Belley, once said to me more than fifty years ago, 'whenever you want to have a really good cup of chocolate, make it the day before, in a porcelain coffeepot, and let it set. The night's rest will concentrate it and give it a velvety quality which will make it better. Our good God cannot possibly take offense at this little refinement, since he himself is everything that is most perfect.

More people will die from hit-or-miss eating than from hit-and-run driving.

More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.

More than any other in Western Europe, Britain remains a country where a traveler has to think twice before indulging in the ordinary food of ordinary people.

Most dear actors, eat no onions nor garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath.

Most importantly, what you get from a greasy spoon is a certain kind of smell that has been almost legislated out of existence. It is cigaretty, certainly, and it also has the catch-throat quality of smoking fat. It is a warm, companionable fug that rises to meet you as you step through the door on a late autumn day and it is how public places used to smell in my childhood in the 1970s. It is real, it is human, and it beats anything I know.

Most vegetarians I ever see looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals.

Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.

Mother's words of wisdom: Answer me! Don't talk with food in your mouth!

Motto of the U.S. airline industry - "We're Hoping to Have a Motto Announcement in About an Hour.

Mothers and grandmothers: these are the people that I admire most, not so much chefs.

My good health is due to a soup made of white doves. It is simply wonderful as a tonic.

Mrs. Schneiderman's theory of life was that earth held no sorrow that food could not heal.

Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.

Mustard's no good without roast beef.

My friend asked me if I wanted a frozen banana. I said 'No, but I want a regular banana later, so... yeah.'

My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.

My family dumplings are sleek and seductive, yet stout and masculine. They taste of meat, yet of flour. They are wet, yet they are dry. They have weight, but they are light. Airy, yet substantial. Earth, air, fire, water; velvet and elastic! Meat, wheat and magic! They are our family glory!

My favorite sandwich is peanut butter, baloney, cheddar cheese, lettuce, and mayonnaise on toasted bread with catsup on the side.

My grandfather had a wonderful funeral... On the buffet table there was a replica of the deceased in potato salad.

My idea of fast food is a mallard.

My manner of living is plain and I do not mean to be put out of it. A glass of wine and a bit of mutton are always ready.

My kitchen is a mystical place, a kind of temple for me. It is a place where the surfaces seem to have significance, where the sounds and odors carry meaning that transfers from the past and bridges to the future.

My mother didn't really cook. But she did make key lime pie, until the day the top of the evaporated milk container accidentally ended up in the pie and she decided cooking took too much concentration.

My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.

My soul is dark with stormy riot: directly traced over to diet.

My only regret in life is that I did not drink more wine.

My philosophy from day one is that I can sleep better at night if I can improve an individual's knowledge about food and wine, and do it on a daily basis.

My son would walk to the refrigerator-freezer and fling both doors open and stand there until the hairs in his nose iced up. After surveying $200 worth of food in varying shapes and forms, he would declare loudly, 'There's nothing to eat!'

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry gets the best of the argument.

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.

My wife is on a new diet. Coconuts and bananas. She hasn't lost weight, but can she climb a tree.

Nature shrinks as capital grows. The growth of the market cannot solve the very crisis it creates.

Nature was indeed at her artistic best when she created the nutmeg, a delight to the eye in all its avatars, from the completely garbed to nudity.

Never eat Chinese food in Oklahoma.

Never commit yourself to a cheese without having first examined it.

My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order.

Nature will castigate those who don't masticate.

Never eat in a place called 'Mom's'.

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.