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If the soup had been as warm as the wine; if the wine had been as old as the turkey; and if the turkey had had a breast like the maid, it would have been a swell dinner.

If this was adulthood the only improvement she could detect in her situation was that she could now eat dessert without eating her vegetables.

If we have some pet animals, we should feed them also before taking our food. Perceive God in every living being and feed them with that attitude.

If we're not willing to settle for junk living, we certainly shouldn't settle for junk food.

If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.

If you are what you eat then feed me dope.

If you could make a pudding wi' thinking o' the batter, it 'ud be easy getting dinner.

If you don't love life you can't enjoy an oyster; there is a shock of freshness to it and intimations of the ages of man, some piercing intuition of the sea and all its weeds and breezes. [They] shiver you for a split second.

If you find an Australian indoors, it's a fair bet that he will have a glass in his hand.

If you have formed the habit of checking on every new diet that comes along, you will find that, mercifully, they all blur together, leaving you with only one definite piece of information: french-fried potatoes are out.

If your doctor does not think it good for you to sleep, to drink wine, or to eat of a particular dish, do not worry; I will find you another who will not agree with him.

If you're given champagne at lunch, there's a catch somewhere.

If you're using first-class land for biofuels, then you're competing with the growing of food. And so you're actually spiking food prices by moving energy production into agriculture.

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it.

If your slave commits a fault, do not smash his teeth with your fists; give him some of the (hard) biscuit which famous Rhodes has sent you.

If you want to know the people of a nation, I am sure you can judge a great deal more about them from their cooking and eating traditions than you can from the words and actions of their public officials.

If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.

If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner

I got food poisoning today. I don't know when I'll use it.

I get way too much happiness from good food.

I had arrived at the airport one hour early so that, in accordance with airline procedures, I could stand around.

I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage, with my books, my family, and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post which any human power can give.

I had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado, or ceremony, than feed upon turkey at another man's table.

I have found it to be the most serious objection to coarse labors long continued, that they compelled me to eat and drink coarsely also.

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout.

I hate with a bitter hatred the names of lentils haricots - those pretentious cheats of the appetite, those tabulated humbugs, those certified aridites calling themselves human food!

I have always maintained that there is nothing wrong with nursery food now that we are grown up and can have a glass of wine with it.

I have a theory that since everyone is always dieting, no one at a convention dinner ever eats the potatoes. Therefore, they go back to the kitchen uneaten. And the next night they reappear at another convention. Therefore, one should never eat the potatoes. Who knows? They may be six or seven years old.

I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale.

I have lived temperately....I double the doctor's recommendation of a glass and a half wine each day and even treble it with a friend.

I just want one day off when I can go swimming and eat ice cream and look at rainbows.

I hire tea by the tea bag.

I haven't eaten at a McDonald's since I became President.

I know folks all have a tizzy about it, but I like a little bourbon of an evening. It helps me sleep. I don't much care what they say about it.

I know a good woman who thinks that her son lost his life because he took to drinking water only.

I liked the energy of cooking, the action, the camaraderie. I often compare the kitchen to sports and compare the chef to a coach. There are a lot of similarities to it.

I know on which side my bread is buttered.

I like to eat and I love the diversity of foods.

I like terra firma; the more firma, the less terra.

I like to serve chocolate cake, because it doesn't show the dirt.

I like spaghetti because you don't have to take your eyes off the book to pick about among it, it's all the same.

Illness isn't the only thing that spoils the appetite.

I loved my mother very much, but she was not a good cook. Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before. In our house Thanksgiving was a time for sorrow.

I love fruit, when it is expensive.

I love food and feel that it is something that should be enjoyed. I eat whatever I want. I just don't overeat.

I love drinking now and then. It defecates the standing pool of thought. A man perpetually in the paroxysm and fears of inebriety is like a half-drowned stupid wretch condemned to labor unceasingly in water; but a now-and-then tribute to Bacchus is like the cold bath, bracing and invigorating.

I’m awfully sorry for people who are taken in by all of today’s dietary mumbo jumbo. They are not getting any enjoyment out of their food.

I love simple food. I like to serve the entire animal, not only because it somehow provokes a customer to think about it, but also because to honor of the animal that has been killed for us to eat, you have to eat the whole thing. It would be silly to just eat the chops and throw everything else away.

I'm a man more dined against than dining.

In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn.