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[P]opulation, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every twenty-five years, or increases in a geometrical ratio. ... [T]he means of subsistence, under circumstances the most favorable to human industry, could not possibly be made to increase faster than in an arithmetical ratio.

Popcorn for breakfast! Why not? It's a grain. It's like grits, but with high self-esteem.

Poultry is for the cook what canvas is for a painter, or the cap of Fortunatus for a conjurer.

Pounding fragrant things - particularly garlic, basil, parsley - is a tremendous antidote to depression. But it applies also to juniper berries, coriander seeds and the grilled fruits of the chilli pepper. Pounding these things produces an alteration in one's being - from sighing with fatigue to inhaling with pleasure. The cheering effects of herbs and alliums cannot be too often reiterated. Virgil's appetite was probably improved equally by pounding garlic as by eating it.

Potatoes are to food what sensible shoes are to fashion.

Pray how does your asparagus perform?

Presently, we were aware of an odour gradually coming towards us, something musky, fiery, savoury, mysterious, - a hot drowsy smell, that lulls the senses, and yet enflames them, - the truffles were coming.

Preserve and treat food as you would your body, remembering that in time food will be your body.

Prepared and fast foods have given us the time and freedom to see cooking as an art form - a form of creative expression.

Probably the most satisfying soup in the world for people who are hungry, as well as for those who are tired or worried or cross or in debt or in a moderate amount of pain or in love or in robust health or in any kind of business huggermuggery, is minestrone.

Probably no strychnine has sent as many husbands into their graves as mealtime scolding has, and nothing has driven more men into the arms of other women as the sound of a shrill whine at table.

Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

Prose and poetry are as different as food and drink.

Raisins are a thing that lasts, they come in small boxes, and you always feel like eating raisins, even at six in the morning. A raisin is always an appropriate snack.

Reality is an illusion created by a lack of alcohol.

Revenge is a dish best served cold.

Remember that a very good sardine is always preferable to a not that good lobster.

Red meat is not bad for you. Now blue-green meat, that's bad for you!

Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something.

Said Aristotle unto Plato, 'Have another sweet potato?' Said Plato unto Aristotle, 'Thank you, I prefer the bottle.'

Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.

Salt is white and pure - there is something holy in salt.

Sailboats are the slowest form of transportation on Earth with the possible exeption of airline flights that go through O'Hare.

Sandwiches are wonderful. You don't need a spoon or a plate!

Salt is the difference between eating in Technicolor and eating in black and white.

Salt is the policeman of taste: it keeps the various flavors of a dish in order and restrains the stronger from tyrannizing over the weaker.

SATIETY, n. The feeling that one has for the plate after he has eaten its contents, madam.

SAUCE, n. The one infallible sign of civilization and enlightenment. A people with no sauces has one thousand vices; a people with one sauce has only nine hundred and ninety-nine. For every sauce invented and accepted a vice is renounced and forgiven.

Salad freshens without enfeebling and fortifies without irritating.

Salt is born of the purest parents: the sun and the sea.

Self-centeredness will bring on the destruction of our world. National pride separates people. All people need the same thing. When you really get down to it, you'll find that all people need good food, clean water, clean air, and a decent environment, meaning education as to how to relate to one another and to avoid conflict, how to accept the differences where different people draw different conclusions.

Scotch Whisky is about the only thing left that is guaranteed to bring comfort to mankind.

Secretly in my heart, I believe food is a doorway to almost every dimension of our existence. ... Food never was just food. From the time a cave person first came out from under a rock, food has been a little bit of everything: who we are spiritually as well as what keeps us alive. It's a gathering place, and in the best of all worlds it's possible that when people of one country sit down to eat another culture's food it will open their minds to the culture itself. Food is a doorway to understanding, and it can be as profound or as facile as you would like it to be.

Seems to me God made a big mistake when He failed to put handles on watermelons.

Self restraint in speech, food, entertainment and vanity are the most essential fundamental of spiritual growth.

Seriously, if someone don't like this appetizer, you gotta grab they scruffy ass by the back of their neck and throw them out on the lawn. I can't help people like that.

Serve this dish with much too much wine for your guests, along with some cooked green vegetables and a huge salad. You will be famous in about half an hour.

Serve the dinner backward, do anything - but for goodness sake, do something weird.

Shake the hand that feeds you.

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

She ate so many clams that her stomach rose and fell with the tide.

Shape is a good part of the fig's delight.

Since we have a good loaf, let us not look for cheesecakes.

...shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle. Indeed of the whole realm of Nature the sea is in many ways the most harmful to the stomach, with its great variety of dishes and tasty fish.

She set about preparing her supper. It would have to be one of those classically simple meals, the sort that French peasants are said to eat and that enlightened English people sometimes enjoy rather self-consciously - a crusty French loaf, cheese, and lettuce and tomatoes from the garden. Of course there should have been wine and a lovingly prepared dressing of oil and vinegar, but Dulcie drank orange squash and ate mayonnaise that came from a bottle.

She knows no difference 'twixt head and privities who devours immense oysters at midnight.

Since, during storms, flames leap from the humid vapors and dark clouds emit deafening noises, is it surprising the lightning, when it strikes the ground, gives rise to truffles, which do not resemble plants?

Sitting down to a meal with an Indian family is different from sitting down to a meal with a British family.

Slaves were taught to be fine chefs, but they endangered their lives if they made a mistake or served an ill-prepared dish. Rather than being reprimanded, they were often hauled into the dining room and flogged in the presence of the guests.