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A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young an' believing.

A dressing is not a compote A dressing is not a custard It consists of pepper and salt, Vinegar, oil and mustard.

A fat kitchin, a lean Will.

A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.

After eating chocolate you feel godlike, as though you can conquer enemies, lead armies, entice lovers.

After praying, and before eating anything, it is a good custom for everyone to feed one another a small portion of the food. This will help to cultivate mutual love and affection among the family members.

A genial hearth, a hospitable board, and a refined rusticity.

A good apprentice cook must be as polite with the dishwasher as with the chef.

A good eater must be a good man; for a good eater must have a good digestion, and a good digestion depends upon a good conscience.

A gourmet knows that the best part is not always the expensive part, and he will find that part, and then he will share it. A gourmet should want to share.

A great step toward independence is a good-humoured stomach.

A hippo sandwich is easy to make. All you do is simply take one slice of bread, one slice of cake, some mayonnaise, one onion ring, one hippopotamus, one piece of string, a dash of pepper. That ought to do it. And now comes the problem... biting into it!

Airline food is not intended for human consumption. It's intended as a form of in-flight entertainment, wherein the object is to guess what it is, starting with broad categories such as "mineral" and "linoleum.

A human can be healthy without killing animals for food.

A hungry stomach rarely despises common food.

Aioli epitomizes the heat, the power, and the joy of the Provencal sun, but it has another virtue -- it drives away flies.

A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you have that basis, that's when cuisine is truly exciting.

Alcohol is a very necessary article. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.

Alfred Austin said, "Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.

Alcohol may pick you up a little bit, but it lets you down in a hurry.

All human history attests That happiness for man, - the hungry sinner! - Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner. ~Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto XIII, stanza 99

All experience is a drug experience. Whether it's mediated by our own [endogenous] drugs, or whether it's mediated by substances that we ingest that are found in plants, cognition, consciousness, the working of the brain, it's all a chemically mediated process. Life itself is a drug experience.

All food starting with p is comfort food: pasta, potato chips, pretzels, peanut butter, pastrami, Pizza, pastry.

All I ask of food is that it doesn't harm me.

All millionaires love a baked apple.

All knives and forks were working away at a rate that was quite alarming; very few words were spoken; and everybody seemed to eat his utmost, in self defence, as if a famine were expected to set in before breakfast-time to-morrow morning, and it had become high time to assert the first law of nature.

All that changing of plates and flapping of napkins while you wait 40 minutes for your food.

All the vitamins needed seem to be found in plebian dishes.

All things require skill but an appetite.

All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening.

Almost every person has something secret he likes to eat.

Although I have been prevented by outward circumstances from observing a strictly vegetarian diet, I have long been an adherent to the cause in principle. Besides agreeing with the aims of vegetarianism for aesthetic and moral reasons, it is my view that a vegetarian manner of living by its purely physical effect on the human temperament would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.

Although the frankfurter originated in Frankfurt, Germany, we have long since made it our own, a twin pillar of democracy along with Mom's apple pie. In fact, now that Mom's apple pie comes frozen and baked by somebody who isn't Mom, the hot dog stands alone. What it symbolizes remains pure, even if what it contains does not.

A man, doubtful of his dinner, or trembling at a creditor, is not much disposed to abstracted meditation, or remote enquiries.

A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually waste away, and eventually die.

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.

A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.

A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

A man taking basil from a woman will love her always.

A man who is stingy with saffron is capable of seducing his own grandmother.

Always remember: If you're alone in the kitchen and you drop the lamb, you can always just pick it up. Who's going to know?

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

A man's own dinner is to himself so important that he cannot bring himself to believe that it is a matter utterly indifferent to anyone else.

A man that lives on pork, fine-flour bread, rich pies and cakes, and condiments, drinks tea and coffee, and uses tobacco, might as well try to fly as to be chaste in thought.

A man wants nothing so badly as a gooseberry farm.

Americans are just beginning to regard food the way the French always have. Dinner is not what you do in the evening before something else. Dinner is the evening.

A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.

A man who was fond of wine was offered some grapes at dessert after dinner. "Much obliged," said he, pushing the plate aside, "I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills.