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“Brillat-Savarin, said: ‘Tell me what you eat and I’ll tell you who you are.’ He had it wrong. It’s not just what we eat that shows who we are, it’s what we buy but don’t eat that says more about th...”
“There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony.”
“So often, even when we stop to say a blessing before a meal, we’re mentally preparing to spoon some pasta or potatoes onto our plates. We’re not usually focused on the present moment, simply placin...”
“prepare your food in keeping with monastic traditions—simple, basic, healthy, balanced.”
“yelling while eating was like swallowing anger. It’s simply not good for us. It leaves us unhappy and unsatisfied, as if the meal didn’t count or wasn’t good, and an hour later we’re back looking f...”
“How do you feel?”He rubbed his stomach. “Like I’ve been eating Styrofoam.”
“I propose a toast to mirth; be merry! Let us complete our course of law by folly and eating! Indigestion and the digest. let Justinian be the male, and Feasting, the female! Joy the depths! Live, O...”
“Eat drink and be merry for tomorrow ye diet.”
“Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are.”
“Thou shouldst eat to live not live to eat.”
“The nearer the bone the sweeter the meat.”
“When I demanded of my friend what viands he preferred He quoth: "A large cold bottle and a small hot bird!"”
“Let us eat and drink for tomorrow we shall die.”
“Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.”
“They say fingers were made before forks and hands before knives.”
