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“You're thinking I'm one of those wise-ass California vegetarians who is going to tell you that eating a few strips of bacon is bad for your health. I'm not. I say its a free country and you should ...”
“I am not a glutton - I am an explorer of food”
“There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will.”
“My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked.”
“The Cheesecake Factory is a great business model, but if you take your wife there for your 25th wedding anniversary, you might not reach your 26th.”
“Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.”
“The first time you see something that you have never seen before, you almost always know right away if you should eat it or run away from it.”
“Despite her unrepentant aversion to Italian food, which her husband put down to her nation's historic distrust of Italy, she suddenly declared: "All I want in life is to be able to get a take-away ...”
“A Paradox, the doughnut hole. Empty space, once, but now they've learned to market even that. A minus quantity; nothing, rendered edible. I wondered if they might be used-metaphorically, of course-...”
“But the goal of the arts, culinary or otherwise, is not to increase our comfort. That is the goal of an easy chair.”
“Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.”
“Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.”
“It is good to dress in fair clothes to dine with friends. It honors your host, if you are a guest; and your guest if you are a host. And both adorn the feast, and so celebrate the gifts of the world.”
“Dont talk while having food was only meant to be in integrity with food.”
“No plaque reminds the passer-by of these glories, although there should be one; for those who invent biscuits bring great pleasure to many.”
“In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but feed us.”
“We still (sometimes) remember that we cannot be free if our minds and voices are controlled by someone else. But we have neglected to understand that we cannot be free if our food and its sources a...”
“In the modern food landscape, the Krafts, Monsantos, and Archer Daniels Midlands are standing in the way of food democracy.”
“Some hae meat and canna eat,And some wad eat that want it,But we hae meat and we can eat,And sae the Lord be thankit.”
“Twas the night before Thanksgiving. All the food's in the oven. And I'm in the bedroom performin' self lovin'.”
