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“Every few months or so at home, Pops had to have Taiwanese ’Mian. Not the Dan-Dan Mian you get at Szechuan restaurants or in Fuchsia Dunlop’s book, but Taiwanese Dan-Dan. The trademark of ours is t...”
“D’yer see it? This finger, laddie, could send ye to meet yer Maker!”Sgt. Deisenburger stared at the black and purple nail a few inches from his face. As an offensive weapon it rated quite highly, e...”
“Never judge the deeds of a starving man while you’re on a full tummy.”
“My gosh, I love food. If I wasn’t an actor, I could be a completely different body shape right now.”
“Stop playing with your food.Laurent to James”
“These are delicious! What are they?""Double chocolate chip with peanut butter filling.""They're the second best thing I've ever tasted."I laughed. "You said the same thing at dinner.""I recently re...”
“There was shish-kabob for lunch, huge, savory hunks of spitted meat sizzling like the devil over charcoal after marinating seventy-two hours in a secret mixture Milo had stolen from a crooked trade...”
“a man who was, as we say in the restaurant business, one taco short of a combo platter.”
“Enjoy your Evening.""That will depend on the menu. If it's beef, it will be a tolerable meal. If it's chicken..." Elliot shuddered. "What is the point of chicken?""Eggs?”
“Beans are a warm cloak against economic cold.”
“...there's never a garden in all the parish but what there's endless waste in it for want o' somebody as could use everything up. It's what I think to myself sometimes, as there need nobody run sho...”
“Preparing the communal evening meal sometimes caused arguments. Every village in Sicily had a different recipe for squid and eels, disagreed on what herbs should be disbarred from the tomato sauce....”
“Sherrie would be there, and the last time I’d seen her at a social event she burst into tears when she saw me and ran out of the room. You’re upset, I’d yelled after her, meanly.”
“Hobbits always so polite, yes! O nice hobbits! Smeagol brings them up secret ways that nobody else could find. Tired he is, thirsty he is, yes thirsty; and he guides them and he searches for paths,...”
“Within five minutes of leaving the reunion, I'd undone the double wrapping and eaten all six rugelach, each a snail of sugar-dusted pastry dough, the cinnamon-lined chambers microscopically studded...”
“I did an about-face and veered into the sandwich shop. What I ordered is none of your business, but it was really good.”
“When he heard there was nothing to eat, he sat down and wept… “Why did I ever wake up!” he cried.”
“In my experience, anybody besides your mom that feeds you is going to want something in exchange for it.”
“That’s what you get for being food.”
“The potatoes were starch grenades. The canned carrots were revolting because that is their nature.”
