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Food is the very stuff of life

• The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death. M. Forster
• First we eat, then we do everything else. F.K. Fisher
• Man is born to eat. Craig Claiborne
• Humor keeps us alive. Humor and food. Don’t forget food. You can go a week without laughing. Joss Whedon
• The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and in the passive. William Ralph Inge
• Cooking,  Dessert,  Food cravings,  Healthy diet,  Losing weight

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Food is essential fuel for the body …

• Food is your body’s fuel. Without fuel, your body wants to shut down. Ken Hill
• To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art. Francois de la Rochefoucald
• Homemade meals—especially mommy meals—are life’s most pleasant fuel. Terri Guillemets
• Our bodies run on the fresh green fuel of the land. Terri Guillemets
• Fuel your body with premium fuel and it will provide you with the strength and stamina to live well. Cheryl Richardson
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…. but is far more than just nutrients and calories

• Food is a gift and should be treated reverentially–romanced and ritualized and seasoned with memory. Chris Bohjalian
• Food, in the end, in our own tradition, is something holy. It’s not about nutrients and calories. It’s about sharing. It’s about honesty. It’s about identity. Louise Fresco
• Food is everything. Food, friends, family. Those are the most important things in life.  Zac Posen
• When poets write about food it is usually celebratory. Food as the thing-in-itself, but also the thoughtful preparation of meals, the serving of meals, meals communally shared: a sense of the sacred in the profane. Joyce Carol Oates
• The shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of fuelling the body to a ritual of family and community, from the mere animal biology to an act of culture. Michael Pollan
• Food is not simply organic fuel to keep body and soul together, it is a perishable art that must be savoured at the peak of perfection. A. Bucchianeri

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Food and eating is one of the great pleasures of life …

• Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity. Voltaire
• Great food is like great sex. The more you have the more you want. Gael Greene
• “I moan with pleasure. “Did you just have a foodgasm?” he asks, wiping ricotta from his lips. “Where have you been all my life?” I ask the beautiful panini. Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss
• When I eat with my friends, it is a moment of real pleasure, when I really enjoy my life. Monica Bellucci
• As life’s pleasures go, food is second only to sex. Except for salami and eggs. Now that’s better than sex, but only if the salami is thickly sliced. Alan King
• Eating is one of the great beauties in life. One of my favourote recreations…  Eating with friends, the service, the ambience.  Leroy Neiman
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… right up there with sex …

• It’s been said that men think only about sex and food. And some men, like my uncle Lester, think about sex with food. Needless to say, the church has ordered him to cease bringing his own food to the potlucks. Jarod Kintz
• When you get to fifty-two food becomes more important than sex. Tom Lehrer
• As life’s pleasures go, food is second only to sex. Except for salami and eggs. Now that’s better than sex, but only if the salami is thickly sliced. Alan King
• I don’t see why human people make such a heavy trip out of sex. It isn’t anything complex, it is simply the best thing in life, even better than food. Robert A. Heinlein
• No, no food. I want sex. Bring me some sex. Elliott Gould
• I’m at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I’ve just had a mirror put over my kitchen table. Rodney Dangerfield
• Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences. Mason Cooley
• Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other. Marquis de Sade
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… and is meant to be enjoyed

• Stop being a vegan and start enjoying what you eat. Jamie Oliver
• Food should be fun. Thomas Keller
• Too many people just eat to consume calories. Try dining for a change. John Walters
• Food should be enjoyed rather than endured. Steve Hamilton
• Eating is not a crime. It’s not a moral issue. It’s normal. It’s enjoyable. It just is. Carrie Arnold
• There is a difference between dining and eating. Dining is an art. When you eat to get the most out of your meal, to please the palate, just as well as to satiate the appetite, that,my friend, is dining. Yuan Mei
• Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious. Ruth Reichl
• Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity. Voltaire
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Food is a universal experience to be shared

• Food is our common ground, a universal experience. James Beard
• What I’ve enjoyed most, though, is meeting people who have a real interest in food and sharing ideas with them. Good food is a global thing and I find that there is always something new and amazing to learn – I love it! Jamie Oliver

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Food and eating well gives great joy to life

• We all eat, and it would be a sad waste of opportunity to eat badly. Anna Thomas
• Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale. Elsa Schiaparelli
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There is no love sincerer than the love of food

• There is no love sincerer than the love of food. George Bernard Shaw
• Anybody who believes that the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach flunked geography. Robert Byrne
• People who love to eat are always the best people. Julia Child
• My weaknesses have always been food and men — in that order. Dolly Parton
• LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites. Henry Fielding

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Food is wrapped up with childhood

• According to my mother, there pretty much wasn’t anything I wouldn’t eat as a child…. I was even inclined to dig into stuff about which she expressed open disgust… cheap Chinese food with pepper so hot it made your gums feel like a medieval dentist had been at them. Alice Dreger
• As a child my family’s menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it. Buddy Hackett
• What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child? Lin Yutang
• I don’t know what it is about food your mother makes for you, especially when it’s something that anyone can make – pancakes, meat loaf, tuna salad – but it carries a certain taste of memory. Mitch Albom
• Most of us have fond memories of food from our childhood. Whether it was our mom’s homemade lasagna or a memorable chocolate birthday cake, food has a way of transporting us back to the past. Homaro Cantu
• Mother’s words of wisdom: “Answer me! Don’t talk with food in your mouth!” Erma Bombeck
• A food is not necessarily essential just because your child hates it. Katherine Whitehorn
• The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose. Garrison Keillor
• Homemade meals—especially mommy meals—are life’s most pleasant fuel. Terri Guillemets
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Food is wrapped up with love …

• Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine. Anthony Trollope
• Food is symbolic of love when words are inadequate. Alan D. Wolfelt
• If music be the food of love, play on. William Shakespeare
• When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that’s amore. Jack Brooks
• It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others. So it happens that when I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and the hunger for it… and then the warmth and richness and fine reality of hunger satisfied… and it is all one. F.K. Fisher
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… and courtship

• There are three possible parts to a date, of which at least two must be offered: entertainment, food, and affection. It is customary to begin a series of dates with a great deal of entertainment, a moderate amount of food, and the merest suggestion of affection. As the amount of affection increases, the entertainment can be reduced proportionately. When the affection IS the entertainment, we no longer call it dating. Under no circumstances can the food be omitted. Judith Martin
• Dating,  Seduction

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The best food is often simple food

• Plain food is quite good enough for me. Oliver Wendell Holmes
• You don’t have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces – just good food from fresh ingredients. Julia Child
• Cuisine has become too complicated — this is about subject, verb, adjective: duck, turnips, sauce. Alain Ducasse
• The greatest dishes are very simple. Auguste Escoffier
• The very common error of young or unconfident cooks is to keep putting more of their own personal ideology into a plate until there’s so much noise that you really can’t even hear a tune. You can say more in an empty space than you can in a crowded one. Mario Batali
• I don’t like gourmet cooking or “this” cooking or “that” cooking. I like good cooking. James Beard
• People want honest, flavourful food, not some show-off meal that takes days to prepare. Ted Allen
• You don’t need a silver fork to eat good food. Paul Prudhomme
• Food is to eat, not to frame and hang on the wall. William Denton
• Simple living,  Simplicity

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Nothing compliments food like good company …

• We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink… Epicurus
• He who eats alone chokes alone. Proverb
• The shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of fueling the body to a ritual of family and community, from the mere animal biology to an act of culture. Michael Pollan
• Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly. F.K. Fisher
• If you really want to make a friend, go to someone’s house and eat with him… the people who give you their food give you their heart. Cesar Chavez
• When I eat with my friends, it is a moment of real pleasure, when I really enjoy my life. Monica Bellucci
• Sadder than destitution, sadder than a beggar is the man who eats alone in public. Nothing more contradicts the laws of man or beast, for animals always do each other the honor of sharing or disputing each other’s food. Jean Baudrillard
• If you can eat with mates or friends or family, I mean, it’s such a brilliant thing isn’t it? If you feel really rubbish and you have a nice bit of food it makes you feel good, you know? Jamie Oliver
• Food tastes best when you eat it with your family.
• We know, for instance, that there is a direct, inverse relationship between frequency of family meals and social problems. Bluntly stated, members of families who eat together regularly are statistically less likely to stick up liquor stores, blow up meth labs, give birth to crack babies, commit suicide, or make donkey porn. If Little Timmy had just had more meatloaf, he might not have grown up to fill chest freezers with Cub Scout parts. Anthony Bourdain.

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… and good conversation …

• Laughter is brightest where food is best. Irish proverb
• Good talk saves the food. Proverb
• Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food. William Hazlitt
• Eating without conversation is only stoking. Marcelene Cox
• Dinner was made for eating, not for talking. William Makepeace Thackeray
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… and good wine

• A gourmet meal without a glass of wine just seems tragic to me somehow. Kathy Mattea
• Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized. Andre Simon
• A meal without wine is like a day without sun. Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
• Drinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life’s most civilized pleasures. Michael Broadbent
• I haven’t had much luck in pairing red wine with lobster. Jasper White
• Red wine is a great accompaniment to meat. Mario Lemieux
• Drinking wine is just a part of life, like eating food. Francis Ford Coppola
• Eat bread at pleasure, drink wine by measure. Randgle Cotgrave
• Let those who drink not, but austerely dine, dry up in law; the Muses smell of wine. Horace
• The depth of experience fine wine can bring to a dinner, particularly a bottle that has been through the past 100 years, makes you take stock of your own life. Neil De Grasse Tyson, Wine Collector
• A good wine is like a gentle kiss, its effect throughout the meal is scintillatingly sensual in an elegantly understated way. Frances Tabeek
• Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures. F.K. Fisher
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Food is the perfect topic of conversation, especially while eating

• You can’t just eat good food. You’ve got to talk about it too. And you’ve got to talk about it to somebody who understands that kind of food. Kurt Vonnegut
• One of the delights of life is eating with friends; second to that is talking about eating. And, for an unsurpassed double whammy, there is talking about eating while you are eating with friends. People who like to cook like to talk about food. Plain old cooks (as opposed to the geniuses in fancy restaurants) tend to be friendly. After all, without one cook giving another cook a tip or two, human life might have died out a long time ago. Laurie Colwin
• The only think I like better than talking about Food is eating. John Walters
• I could talk food all day. I love good food. Tom Brady
• If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating. Leigh Hunt
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Celebrate food by eat mindfully …

• When walking, walk. When eating, eat. Zen Proverb
• Be present when you’re eating and be mindful of the way you talk about food when you’re not. Amanda Owen
• Eat mindfully. Give thanks for your food. Chew each bite. Pause in between bites. Tess Marshall
• There are some people who eat an orange but don’t really eat it. They eat their sorrow, fear, anger, past, and future. Thich Nhat Hanh
• One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating. Luciano Pavarotti
• The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor. Chinese Proverb
• He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise. Henry David Thoreau
• Better to eat a dry crust of bread with peace of mind than have a banquet in a house full of trouble. Proverbs
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… so you really taste the flavour of your food

• The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor. Chinese Proverb
• He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise. Henry David Thoreau
• Eating is more pleasurable when it is a multi-sensory experience. Use your eyes and notice what is on your plate. Smell the aroma. Chew slowly so you can appreciate the flavors and experience the textures. Amanda Owen
• Take the time to really appreciate your food. Savor every bite and take the time to enjoy the flavors present in your meal. Make an effort to chew your food more before swallowing. Leo Babauta
• Mindful eating is eating slowly, fully tasting the food, appreciating every bite, being conscious of what you’re putting into your body, savoring but not overdoing. Leo Babauta

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Celebrate food through the art and gift of cooking

• Cooking is an art and patience a virtue… Careful shopping, fresh ingredients and an unhurried approach are nearly all you need. There is one more thing – love. Love for food and love for those you invite to your table. With a combination of these things you can be an artist – not perhaps in the representational style of a Dutch master, but rather more like Gauguin, the naïve, or Van Gogh, the impressionist. Plates or pictures of sunshine taste of happiness and love. Keith Floyd
• You don’t have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces – just good food from fresh ingredients. Julia Child
• In fact, people who possess no magic at all can instil their home-cooked meals with love and security and health, transforming ingredients and bringing disparate people together as family and friends. There’s a reason that when opening one’s home to guests, the first thing you do is offer food and drink. Cooking is a kind of everyday magic. Juliet Blackwell
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Celebrate food when you travel

• Do we really want to travel in hermetically sealed pope mobiles through the rural provinces of France, Mexico and the Far East, eating only in Hard Rock Cafes and McDonalds? Or do we want to eat without fear, tearing into the local stew, the humble taqueria’s mystery meat, the sincerely offered gift of a lightly grilled fish head? I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once. Anthony Bourdain
• If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home. James A. Michener
• May you eat an unfamiliar dessert in a strange land at least once every three years… Rob Brezsny
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We live in a world of fast food and junk food on every corner …

• You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars. Charles Kuralt
• We don’t walk. We overeat because we’ve made it easy to overeat. We have fast-food joints on every corner. By the way, the ‘we’ is all of us. It’s not the government. It’s all of us doing this together. Mehmet Oz
• Around every corner lurk greasy Fisherman’s Platters that give children nightmares, Naugahyde minute steaks that put tofu burgers in a favorable light and all those ubiquitous fast-food indigestion huts. Bryan Miller

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… a world of hamburgers …

• Mother Nature clearly intended for us to get our food from the “patty” group, which includes hamburgers, fish sticks, and McNuggets- foods that have had all of their organs safely removed. Dave Barry
• Our hamburgers, made from the flesh of chemically impregnated cattle, had been broiled over counterfeit charcoal, placed between slices of artificially flavored cardboard and served to us by recycled juvenile delinquents. Jean Michel Chapereau
• I went into a McDonald’s yesterday and said, “I’d like some fries.” The girl at the counter said, “Would you like some fries with that?”
• A Big Mac – the communion wafer of consumption. John Ralston Saul
• Well balanced diet: a hamburger in each hand.
• One of the glories of New York is its ethnic food, and only McDonald’s and Burger King equalize us all. John Corry
• Sacred cows make the best hamburger.  Mark Twain

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… and hotdogs

• Hot dog: A noble food that feeds the hand that bites it.
• Is the chemical aftertaste the reason why people eat hot dogs, or is it some kind of bonus? Neil Gaiman

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Fast food is all calories and no nutrition

• We think fast food is equivalent to pornography, nutritionally speaking. Steve Elbert
• It’s not food if it arrived through the window of your car. Michael Pollan
• We are all dietetic sinners; only a small percent of what we eat nourishes us; the balance goes to waste and loss of energy. William Osler
• The breakfast slimes, angel food cake, doughnuts and coffee, white bread and gravy cannot build an enduring nation. Martin H. Fischer

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Eating fast food is putting low value on what you eat …

• Eating at fast food outlets and other restaurants is simply a manifestation of the commodification of time coupled with the relatively low value many Americans have placed on the food they eat. Andrew F. Smith

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… and is bad for your health

• You can do a lot for your diet by eliminating foods that have mascots. Ted Spiker
• If you plant Twinkies in your body garden, how do you expect to harvest health? Terri Guillemets

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Don’t settle for junk food …

• We don’t need a law against McDonald’s or a law against slaughterhouse abuse — we ask for too much salvation by legislation. All we need to do is empower individuals with the right philosophy and the right information to opt out en masse. Joel Salatin
• If we’re not willing to settle for junk living, we certainly shouldn’t settle for junk food. Sally Edwards
• Eating crappy food isn’t a reward — it’s a punishment. Drew Carey
• You are what you eat – so don’t be fast, cheap, easy or fake.
• Health food may be good for the conscience, but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better. Robert Redford

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… except maybe on rare occasions

• He was chugging brown pop from a can Jack had handed him while he stuffed nacho cheese Doritos in his face. I was glad to see he looked lots better, almost completely like himself, which proves Doritos and brown pop really are health foods. C. Cast, Hunted
• I am going to start my diet tomorrow but first I need to eat all the junk food in my house today.

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You only have to savour real food to appreciate the difference

• If junk food is the devil, then a sweet orange is as scripture. Terri Guillemets
• Did you ever stop to taste a carrot? Not just eat it, but taste it? You can’t taste the beauty and energy of the earth in a Twinkie. Terri Guillemets
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The food you eat has a great impact on your health…

• He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors. Chinese Proverb
• Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food. Hippocrates
• If diet is wrong, medicine is of no use. If diet is correct, medicine is of no need.  Ancient Ayurvedic proverb
• You pray for good health and a body that will be strong in old age. Good — but your rich foods block the gods’ answer and tie Jupiter’s hands. Persius
• I have spent my career in research and teaching unravelling the complex mystery of why health eludes some and embraces others, and I now know that food primarily determines the outcome. T. Colin Campbell
• No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means. Maimonides
• Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother. George Herbert
• The time indeed is at hand when systematic lectures on food will be part of medical education, when the value of feeding in disease is admitted to be as important as the administration of medicines. John Milner Fothergill
• Good food is wise medicine. Alison Levitt M.D.
• Chronic disease is a foodborne illness. We ate our way into this mess, and we must eat our way out. Mark Hyman
• The food you eat can either be the safest and most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison. Ann Wigmore
• There is no diet that will do what eating healthy does.
• If you plant Twinkies in your body garden, how do you expect to harvest health? Terri Guillemets
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… for you are what you eat

• At the most basic, obvious, and literal level, we are what we eat. Food provides the materials for the construction of our body’s architecture. Food becomes us. Dr. Alejandro Junger
• Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are. Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
• If you put junk food in your body, your body will turn to junk. Goldie Hawn
• Garbage in garbage out. George Fuechsel
• How do you build up your bank account? By putting something in it every day. Your health account is no different. What I do today, I am wearing tomorrow. If I put inferior foods in my body today, I’m going to be inferior tomorrow, it’s that simple. Jack Lalanne
• We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are. Adelle Davis
• Avoid fruit and nuts. You are what you eat. Jim Davis
• Preserve and treat food as you would your body, remembering that in time food will be your body. B.W. Richardson
• If you are what you eat, I’m fast, cheap and easy.
• You are what you eat? That’s strange, I don’t think I’ve eaten any sexy beasts today…
• You are what you eat – so don’t be fast, cheap, easy or fake.
• Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are. Brillat-Savarin

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The food you eat also has a big impact on your mood

• Eating well is important for both your physical and mental health. Eating small, well- balanced meals throughout the day will help you keep your energy up and minimize mood swings. Jeanne Segal
• Foods rich in certain omega-3 fats called EPA and DHA can give your mood a big boost. The best sources are fatty fish such as salmon, herring, mackerel, anchovies, sardines, and some cold-water fish oil supplements. Canned albacore tuna and lake trout can also be good sources, depending on how the fish were raised and processed. Jeanne Segal
• Minimize sugar and refined carbs. You may crave sugary snacks, baked goods, or comfort foods such as pasta or French fries, but these “feel-good” foods quickly lead to a crash in mood and energy. Jeanne Segal
• Courage, cheerfulness, and a desire to work depends mostly on good nutrition. Jacob Moleschott
• A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will’s freedom after it. Aldous Huxley
• My soul is dark with stormy riot, Directly traceable to diet. Samuel Hoffenstein
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In today’s world of plenty, we often tend to eat far too much …

• I had a missed call. It’s probably the all you can eat buffet calling to say, “Come back! We know you can eat just a little bit more. Jarod Kintz
• We don’t walk. We overeat because we’ve made it easy to overeat. We have fast-food joints on every corner. By the way, the ‘we’ is all of us. It’s not the government. It’s all of us doing this together. Mehmet Oz
• If two heads are better than one, then what about double chins? On that note, I will help myself to seconds. Jarod Kintz
• I’m at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I’ve just had a mirror put over my kitchen table. Rodney Dangerfield
• In general, mankind, since the improvement in cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires. Benjamin Franklin
• I’ve decided that perhaps I’m bulimic and just keep forgetting to purge. Paula Poundstone
• My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people. Orson Welles
• Now that food has replaced sex in my life, I can’t even get into my own pants.
• The meal is not over when I’m full. The meal is over when I hate myself. Louis C.K.
• Why am I thinking about Krispy Kremes? We’re supposed to be exercising. Meg Cabot
• When we win, I’m so happy I eat a lot. When we lose, I’m so depressed, I eat a lot. When we’re rained out, I’m so disappointed I eat a lot. Tommy Lasorda
• You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I’m not hungry enough to eat six. Yogi Berra
• Eat whatever you want and if anyone tries to lecture you about your weight, eat them too.
• OVEREAT, v. To dine. Ambrose Bierce.
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… very often due to emotional issues

• Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us. Peter De Vries
• If you’ve ever make room for dessert even though you’re already full or dove into a pint of ice cream when you’re feeling down, you’ve experienced emotional eating. Emotional eating is using food to make yourself feel better—eating to fill emotional needs, rather than to fill your stomach. Melinda Smith, M.A.
• Binge eating is literally stuffing feelings down. Mary Froning, PsyD.
• We have it in our head that if we fill our stomachs, we’ll fill our hearts. Kate Wicker
• Almost everyone I’ve ever met who overeats is doing so on behalf of an old self (a discouraged child, an unpopular teenager, a self-conscious young adult) who no longer exists. Deepak Chopra
• Obesity is a mental state, a disease brought on by boredom and disappointment. Cyril Connolly
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Overeating is bad for us physically and emotionally

• Gluttony is the source of all our infirmities and the fountain of all our diseases. As fire extinguished by an excess of fuel, so is the natural health of the body destroyed by an intemperate diet. Robert Burton
• I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand. Benjamin Franklin
• More die in the United States of too much food than of too little. John Kenneth Galbraith
• The spirit cannot endure the body when overfed, but, if underfed, the body cannot endure the spirit. St Frances de Sales
• The meal is not over when I’m full. The meal is over when I hate myself. Louis C.K.
• They are sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing. William Shakespeare
• Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great. Henry IV of France
• Gluttony is the source of all our infirmities and the fountain of all our diseases. As a lamp is choked by a superabundance of oil, and a fire extinguished by excess of fuel, so is the natural health of the body destroyed by intemperate diet. Marion L. Burton
• Glutton: one who digs his grave with his teeth. French Proverb
• Gluttony kills more than the sword. Proverb
• Poor, darling fellow-he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table. Diana Vreeland

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Eat in moderation

• Eat little, sleep sound. Iranian Proverb
• He that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well. English Proverb
• I am a better person when I have less on my plate. Elizabeth Gilbert
• Never eat more than you can lift. Miss Piggy
• Never order food in excess of your body weight. Erma Bombeck
• The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor. Chinese Proverb
• To avoid sickness, eat less; to prolong life worry less. Weng Chu Hui
• To lengthen thy Life, lessen thy meals. Benjamin Franklin
• To lengthen your life, shorten your meals. Proverb
• Beware the hobby that eats. Benjamin Franklin
• The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food. Cyril Connolly
• Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live. Socrates
• According to the saying of an ancient philosopher, one should eat to live, and not live to eat. Moliere
• One should eat to live, not live to eat. Benjamin Franklin
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Eat a balanced diet

• A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand. Barbara Johnson
• Food is an important part of a balanced diet. Fran Lebowitz
• Well balanced diet: a hamburger in each hand.
• Diet is the essential key to all successful healing. Without a proper balanced diet, the effectiveness of herbal treatment is very limited. Michael Tierra
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Eat lots of greens

• Leafy greens, the most nutrient-rich foods on the planet, were the best predictor of extreme longevity. Joel Fuhrman, M.D.
• Our bodies run on the fresh green fuel of the land. Terri Guillemets
• It’s bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children’s health than the paediatrician. Meryl Streep
• Greens feed our souls, refresh our minds, and nourish our grateful bodies. Terri Guillemets
• Green leafy happiness and cherry-red life, bursting with seeds. Terri Guillemets
• The best comfort food will always be greens, cornbread, and fried chicken. Maya Angelou
• A golfer’s diet: live on greens as much as possible.
• She is fond of greens who kisses the gardener.
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By all means, eat healthy …

• They key to eating healthy? Avoid a food that has a TV commercial.
• If you keep good food in your fridge, you will eat good food. Errick McAdams
• Just listen to your body, eat in silence and see what feels good and you will spontaneously choose the foods that are beneficial to you. Deepak Chopra
• Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. Michael Pollan
• Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper. Adelle Davis
• I just hate health food. Julia Child
• Health food makes me sick. Calvin Trillin
• Health food may be good for the conscience, but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better. Robert Redford

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… but don’t become too obsessive about it

• It would be nice if the Food and Drug Administration stopped issuing warnings about toxic substances and just gave me the names of one or two things still safe to eat. Robert Fuoss
• Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don’t eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on. George Bernard Shaw
• Eat right, exercise regularly, die anyway.
• Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive. George Bernard Shaw
• Life is too short for self-hatred and celery sticks. Marilyn Wann
• Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside. Mark Twain
• Nobody seems more obsessed by diet than our anti-materialistic, otherworldly, New Age spiritual types. But if the material world is merely illusion, an honest guru should be as content with Budweiser and bratwurst as with raw carrot juice, tofu and seaweed slime. Edward Abbey

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More and more today food is made from chemicals …

• Chemicals, n: Noxious substances from which modern foods are made.
• As for butter versus margarine, I trust cows more than chemists. Joan Gussow
• We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors and furniture polish is made from real lemons. Alfred E. Newman
• High-tech tomatoes. Mysterious milk. Supersquash. Are we supposed to eat this stuff? Or is it going to eat us? Annita Manning
• Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them. Sai Baba
• Food, one assumes, provides nourishment: but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction. John Cage
• The problem is we are not eating real food anymore. We are eating food-like products.  Dr Alejandro Junger
• Americans currently consume a staggering 50 percent of their calories from refined and processed food. Rip Esselstyn
• I’m an organic kind of guy. To paraphrase Fight Club, the food you eat, ends up eating you. It’s true! Just think of all the chemicals found in modern foods. Take bleach, for instance. There’s bleach in everything we eat from breads to pastas. There’s even bleach in things I drink, like laundry detergent. Jarod Kintz

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… and preservatives

• I personally stay away from all health foods. At my age I need all the preservatives I can get! George Burns
• We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun. George Orwell

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Don’t eat anything your great grandmother wouldn’t recognise as food

• Don’t eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food. Michael Pollan
• Don’t eat it if you can’t pronounce the ingredients.
• If you don’t recognise an ingredient, your body won’t either.

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Eat organic food

• You know it’s a sad day when your child looks at you and asks ‘Daddy, are these organic?’ Dylan Moran
• When chickens get to live like chickens, they’ll taste like chickens, too. Michael Pollan
• Organic farming appealed to me because it involved searching for and discovering nature’s pathways, as opposed to the formulaic approach of chemical farming. The appeal of organic farming is boundless; this mountain has no top, this river has no end. Eliot Coleman
• Organic is something we can all partake of and benefit from. When we demand organic, we are demanding poison-free food. We are demanding clean air. We are demanding pure, fresh water. We are demanding soil that is free to do its job and seeds that are free of toxins. We are demanding that our children be protected from harm. We all need to bite the bullet and do what needs to be done—buy organic whenever we can, insist on organic, fight for organic and work to make it the norm. We must make organic the conventional choice and not the exception available only to the rich and educated. Maria Rodale
• As long as one egg looks pretty much like another, all the chickens like chicken, and beef beef, the substitution of quantity for quality will go unnoticed by most consumers, but it is becoming increasingly apparent to anyone with an electron microscope or a mass spectrometer that, truly, this is not the same food. Michael Pollan
• Every time you buy organic, you’re persuading more famers to grow organic.
• Every time you spend money, you’re casting a vote for the kind of world you want. Anna Lappe
• Isn’t it strange how upset people get about a few dozen baseball players taking growth hormones, when we’re doing what we’re doing to our food animals and feeding them to our children? Jonathan Safran Foer
• If organic farming is the natural way, shouldn’t organic produce just be called “produce” and make the pesticide-laden stuff take the burden of an adjective? Terri Guillemets

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Consider the environmental impacts of what you eat

• Whenever I hear people say clean food is expensive, I tell them it’s actually the cheapest food you can buy. That always gets their attention. Then I explain that with our food all of the costs are figured into the price. Society is not bearing the cost of water pollution, of antibiotic resistance, of food-borne illnesses, of crop subsidies, of subsidized oil and water- of all the hidden costs to the environment and the taxpayer that make cheap food seem cheap. No thinking person will tell you they don’t care about all that. I tell them the choice is simple: You can buy honestly priced food or you can buy irresponsibly priced food. Joel Salatin
• Care for the environment

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Eat with a fuller consciousness of all that is at stake

• Eating is an agricultural act,’ as Wendell Berry famously said. It is also an ecological act, and a political act, too. Though much has been done to obscure this simple fact, how and what we eat determines to a great extent the use we make of the world – and what is to become of it. To eat with a fuller consciousness of all that is at stake might sound like a burden, but in practice few things in life can afford quite as much satisfaction. By comparison, the pleasures of eating industrially, which is to say eating in ignorance, are fleeting. Many people today seem perfectly content eating at the end of an industrial food chain, without a thought in the world; this book is probably not for them. Michael Pollan, The Omnivore’s Dilemma
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Being well fed makes us amiable and contented …

• When the belly is full, it says to the head, “Sing, fellow!” Arabian Proverb
• After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations. Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance
• But when the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface. Mark Twain
• So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being. Franz Kafka
• All sorrows are less with bread. Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote
• How good one feels when one is full—how satisfied with ourselves and with the world! People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contended; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained. One feels so forgiving and generous after a substantial and well-digested meal—so noble-minded, so kindly- hearted. Jerome K. Jerome
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… while when we are hungry, the belly becomes a tyrant and stops us from living well

• When the belly is full the mind is amongst the maids. Proverb
• The belly rules the mind. Spanish Proverb
• I eat merely to put food out of my mind. N.F. Simpson
• The spirit cannot endure the body when overfed, but, if underfed, the body cannot endure the spirit. St Frances de Sales
• One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. Virginia Woolf

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Being well fed makes it easier to put ourselves to work

• It is very strange, this domination of our intellect by our digestive organs. We cannot work, we cannot think, unless our stomach wills so. It dictates to us our emotions, our passions. After eggs and bacon, it says, “Work!” After beefsteak and porter, it says, “Sleep!”…. After hot muffins, it says, “Be dull and soulless, like a beast of the field—a brainless animal, with listless eye, unlit by any ray of fancy, or of hope, or fear, or love, or life.” And after brandy, taken in sufficient quantity, it says, “Now, come, fool, grin and tumble, that your fellow-men may laugh—drivel in folly, and splutter in senseless sounds, and show what a helpless ninny is poor man whose wit and will are drowned…  We are but the veriest, sorriest slaves of our stomach. Jerome K. Jerome
• Courage, cheerfulness, and a desire to work depends mostly on good nutrition. Jacob Moleschott
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It is a tragedy that some people on our planet are constantly hungry

• There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. Mahatma Gandhi
• When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist. Hélder Câmara
• Feel what it’s like to truly starve, and I guarantee that you’ll forever think twice before wasting food. Criss Jami
• If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one. Mother Teresa
• It is not necessary to advertise food to hungry people, fuel to cold people, or houses to the homeless. John Kenneth Galbraith
• It’s difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn’t available. Ronald Reagan
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Food for the mind and soul is just as vital as food for the body

• Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul. Dorothy Day
• The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body. Pat Buchanan
• Our minds are like our stomachs; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite. Quintilian
• Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body. Marcus Tullius Cicero
• It is the food which you furnish to your mind that determines the whole character of your life. Emmet Fox
• Facts are to the mind what food is to the body. Edmund Burke
• Too many of us take great pains with what we ingest through our mouths, and far less with what we partake of through our ears and eyes. Brandon Sanderson
• The mind grows by what it feeds on. Josiah Gilbert Holland
• Wouldn’t it be wonderful if our mind growled like our stomach does when it is hungry? Zig Ziglar
• If you would make your mind strong, you must give it strong food. Reuen Thomas
• A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body. Benjamin Franklin
• The unfed mind devours itself. Gore Vidal
• The most important boundary you can set is the time to nourish your spirit. The few minutes a day you take to feed your soul is your strongest investment in your happiness. Do whatever it takes to inspire yourself and stay in a creative consciousness. Choose a time each day to connect with your inner being and do not compromise it. Alan Cohen
• The mind, with its emotions, is composed of ideas and impressions, and it is healthy and vital when it is continually replenished with inspiration, confidence, hope, wisdom, and understanding. No man lives long without food of the spirit. Ervin Seale
• The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on. Josiah Gilbert Holland
• Knowledge is the food of the soul. Plato
• The spiritual path is a path of prayer. Prayer is food for the soul and the universe. Prayer connects us, humbles us, strengthens us, enlightens us and makes us one with the Great Mystery. John Kehoe
• The mind,  The soul,  The heart

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Food provides abundant metaphors …

• We got married in a fever hotter than a pepper sprout. June Carter Cash
• We don’t need a melting pot in this country, folks. We need a salad bowl. In a salad bowl, you put in the different things. You want the vegetables — the lettuce, the cucumbers, the onions, the green peppers — to maintain their identity. You appreciate differences. Jane Elliot
• Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. Mark Twain
• It’s like spicy food — sometimes you have to tone it down so more people can enjoy it. Kenneth Edmonds
• If wishes and buts were clusters of nuts, we’d all have a bowl of granola. From Strangers with Candy
• Sacred cows make the best hamburger. Mark Twain
• Fame is a fickle food – Upon a shifting plate. Emily Dickinson
• There is no such thing as a free lunch. Proverb
• Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel. Charles H. Spurgeon
• News is like food: it is the cooking and serving that makes it acceptable, not the material itself. Rose McCaulay
• I was cooking breakfast this morning for my kids, and I thought, “He’s (Ronald Reagan) just like a Teflon frying pan: Nothing sticks to him. Pat Schroeder
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… including metaphors for life and happiness…

• All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much. George Harrison
• Romance novels are birthday cake and life is often peanut butter and jelly. I think everyone should have lots of delicious romance novels lying around for those times when the peanut butter of life gets stuck to the roof of your mouth. Janet Evanovich
• Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious. Ruth Reichl
• God gives all birds their food but does not drop it into their nests. Danish Proverb
• Life itself is the proper binge. Julia Child
• If you wait for a cake to be given to you so you will be happy- then you will be happy when someone gives you a cake. But if you buy a cake (or bake one) for yourself so you will be happy, you have found the way of happiness. JoyBell C.

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… love, sex and friendship …

• Love is like a good cake; you never know when it’s coming, but you’d better eat it when it does! JoyBell C.
• Love is an ice cream sundae, with all the marvellous coverings. Sex is the cherry on top. Jimmy Dean
• Fast sex, like fast food, is cheap, but it doesn’t nourish the body – or the soul. Suzanne Fields
• For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook. Quentin Crisp
• Friends are the bacon bits in the salad bowl of life.
• Love,  Sexuality,  Friendship

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… and different tastes

• What is sauce for the goose may be sauce for the gander but is not necessarily sauce for the chicken, the duck, the turkey or the guinea hen. Alice B. Toklas
• What is food to one, is to others bitter poison. Titus Lucretius Carus
• Some like carrots, others like cabbage. Proverb
• For each mouth, a different soup. Portuguese Proverb

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Vegetables

• After all the trouble you go to, you get about as much actual “food” out of eating an artichoke as you would from licking 30 or 40 postage stamps. Miss Piggy
• An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh. Will Rogers
• The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me and I to them. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Shipping is a terrible thing to do to vegetables. They probably get jet-lagged, just like people. Elizabeth Berry
• Sex is good, but not as good as fresh, sweet corn. Garrison Keillor
• Plant a radish, get a radish, never any doubt. That’s why I love vegetables, you know what they’re about! Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt
• Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon. Doug Larson
• Keep as near as ever you can to the first sources of supply—fruits and vegetables. B.W. Richardson
• I eat so poorly during the stressful part of my day I need to have a vegetable orgy for dinner just to make up for it. Carrie Latet
• I don’t like spinach, and I’m glad I don’t, because if I liked it I’d eat it, and I just hate it. Clarence Darrow
• What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow. A. Milne
• I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regretted most of them, but never the potatoes that went with them. Nora Ephron
• It was time to take the pumpkin out of the pot and eat it. In the final analysis, that was what solved these big problems of life. You could think and think and get nowhere, but you still had to eat your pumpkin. That brought you down to earth. That gave you a reason for going on. Pumpkin. Alexander McCall Smith, The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency

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Salad

• The colors of a fresh garden salad are so extraordinary, no painter’s pallet can duplicate nature’s artistry. Dr. SunWolf
• Lettuce, greens and celery, though much eaten, are worse than cabbage, being equally indigestible without the addition of condiments. Besides, the lettuce contains narcotic properties. It is said of Galen, that he used to obtain from a head of it, eaten on going to bed, all the good effects of a dose of opium. William Andrus Alcott
• Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it. Charles Dudley Warner
• Large, naked raw carrots are acceptable as food only to those who lie in hutches eagerly awaiting Easter. Fran Lebowitz
• If you don’t know what’s meant by God, watch a forsythia branch or a lettuce leaf sprout. Martin H. Fischer
• I don’t think America will have really made it until we have our own salad dressing. Until then we’re stuck behind the French, Italians, Russians and Caesarians. Pat McNelis
• Did you ever stop to taste a carrot? Not just eat it, but taste it? You can’t taste the beauty and energy of the earth in a Twinkie. Terri Guillemets
• The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me. George Bernard Shaw
• We don’t need a melting pot in this country, folks. We need a salad bowl. In a salad bowl, you put in the different things. You want the vegetables — the lettuce, the cucumbers, the onions, the green peppers — to maintain their identity. You appreciate differences. Jane Elliot

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Fruit

• A fruit is a vegetable with looks and money. Plus, if you let fruit rot, it turns into wine, something Brussels sprouts never do. P.J. O’Rourke
• Always eat grapes downward — that is eat the best grapes first; in this way there will be none better left on the bunch, and each grape will seem good down to the last. If you eat the other way, you will not have a good grape in the lot. Samuel Butler
• An apple is an excellent thing — until you have tried a peach. George du Maurier
• This special feeling towards fruit, its glory and abundance, is I would say universal…. We respond to strawberry fields or cherry orchards with a delight that a cabbage patch or even an elegant vegetable garden cannot provoke. Jane Grigson
• There is a lot more juice in grapefruit than meets the eye.
• There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Strawberries are the angels of the earth, innocent and sweet with green leafy wings reaching heavenward. Terri Guillemets
• Keep as near as ever you can to the first sources of supply—fruits and vegetables. B.W. Richardson
• It is, in my view, the duty of an apple to be crisp and crunchable, but a pear should have such a texture as leads to silent consumption. Edward Bunyard
• If junk food is the devil, then a sweet orange is as scripture. Terri Guillemets
• A pear is an apple with its girdle off.
• And when you crush an apple with your teeth, say to it in your heart: Your seeds shall live in my body, And the buds of your tomorrow shall blossom in my heart, And your fragrance shall be my breath, And together we shall rejoice through all the seasons. Khalil Gibran
• When eating a fruit, think of the person who planted the tree. Vietnamese Proverb

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Tomato

• Of plants tomatoes seemed the most human, eager and fragile and prone to rot. John Updike
• It’s difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a home grown tomato. Lewis Grizzard
• Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cream makes it Russian; lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese; garlic makes it good. Alice May Brock

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Meat

• Yeah, where I come from, we eat our sushi cooked—medium rare. And it’s made out of a cow. John Henson
• Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat. Fran Lebowitz
• The way you cut your meat reflects the way you live. Confucius
• Red meat is not bad for you. Now blue-green meat, that’s bad for you! Tommy Smothers
• My favorite animal is steak. Fran Lebowitz
• I take a vitamin every day. It’s called a steak. Leo Benvenuti and Steve Rudnick
• They claim red meat is bad for you. But I never saw a sick-looking tiger.  Chi Chi Rodriguez
• The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for the steak to cook. Julia Child
• Thanks cows. I appreciate your tastiness. Craig Ferguson
• Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them. Samuel Butler
• When chickens get to live like chickens, they’ll taste like chickens, too. Michael Pollan
• If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat? John Cleese
• I think steak is the ultimate comfort food, and if you’re going out for one, that isn’t the time to scrimp on calories or quality. Tom Colicchio
• It’s nice to eat a good hunk of beef but you want a light dessert, too. Arthur Fiedler
• Meat isn’t murder, it’s delicious. John Lydon

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Bacon

• Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon. Doug Larson
• If you are a human being, it’s in your DNA to want bacon. Jan Charles
• Friends are the bacon bits in the salad bowl of life.
• Bacon is the meat candy of the world. Katy Perry
• Bacon is so good by itself that to put it in any other food is an admission of failure. You’re basically saying, ‘I can’t make this other food taste good, so I’ll throw in bacon. ‘Penn Jillette
• I love super crispy, almost burned, snapping-crispy bacon. David Lynch
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Stew

• Jakes had sent up stew and apple pie. Oh, good,” said Miss Marcy. “Stew’s so comforting on a rainy day.”  Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
• I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o’clock in the morning. John Barrymore
• A nickel’s worth of goulash beats a five dollar can of vitamins. Martin H. Fischer

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Fish

• Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is. J. O’Rourke
• Fish, to taste right, must swim three times — in water, in butter, and in wine. Polish Proverb
• I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tuna fish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
• The only kind of seafood I trust is the fish stick, a totally featureless fish that doesn’t have eyeballs or fins. Dave Barry

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Soup

• As the days grow short, some faces grow long. But not mine. Every autumn, when the wind turns cold and darkness comes early, I am suddenly happy. It’s time to start making soup again. Leslie Newman
• Worries go down better with soup. Jewish Proverb
• Soup is liquid comfort.
• Soup is just a way of screwing you out of a meal. Jay Leno
• Soup and fish explain half the emotions of human life. Sydney Smith
• No, I don’t take soup. You can’t build a meal on a lake. Elsie de Wolfe
• If soup isn’t hot enough to make a grown man wince, it’s undrinkable. Terri Guillemets
• I am the broth of love. Make soup to me. Jarod Kintz

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Bread

• Bread and butter, devoid of charm in the drawing-room, is ambrosia eating under a tree. Elizabeth Russell
• Bread deals with living things, with giving life, with growth, with the seed, the grain that nurtures. It is not coincidence that we say bread is the staff of life. Lionel Poilane
• Proust had his madeleines; I am devastated by the scent of yeast bread rising. Bert Greene
• Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts! James Beard
• The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one. Erma Bombeck
• How can a nation be called great if its bread tastes like kleenex? Julia Child
• All sorrows are less with bread. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
• Bread is the king of the table and all else is merely the court that surrounds the king. The countries are the soup, the meat, the vegetables, the salad but bread is king. Louis Bromfield

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Dairy

• I’ve got a sizeable retirement nest egg. It’s an ostrich egg, and it’s going to make an omelette so big that it’ll produce enough leftovers for decades. Jarod
• Life is half delicious yogurt, half crap, and your job is to keep the plastic spoon in the yogurt. Scott Adams
• Hey yogurt, if you’re so cultured, how come I never see you at the opera? Stephen Colbert

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Pizza

• Cold beer and pizza are spiritual. Betsy Cañas Garmon
• My love is pizza shaped. Won’t you have a slice? It’s circular, so there’s enough to go around. Dora J. Arod
• God ordered the world and all things in it, and I ordered a pizza and all things on it. Jarod Kintz
• You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I’m not hungry enough to eat six. Yogi Berra
• There’s no better feeling in the world than a warm pizza box on your lap. Kevin James
• My idea of feng shui is to have them arrange the pepperoni in a circle on my pizza.

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Honey

• When I add a spoon of honey to my tea, I give thanks to a dozen bees for the work of their whole lives. When my finger sweeps the final drop of sweetness from the jar, I know we’ve enjoyed the nectar from over a million flowers. This is what honey is: the souls of flowers, a food to please the gods. Honeyeaters know that to have a joyful heart one must live life like the bees, sipping the sweet nectar from each moment as it blooms. And Life, like the world of honey, has its enchantments and stings…. Ingrid Goff-Maidoff

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Sushi

• In Mexico we have a word for sushi: bait. José Simons
• Yeah, where I come from, we eat our sushi cooked—medium rare. And it’s made out of a cow. John Henson

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Cheese

• A dessert without cheese is like a beautiful woman with only one eye. Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
• But I, when I undress me Each night, upon my knees Will ask the Lord to bless me With apple-pie and cheese. Eugene Field
• Cheese – milk’s leap towards immortality. Clifton Fadiman
• Don’t forget that the flavors of wine and cheese depend upon the types of infecting micro-organisms. Martin H. Fischer
• How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese? Charles de Gaulle
• Many’s the long night I’ve dreamed of cheese – toasted, mostly. Robert Louis Stevenson
• The magnificence of the dessert should not allow one to forget the cheese. Cheese complements a good dinner and supplements a bad one. Eugene Briffault
• The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. G.K. Chesterton
• There is no good formal dinner without a dessert of pâtisserie and preserves. The idea of a dinner finishing with the cheese course would be, for me, so incongruous that it would never even cross my mind! Lahana Denis
• Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures. F.K. Fisher

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Pasta

• Those who forget the pasta are condemned to reheat it.
• Life is a combination of magic and pasta. Federico Fellini
• If you ate pasta and antipasto, would you still be hungry?
• No man is lonely while eating spaghetti: it requires so much attention. Christopher Morley
• Everything you see I owe to spaghetti. Sophia Loren
• Spaghetti can be eaten most successfully if you inhale it like a vacuum cleaner. Sophia Loren
• Fettucini alfredo is macaroni and cheese for adults. Mitch Hedberg

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Onion

• Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it. French Proverb

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Doughnuts and bagels

• A bagel is a doughnut with the sin removed. George Rosenbaum
• Anyhow, the hole in the doughnut is at least digestible. H. L. Mencken
• The bagel, an unsweetened doughnut with rigor mortis. Beatrice & Ira Freeman

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Rice

• Rice is born in water and must die in wine. Italian Proverb
• Cutting stalks at noontime. Perspiration drips to the earth. Know you that your bowl of rice each grain from hardship comes? Chang Chan-Pao
• I like rice. Rice is great if you’re hungry and want two thousand of something. Mitch Hedberg

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Sandwiches

• Too few people understand a really good sandwich. James Beard
• I love sandwiches. Let’s face it, life is better between two pieces of bread. Jeff Mauro
• You can make any meal into a sandwich, and any sandwich into a meal. Jeff Mauro
• Am I tough? Am I strong? Am I hard-core? Absolutely.
• Did I whimper with pathetic delight when I sank my teeth into my hot fried-chicken sandwich? You betcha. James Patterson
• Sandwiches are wonderful. You don’t need a spoon or a plate! Paul Lynde

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Nuts

• No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut. Channing Pollock
• If wishes and buts were clusters of nuts, we’d all have a bowl of granola. From Strangers with Candy
• If “ifs” and “buts” were candy and nuts, wouldn’t it be a Merry Christmas? Don Meredith
• Families are like fudge – mostly sweet with a few nuts.
• Getting married for sex is like buying a 747 for the free peanuts. Jeff Foxworthy
• Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing. Redd Foxx
• Nuts just take up space where chocolate ought to be.
• Life is like a box of chocolates – full of nuts!
• Have nuts and be nuts. Criss Jami

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Pie

• There is nothing better on a cold wintry day than a properly made pot pie. Craig Claiborne
• You can say this for ready-mixes — the next generation isn’t going to have any trouble making pies exactly like mother used to make. Earl Wilson
• We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie. David Mamet
• The natural term of an apple-pie is but twelve hours. It reaches its highest state about one hour after it comes from the oven, and just before its natural heat has quite departed. But every hour afterward is a declension. And after it is one day old, it is thence- forward but the ghastly corpse of apple-pie. Henry Ward Beecher
• But I, when I undress me Each night, upon my knees Will ask the Lord to bless me With apple-pie and cheese. Eugene Field
• Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness. Jane Austen
• ..it fills the cracks of the heart. Go away, pain.  Kevin James, Mall Cop
• I don’t think a really good pie can be made without a dozen or so children peeking over your shoulder as you stoop to look in at it every little while. John Gould
• If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. Carl Sagan
• Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie. Jim Davis

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Oysters

• He was a very valiant man who first adventured on eating oysters. James I
• I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead — not sick, not wounded — dead. Woody Allen
• As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans. Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

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Dessert

• Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first. Ernestine Ulmer
• It’s nice to eat a good hunk of beef but you want a light dessert, too. Arthur Fiedler

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Cake

• He showed the words “chocolate cake” to a group of Americans and recorded their word associations. “Guilt” was the top response. If that strikes you as unexceptional, consider the response of French eaters to the same prompt: “celebration.” Michael Pollan
• I love you like a fat kid loves cake! Scott Adams
• Let’s face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me. Audrey Hepburn
• Cakes are like books: There are new ones you want to read and old favorites you want to reread. Ellen Rose
• The most dangerous food is wedding cake. James Thurber
• A party without cake is just a meeting. Julia Child

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Left overs

• The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found. Calvin Trillin
• My wife does wonderful things with left overs. She throws them out.
• If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

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Biscuits and crackers

• The inventor of soda crackers has a place in hell. Martin H. Fischer
• Do vegetarians eat animal crackers?
• Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling. Dave Barry

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Sauces

• Philosophers have often looked for the defining feature of humans — language, rationality, culture, and so on. I’d stick with this: Man is the only animal that likes Tabasco sauce. Paul Bloom
• In England there are sixty different religions and only one sauce. Francis Caracciolo
• Tabasco sauce is to bachelor cooking what forgiveness is to sin. P.J. O’Rourke
• Sex is the tabasco sauce which an adolescent national palate sprinkles on every course in the menu. Mary Day Winn
• Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking the tartar sauce with you. Zig Ziglar
• Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking the tartar sauce with you. Zig Ziglar
• Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion. Ambrose Bierce
• Hunger is the best sauce in the world. Cervantes
• Americans can eat garbage, provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup, mustard, chili sauce, Tabasco sauce, cayenne pepper, or any other condiment which destroys the original flavor of the dish. Henry Miller
• Studies find top 3 most stressful moments in people’s lives: death, divorce, and properly pronouncing “Worcestershire sauce.” Tony Hsieh

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Spices

• Cinnamon bites and kisses simultaneously. Vanna Bonta

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Garlic

• You are what you eat. For example, if you eat garlic you’re apt to be a hermit. Franklin P. Jones
• A nickel will get you on the subway, but garlic will get you a seat. Old New York Proverb
• There is no such thing as a little garlic. A. Baer
• Most of the food allergies die under garlic and onion. Martin H. Fischer
• Try the garlic diet. You don’t actually lose weight, but your friends think you look thinner at a distance.
• What garlic is to food, insanity is to art.
• Garlic is good for your health because no-one comes close enough to give you germs.
• Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cream makes it Russian; lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese; garlic makes it good. Alice May Brock
• The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they’re trying to keep out. Calvin Trillin

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More advice around eating

• After dinner sit a while, and after supper walk a mile. English Saying
• Just listen to your body, eat in silence and see what feels good and you will spontaneously choose the foods that are beneficial to you. Deepak Chopra
• Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. Michael Pollan
• Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper. Adelle Davis
• The right time to eat is: for a rich man when he is hungry, for a poor man when he has something to eat. Mexican Proverb

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Food and hunger

• Hunger: One of the few cravings that cannot be appeased with another solution. Irwin Van Grove
• If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate. Diogenes the Cynic
• Hunger is the best sauce in the world. Cervantes
• Hunger is not only the best cook, but also the best physician.
• I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand. Benjamin Franklin
• It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest. Dorothy Canfield Fisher
• If the only way we judged hunger was how full the stomach is, no one would ever have dessert. Mark Friedman
• The spirit cannot endure the body when overfed, but, if underfed, the body cannot endure the spirit. St Frances de Sales

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Food and indigestion

• Dyspepsia is the remorse of a guilty stomach. A. Kerr
• I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o’clock in the morning. John Barrymore
• Christmas itself may be called into question, If carried so far it creates indigestion. Ralph Bergengren
• If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts. Satchel Paige
• Stomach: A bowl-shaped cavity containing the organs of indigestion.
• My wife has to be the worst cook; her specialty is indigestion. Rodney Dangerfield
• If you try to eat this elephant all in one bite, you’re going to have a hell of an indigestion.
• Swallowing your pride occasionally will never cause indigestion.

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Food and sex

• I haven’t trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I’ve never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex. Erma Bombeck
• Food has replaced sex in my life, now I can’t even get into my own pants.
• I don’t see why human people make such a heavy trip out of sex. It isn’t anything complex, it is simply the best thing in life, even better than food. Robert A. Heinlein
• No, no food. I want sex. Bring me some sex. Elliott Gould
• I’m at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I’ve just had a mirror put over my kitchen table. Rodney Dangerfield
• When you get to fifty-two food becomes more important than sex. Tom Lehrer
• As life’s pleasures go, food is second only to sex. Except for salami and eggs. Now that’s better than sex, but only if the salami is thickly sliced. Alan King
• Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences. Mason Cooley
• Sex is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other. Marquis de Sade
• For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook. Quentin Crisp
• I found that if I offered to cook for a girl, my odds improved radically over simply asking a girl out. Through my efforts to attract the opposite sex, I found that not only did cooking work, but that it was actually fun. Alton Brown
• Fast sex, like fast food, is cheap, but it doesn’t nourish the body – or the soul. Suzanne Fields
• There are three possible parts to a date, of which at least two must be offered: entertainment, food, and affection.  It is customary to begin a series of dates with a great deal of entertainment, a moderate amount of food, and the merest suggestion of affection.  As the amount of affection increases, the entertainment can be reduced proportionately.  When the affection is the entertainment, we no longer call it dating.  Under no circumstances can the food be omitted.    Miss Manners’ Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behaviour
• He’d noticed that sex bore some resemblance to cookery: it fascinated people, they sometimes bought books full of complicated recipes and interesting pictures, and sometimes when they were really hungry they created vast banquets in their imagination – but at the end of the day they’d settle quite happily for egg and chips. If it was well done and maybe had a slice of tomato. Terry Pratchett
• It’s been said that men think only about sex and food. And some men, like my uncle Lester, think about sex with food. Needless to say the church has ordered him to cease bringing his own food to the potlucks. Jarod Kintz
• Love is an ice cream sundae, with all the marvellous coverings. Sex is the cherry on top. Jimmy Dean
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French food

• Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion. Ambrose Bierce
• Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cream makes it Russian; lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese; garlic makes it good. Alice May Brock
• Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion. Ambrose Bierce
• The French cook; we open tins. John Galsworthy

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Italian food

• The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you’re hungry again. George Miller
• No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention. Christopher Morley
• No man is lonely while eating spaghetti: it requires so much attention. Christopher Morley
• Italy will always have the best food. Diane von Furstenberg

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English food

• I’ll bet what motivated the British to colonize so much of the world is that they were just looking for a decent meal. Martha Harrison
• The French cook; we open tins. John Galsworthy
• If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts. Somerset Maugham
• I was well warned about English food, so it did not surprise me, but I do wonder sometimes, how they ever manage to prise it up long enough to get a plate under it. Margaret Halsey
• I’ll bet what motivated the British to colonize so much of the world is that they were just looking for a decent meal.” Martha Harrison

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American food

• Americans can eat garbage, provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup, mustard, chili sauce, Tabasco sauce, cayenne pepper, or any other condiment which destroys the original flavor of the dish. Henry Miller
• Public and private food in America has become eatable, here and there extremely good. Only the fried potatoes go unchanged, as deadly as before. Luigi Barzine

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Thoughts on breakfast

• All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast. John Gunther
• We plan, we toil, we suffer — in the hope of what? A camel-load of idol’s eyes? The title deeds of Radio City? The empire of Asia? A trip to the moon? No, no, no, no. Simply to wake just in time to smell coffee and bacon and eggs. J.B. Priestly
• We load up on oat bran in the morning, so we’ll live forever. Then we spend the rest of the day living like there’s no tomorrow. Lee Iacocca
• Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first. Josh Billings
• I went to a restaurant that serves “breakfast anytime.” So I ordered French toast during the Renaissance. Steven Wright
• I don’t eat breakfast. I hate to eat on an empty stomach
• Popcorn for breakfast! Why not? It’s a grain. It’s like, like, grits, but with high self-esteem. James Patterson
• Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It’s made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners! Roald Dahl
• If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts. William Somerset Maugham
• My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked. Winston Churchill

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Thoughts on appetisers

• Hors D’oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces. Jack Benny
• Appetizers: Little things you eat until you lose your appetite.
• What do I eat an hors d’oeuvre for? Because I have a drink, and then I have to have blotting paper in my tummy. Constantine Stackelberg

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Thoughts on being a gourmet verse being a glutton

• Gourmet: A food fetishist.
• A gourmet is a glutton festooned with credit cards. J Harris Sydney
• A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch. James Beard
• A gourmet is a glutton who reads French. Colin Bowles
• I am not a glutton – I am an explorer of food. Erma Bombeck

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Restaurants

• Great restaurants are, of course, nothing but mouth-brothels. There is no point in going to them if one intends to keep one’s belt buckled. Frederic Raphael
• I never eat in a restaurant that’s over a hundred feet off the ground and won’t stand still. Calvin Trillin
• A person who is nice to you but is not nice to the waiter is not a nice person.
• The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small. Woody Allen
• The quality of food is in inverse proportion to a dining room’s altitude, especially atop bank and hotel buildings (airplanes are an extreme example). Bryan Miller
• Eating is one of the great beauties in life. One of my favourote recreations…  Eating with friends, the service, the ambience.  Leroy Neiman
• A restaurant is a fantasy-a kind of living fantasy in which diners are the most important members of the cast. Warner LeRoy
• There are advantages to being a star though – you can always get a table in a full restaurant. Ingrid Bergman
• When you first entered the restaurant, I thought you were handsome… and then, of course, you spoke. Helen Hunt in As Good As It Gets
• I was doing stand-up at a restaurant and there was a chalkboard on the street out front. It said, ‘Soup of the Day: Cream of Asparagus. Ellen DeGeneres.’ Ellen DeGeneres
• I don’t know when pepper mills in a restaurant got to be right behind frankincense and myrrh in prominence. It used to be in a little jar that sat next to the salt on the table and everyone passed it around, sneezed, and it was no big deal. Erma Bombeck
• The disparity between a restaurant’s price and food quality rises in direct proportion to the size of the pepper mill. Bryan Miller
• The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going. George Carlin
• I went to a fancy French restaurant called Deja Vu. The headwaiter said, ‘Don’t I know you?’ Rod Schmidt
• A Cannibal is a person who walks into a restaurant and orders a waiter. Morey Amsterdam
• Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays. Henry Youngman
• Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them. P. G. Wodehouse
• When you go to a restaurant, the less you know about what happens in the kitchen, the more you enjoy your meal. Jeffrey Wright
• I eat at this German-Chinese restaurant and the food is delicious. The only problem is that an hour later you’re hungry for power. Dick Cavett
• The best fame is a writer’s fame. It’s enough to get a table at a good restaurant, but not enough to get you interrupted when you eat. Fran Lebowitz
• Nouvelle Cuisine, roughly translated, means: I can’t believe I paid ninety-six dollars and I’m still hungry. Mike Kalin
• It’s easier to be faithful to a restaurant than it is to a woman. Federico Fellini
• In a restaurant choose a table near a waiter. Jewish Proverb
• The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums. Peter De Vries
• The age of your children is a key factor in how quickly you are served in a restaurant. We once had a waiter in Canada who said, ‘Could I get you your check?’ and we answered, ‘How about the menu first?’ Erma Bombeck
• I went to a restaurant that serves ‘breakfast at any time’. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance. Steven Wright
• Never trust the food in a restaurant on top of the tallest building in town that spends a lot of time folding napkins. Andy Rooney
• Avoid restaurants with names that are improbable descriptions, such as the Purple Goose, the Blue Kangaroo or the Quilted Orangutan. Calvin Trillin
• Restaurants with peppermills the size of fire extinguishers and big red menus with the entries spelled with f’s instead of s’s are always expensive. Miss Piggy

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Chopsticks

• And I find chopsticks frankly distressing. Am I alone in thinking it odd that a people ingenious enough to invent paper, gunpowder, kites and any number of other useful objects, and who have a noble history extending back 3,000 years haven’t yet worked out that a pair of knitting needles is no way to capture food? Bill Bryson
• When I’m at a Chinese restaurant having a hard time with chopsticks, I always hope that there’s a Chinese kid at an American restaurant somewhere who’s struggling mightily with a fork. Rick Budinich
• You don’t sew with a fork, so I see no reason to eat with knitting needles. Miss Piggy, on eating Chinese Food

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• A bagel is a doughnut with the sin removed. George Rosenbaum
• A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.
• A human being is primarily a bag for putting food into. George Orwell
• Gourmet: A glutton festooned with credit cards.
• Hors-d’oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into twenty pieces
• I didn’t fight my way to the top of the food chain to be a vegetarian.
• As life’s pleasures go, food is second only to sex. Except for salami and eggs. Now that’s better than sex, but only if the salami is thickly sliced. Alan King
• All men hear is blah, blah, blah, blah, SEX, blah, blah, blah, FOOD, blah, blah, blah, BEER. Denis Leary
• A food is not necessarily essential just because your child hates it. Katharine Whitehorn
• A hungry stomach seldom scorns plain food. Horace
• Don’t eat anything your great-great grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food. Michael Pollan
• Don’t eat it if you can’t pronounce the ingredients.
• Eat right, exercise regularly, die anyway.
• Mosquitoes remind us that we are not as high up on the food chain as we think. Tom Wilson
• My body is a temple where junk food goes to worship.
• My wife does wonderful things with left overs. She throws them out.
• Never eat more than you can lift. Miss Piggy
• The biggest seller is cookbooks and the second is diet books – how not to eat what you’ve just learned how to cook. Andy Rooney
• The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small. Woody Allen
• The most dangerous thing about American food? The portions. Jay Leno
• The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you’re hungry again. George Miller
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