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Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all. [ Harriet Van Horne ]
When one has tasted watermelon he knows what the angels eat. [ Mark Twain ]
Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving. [ Rosalind Russell ]
A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety. [ Aesop ]
Cooking Rule... If at first you don't succeed, order pizza. [ Anonymous ]
Dessert is probably the most important stage of the meal, since it will be the last thing your guests remember before they pass out all over the table.
[ The Anarchist Cookbook ]
Hungry men think the cook lazy. [ Anonymous ]
Without rice, even the cleverest housewife cannot cook. [ Chinese Proverb ]
You don't sew with a fork, so I see no reason to eat with knitting needles. [ Miss Piggy, on eating Chinese Food ]
No man is lonely while eating spaghetti--it requires so much attention. [ Anonymous ]
What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you. [ Nora Ephron ]
The seven deadly sins ... Food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven milestones from man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the milestones are lifted. [ George Bernard Shaw ]
Mothers, food, love, and career, the four major guilt groups. [ Cathy Guisewite ]
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not. [ Mark Twain ]
Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity. [ Voltaire ]
Vanity is the food of fools. [ Anonymous ]
Give a man a fish and he has food for a day; teach him how to fish and you can get rid of him of the entire weekend. [ Zenna Schaffer ]
I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick--not wounded--dead. [ Woody Allen ]
My wife dresses to kill. She cooks the same way. [ Henry Youngman ]
What's the difference between a boyfriend and a husband?
About 30 pounds. [ Cindy Garner ]
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 Behavior
Food for thought is no substitute for the real thing. [ Walt Kelly ]
The ear tests words as the palate tastes food. [ Job 34:3 ]
To him who overcomes, I will give the right to eat from the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God. [ Rev. 2:7 ]
Non-cooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, so is the ballet. [ Julia Child ]
Wit
The salt with which the American Humorist spoils his cookery
... by leaving it out. [ Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary ]
When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Man invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking. [ Elayne Boolser ]
Food is an important part of a balanced diet. [ Anonymous ]
This is the first numerical problem I ever did. It demonstrates the power of computers:
Enter lots of data on calorie and nutritive content of foods. Instruct the thing to maximize a function describing nutritive content, with a minimum level of each component, for fixed caloric content. The results are that one should eat each day:
 1/2 chicken
1 egg
1 glass of skim milk
27 heads of lettuce.
[ Rev. Adrian Melott ]
-- “Uncle Cosmo ... why do they call this a word processor?”
-- “It's simple, Skyler ... you've seen what food processors do to food, right?” [ MacNelley, “Shoe” ]
What garlic is to food, insanity is to art. [ Anonymous ]
A food is not necessarily essential just because your child hates it. [ Katharine Whitehorn ]
It is not necessary to advertise food to hungry people, fuel to cold people, or houses to the homeless. [ J. K. Galbraith ]
Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow you may work. [ Anonymous ]
Eat drink and be merry, for tomorrow they may make it illegal. [ Anonymous ]
I went to the bank and asked to borrow a cup of money. They said, “What for?” I said, “I'm going to buy some sugar.” [ Steven Wright ]
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them. [ Samuel Butler ]
Never eat more than you can lift. [ Miss Piggy ]
One cannot refuse to eat just because there is a chance of being choked. [ Chinese Proverb ]
He who lives by the sword eats with bloody hands. [ Anonymous ]
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