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Food Quotes by Laurie Colwin
- The sharing of food is the basis of social life.
- The table is a meeting place, a gathering ground, the source of sustenance and nourishment, festivity, safety, and satisfaction. A person cooking is a person…
- There is really a je ne sais quoi about turkey cooking - the air of festivity, the family squabbles, the constant basting - that does…
- A person cooking is a person giving. Even the simplest food is a gift.
- People who like to cook like to talk about food....without one cook giving another cook a tip or two, human life might have died out…
- Cookbooks hit you where you live. You want comfort; you want security; you want food; you want to not be hungry and not only do…
- No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice…
- We know that without food we would die. Without fellowship, life is not worth living.
- Provision as much pure and organic food as you can, and let the rest go by.
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- Some bioengineering is good, especially if it results in plants that are more drought-resistant or perennial food crops. — Margaret Atwood
- What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- As people flock to urban centers where ground space is limited, cities with green walls and roofs and skyscraper farms offer improved… — Diane Ackerman
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- Acorns were good until bread was found. — Francis Bacon
- The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. — Lucille Ball
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- I love food and feel that it is something that should be enjoyed. I eat whatever I want. I just don't overeat. — Tyra Banks