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• A well-made Martini or Gibson, correctly chilled and nicely served, has been more often my true friend than any two-legged creature.
• For me, a plain baked potato is the most delicious one....It is soothing and enough.
• In America we eat, collectively, with a glum urge for food to fill us. We are ignorant of flavour. We are as…
• There are may of us who cannot but feel dismal about the future of various cultures. Often it is hard not to…
• Probably no strychnine has sent as many husbands into their graves as mealtime scolding has, and nothing has driven more men into…
• Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic…
• There is a communication of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine is drunk. And that is my answer…
• . . . gastronomical perfection can be reached in these combinations: one person dining alone, usually upon a couch or a hill…
• Or you can broil the meat, fry the onions, stew the garlic in the red wine...and ask me to supper. I'll not…
• I sat in the gradually chilling room, thinking of my whole past the way a drowning man is supposed to, and it…
• Painting, it is true, was undergoing a series of -isms reminiscent of the whims of a pregnant woman.
• It is easy to think of potatoes, and fortunately for men who have not much money it is easy to think of…

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