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It is impossible to think of any good meal, no matter how plain or elegant, without soup or bread in it.M. F. K. Fisher
. . . gastronomical perfection can be reached in these combinations one person dining alone, usually upon a couch or a hill side two people, of no matter what sex or age, dining in a good restaurant six people . . . dining in a good home.
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Salad is roughage and a French idea.
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I can no more think of my own life without thinking of wine and wines and where they grew for me and why I drank them when I did and why I picked the grapes and where I opened the oldest procurable bottles, and all that, than I can remember living before I breathed.
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Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.
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There are many of us who cannot but feel dismal about the future of various cultures. Often it is hard not to agree that we are becoming culinary nitwits, dependent upon fast foods and mass kitchens and megavitamins for our basically rotten nourishment.
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