Happy Holidays

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

- J.R.R. Tolkien

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Omit and substitute! That's how recipes should be written. Please don't ever get so hung up on published recipes that you forget that you can omit and substitute.

- Jeff Smith, The Frugal Gourmet

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A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.

- Elsa Schiaparelli

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Food to a large extent is what holds a society together and eating is closely linked to deep spiritual experiences.

- Peter Farb & George Armelagos
- Consuming Passions: The Anthropology of Eating

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Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups - alcohol, caffeine, sugar, and fat.

- Alex Levine

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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.

- William Powell

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My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.

- David Byrne

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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

- Virginia Woolf

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Stressed spelled backwards is desserts. Coincidence? I think not!

- Author Unknown

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One should eat to live, not live to eat.

- Molière

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Some people like to paint pictures, do gardening, or build a boat in the basement. Other people get a tremendous pleasure out of the kitchen, because cooking is just as creative and imaginative an activity as drawing, wood carving, or music.

-Julia Child

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Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first.

- Ernestine Ulmer

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You can't beat the feeling of venturing outdoors and picking a few ingredients from the garden to cook with.

- Gordon Ramsay

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I eat merely to put food out of my mind.

- N.F. Simpson

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All I ask of food is that it doesn't harm me.

- Michael Palin

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It is after you have lost your teeth that you can afford to buy steaks.

- Pierre August Renoir

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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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Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

- Mark Twain

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Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups - alcohol, caffeine, sugar, and fat.

- Alex Levine

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As for butter versus margarine, I trust cows more than chemists.

- Joan Gussow