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Dine on Literature: Appetizers from Popular Culture...

Food in literature and culture

Appetizers

Please sir, may I have more? Oliver Twist / Charles Dickens

Everything you see I owe to spaghetti. Sophia Loren

Civilization has taught us to eat with a fork, but even now if nobody is around we use our fingers. Will Rogers

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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room of one’s own / Virginia Woolf

Peel me a grape. Mae West

In a house without a genuine kitchen, one of the delights of growing up is lost. James Beard

My illness is due to my doctor’s insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies.    W. C. Fields

The way you cut your meat reflects the way you live. Confucius

My favorite animal is steak. Fran Lebowitz

Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast. Epictetus

Appetizers