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'The wine had such ill effects on Noah's health that it was all he could do to live 950 years. Just nineteen years short of Methuselah. Show me a total abstainer that ever lived that long.' +
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— Will Rogers' +
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'News is like food: it is the cooking and serving that makes it acceptable, not the material itself.' +
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— Rose McCaulay';break;
case "2": document.getElementById('id_quotes').innerHTML = 'Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.' +
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— Henrik Ibsen' +
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'Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.' +
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— Doug Larson' +
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'But doth not the appetite alter? A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.' +
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— William Shakespeare';break;
case "3": document.getElementById('id_quotes').innerHTML = 'In the end, your creativity - perhaps even your outrageousness - will determine the final result.' +
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— Bobby Flay' +
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'What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.' +
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— A. A. Milne' +
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'Food, like a loving touch or a glimpse of divine power, has that ability to comfort.' +
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— Norman Kolpas';break;
case "4": document.getElementById('id_quotes').innerHTML = 'New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.' +
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— Mark Twain, 1884' +
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'A recipe is only a theme, which an intelligent cook can play each time with a variation.' +
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— Madame Benoit' +
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'I hate people who are not serious about their meals.' +
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— Oscar Wilde';break;
case "5": document.getElementById('id_quotes').innerHTML = 'I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regretted most of them, but never the potatoes that went with them.' +
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— Nora Ephron' +
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'By my faith, yes! Tarte à la crème!...How indebted I am to you, Madame, to have reminded me of tarte à la crème!' +
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— Moliere, La Critique de l'Ecole des Femmes' +
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'Always serve too much hot fudge sauce on hot fudge sundaes. It makes people overjoyed, and puts them in your debt.' +
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— Judith Olney';break;
case "6": document.getElementById('id_quotes').innerHTML = 'There is no sight on Earth more appealing than the sight of a woman making dinner for someone she loves.' +
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— Thomas Wolfe' +
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'It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others. So it happens that when I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and the hunger for it… and then the warmth and richness and fine reality of hunger satisfied… and it is all one.' +
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— M. F. K. Fisher, ' +
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'Bread is the warmest, kindest of words. Write it always with a capital letter, like your own name.' +
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— Russian café sign';break;
case "7": document.getElementById('id_quotes').innerHTML = 'Americans are just beginning to regard food the way the French always have. Dinner is not what you do in the evening before something else. Dinner is the evening.' +
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— Art Buchwald' +
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'My kitchen is a mystical place, a kind of temple for me. It is a place where the surfaces seem to have significance, where the sounds and odors carry meaning that transfers from the past and bridges to the future.' +
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— Pearl Bailey' +
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'As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy, and to make plans.' +
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— Ernest Hemingway, in “A Moveable Feast”';break;
case "8": document.getElementById('id_quotes').innerHTML = 'You may feel that you have eaten too much...But this pastry is like feathers - it is like snow. It is in fact good for you, a digestive!' +
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— M. F. K. Fisher, 'I Was Really Very Hungry'' +
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'Nothing rekindles my spirits, gives comfort to my heart and mind, more than a visit to Mississippi... and to be regaled as I often have been, with a platter of fried chicken, field peas, collard greens, fresh corn on the cob, sliced tomatoes with French dressing... and to top it all off with a wedge of freshly baked pecan pie.' +
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— Craig Claiborne, in Southern Food' +
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'Alcohol is a misunderstood vitamin.' +
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— P. G. Wodehouse';break;
case "9": document.getElementById('id_quotes').innerHTML = 'Brewing espresso...unlike other methods of brewing coffee...IS rocket science...' +
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— Kevin Knox and Julie Sheldon Huffaker' +
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'Cooking is at once one of the simplest and most gratifying of the arts, but to cook well one must love and respect food.' +
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— Craig Claiborne' +
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'Food is, delightfully, an area of licensed sensuality, of physical delight which will, with luck and enduring taste buds, last our life long.' +
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— Antonia Till';break;
case "10": document.getElementById('id_quotes').innerHTML = 'Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.' +
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— Harriet Van Horne' +
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'Seating themselves on the greensward, they eat while the corks fly and there is talk, laughter and merriment, and perfect freedom, for the universe is their drawing room and the sun their lamp. Besides, they have appetite, Nature's special gift, which lends to such a meal a vivacity unknown indoors, however beautiful the surroundings.' +
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— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin' +
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'I pray that death may strike me in the middle of a large meal. I wish to be buried under the tablecloth between four large dishes.' +
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— Marc Desuagiers';break;
case "11": document.getElementById('id_quotes').innerHTML = 'Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed by the facts.' +
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— Finley Peter Dunne' +
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'The gentle art of gastronomy is a friendly one. It hurdles the language barrier, makes friends among civilized people, and warms the heart.' +
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— Samuel Chamberlain' +
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' Watch a French housewife as she makes her way slowly along the loaded stalls… searching for the peak of ripeness and flavor… What you are seeing is a true artist at work, patiently assembling all the materials of her craft, just as the painter squeezes oil colors onto his palette ready to create a masterpiece.' +
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— Keith Floyd';break;
case "12": document.getElementById('id_quotes').innerHTML = 'I feel the end approaching. Quick, bring me my dessert, coffee and liqueur.' +
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— Brillat-Savarin's great aunt Pierette' +
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'Serve the dinner backward, do anything - but for goodness sake, do something weird.' +
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— Elsa Maxwell' +
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'There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will.' +
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— Robert Frost';break;
case "13": document.getElementById('id_quotes').innerHTML = 'The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.' +
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— Julia Child' +
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'The art of cooking is among the most intimate things that we can do for another.' +
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— Charlie Trotter' +
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'Don't wreck a sublime chocolate experience by feeling guilty. Chocolate isn't like premarital sex. It will not make you pregnant. And it always feels good.' +
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— Lora Brody';break;
case "14": document.getElementById('id_quotes').innerHTML = 'I feel a recipe is only a theme, which an intelligent cook can play each time with a variation.' +
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— Madame Benoit' +
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'Of soup and love, the first is best.' +
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— Spanish Proverb' +
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'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 and menus of cooks present, the wisdom of cookbook writers.' +
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— Laurie Colwin';break;
case "15": document.getElementById('id_quotes').innerHTML = 'Don't be a fuddy-duddy with your hollandaise; be bold, dunk your pretzels in it!' +
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— Miss Piggy' +
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'Coffee and cigarettes, you know? That's, like, the breakfast of champions.' +
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— Jim Jarmusch, in the film 'Blue in the Face'' +
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'If the soup had been as warm as the wine; if the wine had been as old as the turkey; and if the turkey had had a breast like the maid, it would have been a swell dinner.' +
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— Duncan Hines';break;
case "16": document.getElementById('id_quotes').innerHTML = 'Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the 'Titanic' who waved off the dessert cart.' +
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— Erma Bombeck' +
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'Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.' +
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— Frank Lloyd Wright' +
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' If the divine creator has taken pains to give us delicious and exquisite things to eat, the least we can do is prepare them well and serve them with ceremony.' +
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— Fernand Point';break;
case "17": document.getElementById('id_quotes').innerHTML = 'The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight... [Breadmaking is] one of those almost hypnotic businesses, like a dance from some ancient ceremony. It leaves you filled with one of the world's sweetest smells...there is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel. that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread.' +
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— M. F. K. Fisher' +
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'We may live without friends; We may live without books; But civilized man cannot live without cooks.' +
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— Meredith Owen' +
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'Cuisine is only about making foods taste the way they are supposed to taste.' +
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— Charlie Trotter';break;
case "18": document.getElementById('id_quotes').innerHTML = 'We plan, we toil, we suffer - in the hope of what? A camel-load of idol's eyes? The title deeds of Radio City? The empire of Asia? A trip to the moon? No, no, no, no. Simply to wake just in time to smell coffee and bacon and eggs.' +
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— J. B. Priestly' +
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'In cooking, as in the arts, simplicity is a sign of perfection.' +
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— Curnonsky' +
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'As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy, and to make plans.' +
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— Ernest Hemingway, in “A Moveable Feast”';break;
case "19": document.getElementById('id_quotes').innerHTML = 'Aioli intoxicates gently, fills the body with warmth, and the soul with enthusiasm. In its essence it concentrates the strength, the gaiety of Provence: sunshine.' +
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— Frederic Mistral' +
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'The onion is the truffle of the poor.' +
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— Robert J. Courtine' +
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'Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art. It requires instinct and taste rather than exact measurements.' +
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— Marcel Boulestin';break;
case "20": document.getElementById('id_quotes').innerHTML = 'No man is lonely while eating spaghetti: it requires so much attention.' +
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— Christopher Morley' +
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'My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.' +
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— Orson Welles' +
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'I used to love the way everyone talked about food as if it were one of the most important things in life. And, of course, it is. Without it we would die. Each of us eats about one thousand meals a year. It is my belief that we should try and make as many of these meals as we can truly memorable.' +
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— Robert Carrier';break;
case "21": document.getElementById('id_quotes').innerHTML = ' Happy and successful cooking doesn’t rely only on know-how; it comes from the heart, makes great demands on the palate, and needs enthusiasm and a great love of food to bring it to life.' +
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— Georges Blanc' +
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'I doubt the world holds for anyone a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice cream.' +
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— Heywood Broun' +
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' Food can look beautiful, taste exquisite, smell wonderful, make people feel good, bring them together, inspire romantic feelings… At its most basic, it is fuel for a hungry machine.' +
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— Rosamond Richardson';break;
case "22": document.getElementById('id_quotes').innerHTML = 'The secret of good cooking is, first, having a love of it… If you’re convinced that cooking is drudgery, you’re never going to be good at it, and you might as well warm up something frozen.' +
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— James Beard' +
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'He lay back for a little in his bed thinking about the smells of food… of the intoxicating breath of bakeries and dullness of buns… He planned dinners, of enchanting aromatic foods… endless dinners, in which one could alternate flavor with flavor from sunset to dawn without satiety, while one breathed great draughts of the bouquet of brandy.' +
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— Evelyn Waugh' +
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'One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.' +
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— Virginia Woolf';break;
case "23": document.getElementById('id_quotes').innerHTML = 'Anyone who eats three meals a day should understand why cookbooks outsell sex books three to one.' +
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— L. M. Boyd ' +
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'Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.' +
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— Sophia Loren' +
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'I know the look of an apple that is roasting and sizzling on the hearth on a winter's evening, and I know the comfort that comes of eating it hot, along with some sugar and a drench of cream... I know how the nuts taken in conjunction with winter apples, cider, and doughnuts, make old people's tales and old jokes sound fresh and crisp and enchanting.' +
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— Mark Twain';break;
case "24": document.getElementById('id_quotes').innerHTML = 'Soul food is our personal passport to the past. It is much more about heritage than it is about hominy.' +
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— Sarah Ban Breathnach' +
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'After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relatives.' +
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— Oscar Wilde' +
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'A mighty porterhouse steak an inch and a half thick, hot and sputtering from the griddle; dusted with fragrant pepper; enriched with little melting bits of butter of the most unimpeachable freshness and genuineness; the precious juices of the meat trickling out and joining the gravy, archipelagoed with mushrooms; a township or two of tender, yellowish fat gracing an outlying district of this ample county of beefsteak; the long white bone which divides the sirloin from the tenderloin still in its place.' +
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— Mark Twain';break;
case "25": document.getElementById('id_quotes').innerHTML = 'When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.' +
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— John Ruskin' +
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'A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.' +
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— Elsa Schiaparelli' +
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'Cookery means…English thoroughness, French art, and Arabian hospitality; it means the knowledge of all fruits and herbs and balms and spices; it means carefulness, inventiveness, and watchfulness.' +
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— John Ruskin';break;
case "26": document.getElementById('id_quotes').innerHTML = 'Eat your curry, and be brilliant! Why should I make the effort to try something new when I already like the food I eat? Part of the answer lies in the Indian belief that eating more complex and subtly flavored foods exercises the brain, making it better at understanding and appreciating and surviving the subtle complexities of life.' +
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— The Spice House Catalog, on curry powders' +
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'Gleaming skin; a plump elongated shape: the eggplant is a vegetable you'd want to caress with your eyes and fingers, even if you didn't know its luscious flavor.' +
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— Roger Vergé' +
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'Sex is good, but not as good as fresh sweet corn.' +
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— Garrison Keillor';break;
case "27": document.getElementById('id_quotes').innerHTML = 'I come from a home where gravy is a beverage.' +
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— Erma Bombeck' +
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'Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts.' +
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— Proverbs 31:6' +
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'A good meal soothes the soul as it regenerates the body. From the abundance of it flows a benign benevolence.' +
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— Frederick W. Hackwood, 'Good Cheer'';break;
case "28": document.getElementById('id_quotes').innerHTML = 'It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.' +
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— P. G. Wodehouse' +
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'Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.' +
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— Ambrose Bierce' +
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'No mean woman can cook well. It calls for a generous spirit, a light hand, and a large heart.' +
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— Paul Gauguin';break;
case "29": document.getElementById('id_quotes').innerHTML = 'Alcohol is a very necessary article. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.' +
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— George Bernard Shaw' +
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'What a flavor oysters have--mellow, coppery, with almost a creaminess when you chew and analyze. I drank some good beer with them and floated on a gastronomically sensual cloud.' +
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— James Beard' +
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' If man be sensible and one fine morning, while he is lying in bed, counts at the tips of his fingers how many things in this life truly will give him enjoyment, invariably he will find food is the first one.' +
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— Lin Yutang';break;
case "30": document.getElementById('id_quotes').innerHTML = 'You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.' +
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— Saki' +
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' What you eat and drink is 50 percent of life.' +
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— Gérard Depardieu' +
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' Laughter is brightest where food is best.' +
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— Irish Proverb';break;
case "31": document.getElementById('id_quotes').innerHTML = 'We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink, for dining alone is leading the life of a lion or wolf.' +
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— Epicurus' +
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'There is no technique, there is just the way to do it. Now, are we going to measure or are we going to cook?' +
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— Frances Mayes, in Under the Tuscan Sun' +
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'The preparation of good food is merely another expression of art, one of the joys of civilized living…' +
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— Dione Lucas';break;
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document.getElementById('id_quotes').innerHTML = 'Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. ' +
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— Helen Keller' +
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'People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.' +
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— Dr. Allan Fromme' +
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'When he took time to help the man up the mountain, lo, he scaled it himself.' +
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— Tibetan Proverb';
break;
}
}