Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

I had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado or ceremony, than feed upon turkey at another man's table, where one is fain to sit mincing and chewing his meat an hour together, drink little, be always wiping his fingers and his chops, and never dare to cough nor sneeze, though he has never so much a mind to it, nor do a many things which a body may do freely by one's self.

Miguel de Cervantes

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• Fingers
• Ceremony
• Onion
• Wiping

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• From Japan to Thailand, I keep discovering amazing talent, cuisine and food markets.

  

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• GM has never been about feeding the world or tackling environmental problems. It is and has always been about control of the global food economy by a tiny handful of giant corporations. It's not wicked to question that process. It is wicked not to.

  

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• Food can change anything.

  

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• My relationship to food is that of an acrophobe to a bridge. Unease masks a desire to jump.

  

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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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• Wherever I go, as long as I get a hot vegetable dish, I am okay. If I am in Gujarat, I have Gujarati food. If it's Shillong, it's northeastern.

  

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• I loved everything about Spain - the people, the language, and the food!

  

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• When it comes to literal nourishment, the food we eat, life begets life.

  

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• I would never totally deny myself any specific type of food.

  

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  • Food
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• Fusion food as a concept is kind of trying to quite consciously fuse things that are sometimes quite contradictory, sometimes quite far apart, to see if they'd work.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Food

• A healthy mind and body are essential. No excesses. Proper food. The body is like a Rolls-Royce. With care, it could last 200 years. It's a dynamo; the more you use it, the more you recharge it.

  

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• I should probably confess that ice cream is my favorite food, and I eat it every night. When I go grocery shopping, I try to buy a new flavor, rather than reverting back to a favorite flavor. I'm on a mission to taste every flavor of ice cream out there!

  

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• You can't have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.

  

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• I had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado or ceremony, than feed upon turkey at another man's table, where one is fain to sit mincing and chewing his meat an hour together, drink little, be always wiping his fingers and his chops, and never dare to cough nor sneeze, though he has never so much a mind to it, nor do a many things which a body may do freely by one's self.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Food
  • Fingers
  • Ceremony