“Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.” — Sophia Loren, actress

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Excerpt from Delish
By Sara Schwartz
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“Health food makes me sick.” —
Calvin Trillin, writer
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“Never eat more than you can lift.” —
Miss Piggy, Muppet extraordinaire
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“I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.” —
Julia Child, celebrity chef and cookbook author
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“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” —
J.R.R. Tolkien, author of the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
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“To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living.”
— Anthony Bourdain, celebrity chef and host ofNo Reservations
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“Slicing a warm slab of bacon is a lot like giving a ferret a shave. No matter how careful you are, somebody’s going to get hurt.” —
Alton Brown, celebrity chef and host of Good Eats
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“My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four unless there are three other people.” —
Orson Welles, author
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“The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.”
— Calvin Trillin, writer
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“Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.” —
Robert Redford, actor/director
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“By the time they had diminished from 50 to 8, the other dwarves began to suspect ‘Hungry’…” —
Gary Larson, The Far Side, humorist
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“Give me liberty or… OOOooo… A jelly donut !” -—
Homer Simpson, cartoon dad
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“One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.” —
Luciano Pavarotti and William Wright
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“The way you cut your meat reflects the way you live.”
— Confucius
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“I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick, not wounded: dead.”
— Woody Allen, actor/director
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“My mom made two dishes: Take it or Leave it.” —
Stephen Wright, comedian
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“In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport “—
Julia Child, celebrity chef and cookbook author
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“The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat. —
Albert Einstein, physicist
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