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A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.
Leo Tolstoy1828–1910Writings on Civil Disobedience and Nonviolence (1886)
- Animals
- Morality
Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
Mark Twain1835–1910
There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.
Mark Twain1835–1910Mark Twain’s Autobiography (1924), Vol. II, p. 98
“It’s broccoli, dear.”
“I say it’s spinach, and I say the hell with it.”
E. B. White1899–1985Caption for a cartoon by Carl Rose in The New Yorker (8 December 1928)
- Comedy
Cooking should be a way of life⁠—an extension of oneself⁠—never a job.
Marco Pierre Whiteborn 1961Marco Pierre White in Hell’s Kitchen (2008)
- Work
Most cooks when they are young tend to overwork their food to hide their lack of confidence and appreciation for Mother Nature. In time they learn that she is the true artist⁠—we’re just the cooks.
Marco Pierre Whiteborn 1961Marco Pierre White in Hell’s Kitchen (2008)
- Nature