Voltaire Quotes About Cooking
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I confess that my stomach does not take to this style of cooking. I cannot accept calves sweetbreads swimming in a salty sauce, nor can I eat mince consisting of turkey, hare, and rabbit, which they try to persuade me comes from a single animal... As for the cooks, I really cannot be expected to put up with this ham essence, nor the excessive quantity of morels and other mushrooms, pepper, and nutmeg with which they disguise perfectly good food.
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Ice-cream is exquisite - what a pity it isn't illegal.
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Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
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A good cook is a certain slow poisoner, if you are not temperate.
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