Allison Sheardy
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“A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.”
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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.”
― A Moveable Feast
― A Moveable Feast
“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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most of them, but never the potatoes that went with them.”
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“The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of the human race than the discovery of a star.”
― The Physiology of Taste: Or, Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy
― The Physiology of Taste: Or, Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy
“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
― A Room of One’s Own
― A Room of One’s Own
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