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...compulsive eating is basically a refusal to be fully alive. No matter what we weigh, those of us who are compulsive eaters have anorexia of the soul. We refuse to take in what sustains us. We live lives of deprivation. And when we can't stand it any longer, we binge. The way we are able to accomplish all of this is by the simple act of bolting -- of leaving ourselves -- hundreds of times a day. ↗

— Geneen Roth

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There is no technique, there is just the way to do it. Now, are we going to measure or are we going to cook? ↗

— Frances Mayes

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Fools make feasts and wise men eat them. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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They've drunk everything in the house, including a pitcher of African violet plant food I'd just mixed up and was stupid enough to leave on the counter." Tremaine punched Eddie in the shoulder. "I told you it tasted weird." Eddie shrugged. "Tasted okay to me. ↗

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

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When the food runs out, the family reunion is over. It’s cool that out of all my relatives, I’m the only cannibal.   ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#cannibalism #eat #family #family-reunion #food

Leave the gun. Take the Cannoli. ↗

— Peter Clemenza

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Great restaurants are, of course, nothing but mouth-brothels. There is no point in going to them if one intends to keep one's belt buckled. ↗

— Frederic Raphael

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When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach. ↗