“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.”
Ernest Hemingway
“Hold your council before dinner; the full belly hates thinking as well as acting.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“Eat few suppers, and you’ll need few medicines.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“A dog starv’d at his master’s gate
Predicts the ruin of the state.”
“To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“A full belly makes a dull brain.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“We never repent of having eaten too little.”
— Thomas Jefferson Primary source“Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner, or before taking their rest; when they are sick, or aged: in the morning, or when their intellect or their conscience have been aroused, when they hear music, or when they read poetry, they are radicals.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“Eaten bread is soon forgotten.”
— Winston Churchill Primary source“He that never eats too much, will never be lazy.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“SCRAMBLED EGGS ‘JAMES BOND’
For FOUR individualists:
12 fresh eggs
Salt and pepper
5-6 oz. of fresh butter
Break the eggs into a bowl. Beat thoroughly with a fork and season well. In a small copper (or heavy-bottomed saucepan) melt four oz. of the butter. When melted, pour in the eggs and cook over a very low heat, whisking continuously with a small egg whisk.
While the eggs are slightly more moist than you would wish for eating, remove pan from heat, add rest of butter and continue whisking for half a minute, adding the while finely chopped chives or fine herbs. Serve on hot buttered toast in individual copper dishes (for appearance only) with pink champagne (Taittinger) and low music.”
— Ian Fleming Primary sourceFasting Laziness Wine Plans Thinking