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"I've decided that chefs who proclaim, 'That's what I'm talking about!', after tasting their creation are fools. If they'd prepared the dish properly, there'd be no ability to speak, only Mmmm! sounds."

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"Cooking is an art and patience a virtue... Careful shopping, fresh ingredients and an unhurried approach are nearly all you need. There is one more thing - love. Love for food and love for those you invite to your table. With a combination of these things you can be an artist - not perhaps in the representational style of a Dutch master, but rather more like Gauguin, the naïve, or Van Gogh, the impressionist. Plates or pictures of sunshine taste of happiness and love."

~Keith Floyd, 'A Feast of Floyd'

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“If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people”

~Chinese proverb

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"Cheese—milk's leap toward immortality."

~Clifton Paul Fadiman

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The pecan (Carya illinoensis) is native to the Americas and naturally distributed in the Mississippi Valley and the river valleys of Texas. The Indians introduced pecans to the white man by trading for tools and trinkets. In this way, the traders moved the pecan from its native range to the eastern states. The first pecan nursery was established in 1772 and from this small beginning, pecan production has grown into a multimillion dollar industry in Florida and South Georgia.

~The Farm Store

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Whenever fall comes,

I smell delicious fresh pie

With a sweet topping.

~Jordyn Muller, from Mary Inglis' fifth-period English class, Wellington Community High School

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"Nothing ever tastes bad with a little extra cheese on top, it just never hurt a thing in its life."

~Paula Deen

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“We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history”

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie."

~Jim Davis

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"It is neither the quality nor the quantity, but the devotion to sensual savors; when that which is eaten is not a viand to sustain our animal, or inspire our spiritual life, but food for the worms that possess us."

~Henry David Thoreau, Walden