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"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."

"Peanut butter is a poor man's marmalade."

"We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun."

"In corn, I think I've found the key to the American food chain. If you look at a fast-food meal, a McDonald's meal, virtually all the carbon in it - and what we eat is mostly carbon - comes from corn."

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"The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite."