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Jim Harrison

"I used to get criticized for putting food in novels."

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"Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage."

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"The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small."

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"There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick."

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"A mighty porterhouse steak an inch and a half thick, hot and sputtering from the griddle; dusted with fragrant pepper; enriched with little melting bits of butter of the most impeachable freshness and genuineness; the precious juices of the meat trickling out and joining the gravy, archipelagoed with mushrooms; a township or two of tender, yellowish fat gracing an out-lying district of this ample county of beefsteak; the long white bone which divides the sirloin from the tenderloin still in its place."

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"New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin."

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"No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company."

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

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"There is no sincerer love than the love of food."

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