11 Quotes by Fran Lebowitz about Food



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    People have been cooking and eating for thousands of years, so if you are the very first to have thought of adding lime juice to scalloped potatoes try to understand there must be a reason for this.

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    Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.

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    Raisins are a thing that lasts, they come in small boxes, and you always feel like eating raisins, even at six in the morning. A raisin is always an appropriate snack.

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    Cheese that is required by law to append the word food to its title does not go well with red wine or fruit.

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    While it is undeniably true that people love a surprise, it is equally true that they are seldom pleased to suddenly and without warning happen upon a series of prunes in what they took to be a normal loin of pork.

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    White grapes are very attractive but when it comes to dessert people generally like cake with icing.

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