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Basic Needs Food Quotes

"It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others. So it happens that when I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and the hunger for it; and then the warmth and richness and fine reality of hunger satisfied; and it is all one."
M. F. K. Fisher, ‘The Art of Eating’

“Old people shouldn't eat health foods. They need all the preservatives they can get.”
Robert Orben (1927--) American humorist.

“A loaf of bread, the Walrus said,
Is what we chiefly need:
Pepper and vinegar besides
Are very good indeed--
Now if you're ready, Oysters, dear,
We can begin to feed!”
Lewis Carroll  (1832-1898)
(Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)
‘Alice Through the Looking-Glass’

“You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline — it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.”
Frank Zappa