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The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down,. Each day brings only two opportunities for field work, and they are not to be wasted minimizing the intake of cholesterol.
- A.J. Liebling, Between Meals, p. 557 in The Sweet Science & Other Writings
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