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 Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.
 [Fr., Dis moi ce que tu read more 
 Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.
 [Fr., Dis moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es.] 
 Oh, dainty and delicious!
 Food for the gods! Ambrosia for Apicius!
  Worthy to thrill the soul of read more 
 Oh, dainty and delicious!
 Food for the gods! Ambrosia for Apicius!
  Worthy to thrill the soul of sea-born Venus,
   Or titillate the palate of Silenus! 
 But that our feasts
 In every mess have folly, and the feeders
  Digest it with a custom, read more 
 But that our feasts
 In every mess have folly, and the feeders
  Digest it with a custom, I should blush
   To see you so attired, swoon, I think,
    To show myself a glass. 
 For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that 
one teach you again which read more 
 For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that 
one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles 
of God: and are become such as have need of milk, and not of 
strong meat.
 For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of 
righteousness: for he is a babe.
  But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even 
those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern 
both good and evil. 
 And she said, As the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but 
an handful of meal read more 
 And she said, As the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but 
an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: 
and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and 
dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die. 
 Oh, herbaceous treat!
 'Twould tempt the dying anchorite to eat;
  Back to the world he'd turn his read more 
 Oh, herbaceous treat!
 'Twould tempt the dying anchorite to eat;
  Back to the world he'd turn his fleeting soul,
   And plunge his fingers in the salad bowl;
    Serenely full the epicure would say,
     "Fate cannot harm me,--I have dined to-day." 
 No, Antony, take the lot:
 But, first or last, your fine Egyptian cookery
  Shall have the fame. read more 
 No, Antony, take the lot:
 But, first or last, your fine Egyptian cookery
  Shall have the fame. I have heard that Julius Caesar
   Grew faw with feasting there. 
The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
 And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil 
fail, according to the word of read more 
 And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil 
fail, according to the word of the Lord, which he spake by 
Elijah.