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An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.

An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.

A. J. Liebling
Travel, Food, Teaching

The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.

A. J. Liebling
Food, Writing, Cooking
A. J. Liebling (2005). “Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer”, p.27, Macmillan

In the light of what Proust wrote with so mild a stimulus, it is the world's loss that he did not have a heartier appetite. On a dozen Gardiner's Island oysters, a bowl of clam chowder, a peck of steamers, some bay scallops, three sauteed soft-shelled crabs, a few ears of fresh picked corn, a thin swordfish steak of generous area, a pair of lobsters, and a Long Island Duck, he might have written a masterpiece.

A. J. Liebling
Food, Loss, Light

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