Benjamin Franklin Quotes about Cooking
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In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
Poor Richard's Almanack (1734)
James C. Humes, Benjamin Franklin (1995). “The wit and wisdom of Benjamin Franklin: a treasury of more than 900 quotations and anecdotes”, Harpercollins