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Wisdom about food & cooking.
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From the library
Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.
Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.
Their court(-yards and buildings) shall be well kept, but their fields shall be ill-cultivated, and their granaries very empty. They shall wear elegant and ornamented robes, carry a sharp sword at their girdle, pamper themselves in eating and drinking, and have a superabundance of property and wealth;—such (princes) may be called robbers and boasters. This is contrary to the Tao surely!
For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory.
She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.
He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor.
Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
To have respect of persons is not good: for for a piece of bread that man will transgress.
The righteous eateth to the satisfying of his soul: but the belly of the wicked shall want.
Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.
Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
He that is despised, and hath a servant, is better than he that honoureth himself, and lacketh bread.
A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth: but the soul of the transgressors shall eat violence.
She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens.
Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.
He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that followeth vain persons is void of understanding.
He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough.
The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.