Food and Drink in Manchester

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“Arguably the only goods people need these days are food and nappies.”
—Terence, Sir Conran (b. 1931)

“It is the mark of a mean, vulgar and ignoble spirit to dwell on the thought of food before meal times or worse to dwell on it afterwards, to discuss it and wallow in the remembered pleasures of every mouthful. Those whose minds dwell before dinner on the spit, and after on the dishes, are fit only to be scullions.”
—Francis De Sales, Saint (1567–1622)

“I know you’re trying, Don. We’re both trying. You’re trying not to drink and I’m trying not to love you.”
—Billy Wilder (b. 1906)

“The [nineteenth-century] young men who were Puritans in politics were anti-Puritans in literature. They were willing to die for the independence of Poland or the Manchester Fenians; and they relaxed their tension by voluptuous reading in Swinburne.”
—Rebecca West (1892–1983)