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	Tea Council, The - Independent body dedicated to promoting tea and its unique story for the benefit of those who produce, sell and enjoy tea the world over.
	UKcider - A community site for enthusiasts of Real Cider, Scrumpy and Perry. It includes a forum, members' recommendations for pubs and ciders, general history and information.
	Jane Asher Party Cakes - Jane Asher's World famous Cake and Sugarcraft Shop. Mail order available on limited range.
	Choose French Cheese - Promoting the range of French Cheeses available in the UK. Competitions, recipe of the week and tips on buying and storing cheeses.
	Tea Party - Facts about tea, from the UK Tea Council
	About Food - Resource site dedicated to fine food in Britain. Searchable directory of over 4500 fine food producers and retailers, plus features, recipes, guides, issues, events and a growing library of food writing.
	Tea and Health - Facts and reports on tea and health from the Tea Council
	Tea Trail, The - An educational resource for young explorers looking for information on tea.
	School Milk - Fun guide to milk at school, with resources for children and teachers.
	Curry House, The - Regional and restaurant-style curry recipes, curry faq, a guide to curry restaurants in the UK, links to hot and spicy food sites, articles on the UK curry scene
	British Cheese Board - Promoting all aspects and types of British cheese.
	Kingfisher World Curry Week: 21-27 October, 2001 - Raising funds for the charity Action Against Hunger.
	Beer Mad - Features a database of thousands of British real-ales from hundreds of breweries, searchable by brewery, beer or location. Also has extensive ale-related links.
	British Sugarcraft Guild National Site - Diary of events, membership details, list of services and full details about the guild.
	About Cooking / Food UK - Directory of food sites, recipes, links, articles, discussions, competitions, and news. Expert advice on any food-related matter.
	Mr. and Mrs. Nicolello - Sugar craft courses, books and photographs.
	foodndrink - Site dedicated to food and drink. Includes restaurant guide and recipes as well as news and articles.
	The Meating Place - Directory of butchers and delicatessen in the UK.
	Passionate About Food - Offers daily news and articles, cooking tips, recipes, herbs and spices information and a guide to cooking techniques.
	Heather Grant - Food writer and caterer. Contact details.
	German Wine Information - News and competitions and "wine tutor".
	Sue Style, - Books on various regions plus recipes, restaurant reviews and people profiles.

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If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes. -- Lewis Grizzard The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things. -- Jilly Cooper Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as Brutus loved Caesar. -- Bill Moyers Food and Drink "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer. -- Charles Caleb Colton "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as Brutus loved Caesar. -- Bill Moyers Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and shorts for the last four years? -- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Food and Drink Things are more like they are now than they ever were before. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. -- Tom Robbins Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to. -- Seen on a t-shirt Food and Drink "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again. -- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total ins Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. -- Anonymous No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first. -- Cesare Pavese Food and Drink "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and stupid from The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. -- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Food and Drink Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age. -- Jeanne Moreau "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince. -- American Proverb "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens. -- Benjamin Disraeli Food and Drink The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one. -- Ellen Hubbard "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. -- Henry James Food and Drink Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson All television is children's television. -- Richard P. Adler Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely. -- Buddha Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Food and Drink "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home. -- Betty Bender We do not remember days; we remember moments. -- Anonymous Food and Drink If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be. -- Richard Mitchell, from "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim. -- George Santayana "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive. -- G. K. Chesterton Food and Drink When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that. -- Bill Parcels, New Engla If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Food and Drink If God does not exist, then everything is permitted. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. - Buckminster The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not. -- Robert G. Ingersoll Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in Heaven. -- P. J Food and Drink It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them. -- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. -- Oscar Wilde There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job. -- George Crane Food and Drink It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail. -- Gore Vidal Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. -- Mother Teresa It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned. -- Leslie Jeanne Sahler "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Food and Drink I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back. -- Henny Youngman "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) I criticize by creation - not by finding fault. - Cicero Food and Drink "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. -- Helen Keller Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of. -- Peter Ustinov You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty. - Sacha Guitry Few things are harder to put up with than a good example. - Mark Twain Food and Drink In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore: ? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties. ? Work Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson. -- Vernon Law The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. - Emile Zola Food and Drink Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected. -- Oscar Wilde The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. - Lucille S. Harper Food and Drink "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my future crimes. -- Prince You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play. -- WARREN BEATTY Food and Drink Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link |