“The best sauce in the world is hunger.”
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 5.
“For hunger is a sauce, well blended and prepared, for any food.”
Qu'a toz mangiers est sausse fains
Bien destanpree et bien confite.
Source: Yvain or Le Chevalier au Lion, Line 2854
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