Good Eating

At supper Johnson talked of good eating with uncommon [blank] . "Some people," he said, "have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind my belly very studiously, and very carefully; for I look upon it, that he [blank] does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else," He was, for the moment, not only serious but vehement. " Yet I have heard him, upon other occasions, talk [blank] great contempt of people who were anxious to gratify their palates; and the 206th number of his Rambler is a masterly essay [blank] gulosity. His practice, indeed, I must acknowledge, may be considered as casting the balance of his different opinions upon this subject; for I never knew any man who relished good eating more [blank] he did.