Food Quotes

Polly had a gift for baking pies, and she poured her heart and soul into every one she made.

Being a humble person, she gave her pie shop a humble name—PIE.

She rested her head on his shoulder. "You're better than waffles, Matthias Helvar." A small smile curled the Fjerdan's lips. "Let's not say things we don't mean, my love.

Eat your food slowly and chew each bite completely (20-30 chomps is ideal) to facilitate proper digestion.

Adjust your mentality to make veggies a centrepiece of your meals and snacks. Get comfortable with occasionally consuming larger quantities than typical Western diet traditions call for.

Alice wondered if her mother was aware that she wasn’t the only one in town who’d come down with a bad case of Blueberry Fever.

Those who waste bread will be condemned to as many years in purgatory as the number of crumbs wasted and will have to pick those crumbs up, one by one, with their eyelids.

Eating cholesterol and bad fat will contribute to heart disease if and only if you bathe them in a massive lifelong overdose of insulin and glucose.

Ser Tomaso, ” she said. “It is very likely we will all die.” “Or worse, ” said Brown, the first words he’d said in days. Ser Tomaso made a brave face. “Perhaps, ” he said. “But we will eat well.

Exercise stimulates an increase in appetite and calorie consumption such that it results in a draw when it comes to weight management.

Our ancestors went for days without anything to eat, and carbohydrates were extremely scarce for two million years. The truth is, fat is the preferred fuel for human metabolism.

Those men ate like food had just been invented

Pavlov’s dogs will drool at the site of any food, So go ahead and ring the bell, Sing a classical song about it and Then advertises what sells

Since 1985 our [American's] consumption of all added sugars- cane, beet, HFCS, glucose, honey, maple syrup, whatever- has climbed from 128 pounds to 159 pounds per person.

Americans today spend less on food, as a percentage of disposable income (10%), than any other industrialized nation... meaning that we could afford to spend more on food if we chose to.

In fairy tales, ” her mother used to say, “no one ever says I love you. They give food and they kiss. That’s what love is made of.

Here's the thing about dessert--you want it to last. You want to savor it.

If it's dive-bombing you from the air, bury yourself in the sand. It might lose sight of you. Also, no one likes to eat food covered in sand. No one.

Your Primal efforts must be fun, energising and easy to maintain at all times, otherwise, you are destined to fail.

Our ancestors, who were able to survive and reproduce under unimaginably harsh environmental circumstances, refined and perfected the human genetic recipe.

Your original 'factory setting' is to be an efficient fat-burning beast!

Everyone wants to talk-talk-talk. Can't we eat-eat-eat, and then talk?

The thing you learn with Potage Parmentier is that "simple" is not exactly the same as easy.

In America we have gone way beyond sustenance. Eating is an activity. 'Why don’t we get lunch, and then we’ll grab some pizza.

I'm eating' it quick... but I'll remember it a long time.

Radiation does discriminate. If you are sedentary and eating processed foods then you will be more affected than a person that exercises and eats fresh organic food.

we eat for our stomachs, but we hunger with our hearts.

Nearly every historic fruit and vegetable variety once found in the United States has disappeared.

How much better a man feels when he is mixed with halibut and leg of mutton and roebuck

There are people who eat only organic food, and then there are people who don’t have tons of money to waste.

Got anything to eat?" I asked."You know where the gas station is, " said my incredibly nurturing and maternal mother.

Planted, a single corn seed yielded more than 150 fat kernels, often as many as 300, while the return on a seed of wheat was something less than 50:1

Leave something on your plate... 'Better to go to waste than to waist

As grandmothers used to say, 'Better to pay the grocer than the doctor

Farmers facing lower prices have only one option if they want to be able to maintain their standard of living, pay their bills, and service their debt, and that is to produce more [corn]

Pizza is like the entire food pyramid!

[Smil] estimates that two of every five humans on Earth today would not be alive if not for Fritz Haber's invention of the Haber-Bosch process.

Like Cheyenne Mountain, today's fast good conceals remarkable technological advances behind an ordinary-looking façade.

There are some forty-five thousand items in the average American supermarket and more than a quarter of them now contain corn.

By far the biggest portion of a bushel of American commodity corn (about 60% of it, or some 50k kernels) goes to feeding livestock, and much of that goes to feeding America's 100 million beef cattle

A mere four giant meatpacking companies (Tyson subsidiary IBP, Cargill subsidiary Excel, Swift & Company, and National) now slaughter and market four of every five beef cattle born in this country

What gets a steer from 80 to 1100 pounds in fourteen months is tremendous quantities of corn, protein and fat supplements, and an arsenal of new drugs.

Every day between now and his slaughter in six months, 534 [Pollan's steer] will convert 32 pounds of feed into four pounds of gain- new muscle, fat, and bone.

The ratio of feed to flesh in chicken, the most efficient animal by this measure, is two pounds of corn to one of meat, which is why chicken costs less than beef.

Today it [high fructose corn syrup] is the most valuable food product refined from corn, accounting for 530 million bushels every year. (A bushel of corn yields 33 pounds of fructose)

Buy books. Unlike high calorie food, they don't give heart attacks.

Food keeps us alive, as we all know. Nourishment allows us to grow and be healthy. But good cooking takes us beyond survival and into the realms of culture and pleasure.

The best life you can have as you get into old age is good food, good teeth to eat it with, and few worries when you go to bed at night.

You can eat alkaline foods until the cows come home, but if you're a miserable SOB, you're acidic.

Coffe and breakfast with friends. What more could a girl ask for.