Food Quotes
As a dinner guest I gratefully eat just about anything that's set before me, because graciousness among friends is dearer to me than any other agenda.
Whenever I have nothing better to do, I roast a chicken.
I've swallowed fish-eyes wholelike an endoscope.I once ate a trout cooked inside a dolphin. Felt like a shark eating another shark, inside the cold-blooded womb of yet another shark.
It is worth remembering that at some point in the very distant past, no human had ever drank milk from a cow.
I would rather spend money on something, that fulfills me for eternity. Rather, than something that fulfills me for only an hour or two.
Every salad you serve is a picture you have painted, a sculpture you have modeled, a drama you have created.
The quail was tender, the potatoes smothered in butter, and the beans roasted in garlic.
We don’t “crave” animal-based meat, dairy, and eggs, but we do crave fat, salt, flavor, texture, and familiarity.
Good food, fresh water, and an occasional sweet and someone to care for. That's what everyone should have. A simplistic and unrealistic view I knew, but it soothed me.
Having delivered the expected daily miracle, Floote stood in his usual stance and warily watched the Templars work.
There's a great Lebanese restaurant a few blocks over. They have the best shawarma in the world." "What's shawarma?" "You know what a gyro is?" "No." "Same thing.
Simple natural food is far better than sophisticated food with artificial flavors.
How did we get to the point where we're paying for bottled water? I imagine it was some weird marketing meeting over in France.
Our food is among the most intimate connections we make with the earth.
You see, most people gain weight because they give into cravings. But when you easily (and without feeling like you're depriving yourself) gain control, the extra weight comes off.
The barbeque is the root of all civilization
The greatest advantage of all is that when people think you're a witch, you can eat an entire serving of squash all by yourself.
Although he never speaks of how or what or why, I know that his childhood was difficult, that his parents broke his heart. Books and excess poundage are his insulation against pain.
You can do without sleep or without food, but not without both and sleep wasn't an option.
The food you eat can be either the safest & most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison
We are all warned to read labels. The salutary truth is that we shouldn't be eating anything that has a label on it!
Reversing the historical trajectory of human eating, for this meal the forest would be feeding us again.
But what little we did know, we brandished wildly like cavemen’s clubs, slinging out stuff we felt tasted good. That was as intricate as ourgame plan ever was—to make food that tasted good.
Cooking is not a science but an art, mistakes are okay, messes are fine—the pleasure is in the creating and the sharing of the result.
No matter our age, everyone in our household knows that cooking and eating together is where the fun is
Many a one has been comforted in their sorrow by seeing a good dish come upon the table.
It's the soul that's starving, not the body
I still have my little red hardcover notebook—spine now held in place by packing tape, pages dotted with cooking stains—filled with her loving instructions for mandelbrot, nut cake, and strudel.
Nana’s oven-baked fried chicken cut off the bone (with plenty of ketchup) was a huge hit. So were Thanksgiving turkey bathed in gravy and Nana’s Passover brisket
One time, I went to a restaurant and I asked the waiter for some food for thought. He left, came back, and tried shoving a sirloin in my ear.
My mother use to say she would rather be dead than not eat the foods she liked. At eighty-six she met with death but she enjoyed every breath
The foods that are nearby are best for human beings, and things that he has to struggle to obtain turn out to be the least beneficial of all.
When life gives you lemons, sell them and buy a pineapple. How to better your life 101.
They say you should treat your body like a temple. I treat mine like a fast-moving dumpster.
Share your food with the needy and you shall see that your food will taste much better!
Malnutrition can be as common in poverty as in wealth, one for the lack of food, the other for the lack of knowledge of food.
