Fran Lebowitz Quotes about Food

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My favorite animal is steak.

Fran Lebowitz

Life, Food, Animal

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Bread that must be sliced with an axe is bread that is too nourishing.

Fran Lebowitz

Funny, Food, Cooking

Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.129, Vintage

People have been cooking and eating for thousands of years, so if you are the very first to have thought of adding fresh lime juice to scalloped potatoes try to understand that there must be a reason for this.

Fran Lebowitz

Food, Years, People

Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.127, Vintage

Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.

Fran Lebowitz

Food, Cutting, Vegetables

Fran Lebowitz (2003). “Metropolitan Life/Social Studies”, Steidl / Edition7L

Breakfast cereals that come in the same colors as polyester leisure suits make oversleeping a virtue.

Fran Lebowitz

Food, Cereal, Color

Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.128, Vintage

Large, naked, raw carrots are acceptable as food only to those who live in hutches eagerly awaiting Easter.

Fran Lebowitz

Funny, Easter, Food

Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.129, Vintage

While it is undeniably true that people love a surprise, it is equally true that they are seldom pleased to suddenly and without warning happen upon a series of prunes in what they took to be a normal loin of pork.

Fran Lebowitz

Food, People, Pork

Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.127, Vintage

Japanese food is very pretty and undoubtedly a suitable cuisine in Japan, which is largely populated by people of below average size. Hostesses hell-bent on serving such food to occidentals would be well advised to supplement it with something more substantial and to keep in mind that almost everybody likes french fries.

Fran Lebowitz

Food, Japan, Average

Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.126, Vintage

Raisins are a thing that lasts, they come in small boxes, and you always feel like eating raisins, even at six in the morning. A raisin is always an appropriate snack.

Fran Lebowitz

Morning, Food, Snacks

Cheese that is required by law to append the word food to its title does not go well with red wine or fruit.

Fran Lebowitz

Food, Wine, Law

Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.128, Vintage

If you're going to America, bring your own food.

Fran Lebowitz

Travel, Women, Food

1981 Social Studies,'Fran Lebowitz's Travel Hints'.

Civilised adults do not take apple juice with dinner.

Fran Lebowitz

Food, Apples, Adults

Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.128, Vintage

Cold soup is a very tricky thing and it is a rare hostess who can carry it off. More often than not the dinner guest is left with the impression that had he only come a little earlier he could have gotten it while it was still hot.

Fran Lebowitz

Food, Dinner Guests, Hot

Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.125, Vintage