Food Quotes - Page 10

I like liquor - its taste and its effects - and that is just the reason why I never drink it.

Life is half delicious yogurt, half crap, and your job is to keep the plastic spoon in the yogurt.

Salt is born of the purest parents: the sun and the sea.

Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters.

Watch a French housewife as she makes her way slowly along the loaded stalls... searching for the peak of ripeness and flavor... What you are seeing is a true artist at work, patiently assembling all the materials of her craft, just as the painter squeezes oil colors onto his palette ready to create a masterpiece.

Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.

So long as people don't know how to eat they will not have good cooks.

I just want one day off when I can go swimming and eat ice cream and look at rainbows.

The United States spends over $87 billion conducting a war in Iraq while the United Nations estimates that for less than half that amount we could provide clean water, adequate diets, sanitations services and basic education to every person on the planet. And we wonder why terrorists attack us.

I love food, all types of food. I love Korean food, Japanese, Italian, French. In Australia, we don't have a distinctive Australian food, so we have food from everywhere all around the world. We're very multicultural, so we grew up with lots of different types of food.

Wine is sunlight, held together by water.

I am not a glutton - I am an explorer of food

Watermelon - it's a good fruit. You eat, you drink, you wash your face.

Kitchens should be designed around what's truly important-fun, food, and life.

They put arsenic in his meat And stared aghast to watch him eat; They poured strychnine in his cup And shook to see him drink it up.

When the waitress asked if I wanted my pizza cut into four or eight slices, I said, 'Four. I don't think I can eat eight.'

I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead - not sick, not wounded - dead.

A fruit is a vegetable with looks and money. Plus, if you let fruit rot, it turns into wine, something brussel sprouts never do.

Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.

What we're really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving?

A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you have that basis, that's when cuisine is truly exciting.

Rule of thumb: Eat for what you're going to be doing, and not for what you have done. Don't take in more than you're willing to burn off.

The dinner table is the center for the teaching and practicing not just of table manners but of conversation, consideration, tolerance, family feeling, and just about all the other accomplishments of polite society except the minuet.

I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, 'I'd like some fries.' The girl at the counter said, 'Would you like some fries with that?'

We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.