Food Quotes - Page 11

If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.

I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.

Get people back into the kitchen and combat the trend toward processed food and fast food.

I said to my friends that if I was going to starve, I might as well starve where the food is good.

My idea of fast food is a mallard.

Chopsticks are one of the reasons the Chinese never invented custard.

Don't eat fried food, it angries up the blood.

I want order and taste. A well displayed meal is enhanced one hundred per cent in my eyes.

Moderation. Small helpings. Sample a little bit of everything. These are the secrets of happiness and good health.

And what shall I tell you, lady, of the natural secrets I have discovered while cooking? And I often say, when observing these details: had Aristotle prepared victuals, he would have written more.

In the centre of a spacious table rose a pastry as large as a church, flanked on the north by a quarter of cold veal, on the south by an enormous ham, on the east by a monumental pile of butter, and on the west by an enormous dish of artichokes, with a hot sauce.

I like terra firma; the more firma, the less terra.

Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.

So you can settle the fuck down. My mother used to say, "Primero comemos, entonces lo demás." That means, "first we eat, then we do everything else."

If you're using first-class land for biofuels, then you're competing with the growing of food. And so you're actually spiking food prices by moving energy production into agriculture.

The world's population will multiply more rapidly than the available food supply.

The winter evening settles down With smell of steaks in passageways.

Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

All human history attests That happiness for man, - the hungry sinner! - Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner. ~Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto XIII, stanza 99

It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings.

Hunger is not debatable.

When she goes about her kitchen duties, chopping, carving, mixing, whisking, she moves with the grace and precision of a ballet dancer, her fingers plying the food with the dexterity of a croupier.

"I am appalled at the prospect of using water as a vehicle for drugs. Fluoride is a corrosive poison that will produce serious effect on a long-range basis. Any attempt to use the water this way is deplorable." Charles Gordon Heyd, M.D., Past President, American Medical Association.

And I find chopsticks frankly distressing. Am I alone in thinking it odd that a people ingenious enough to invent paper, gunpowder, kites and any number of other useful objects, and who have a noble history extending back 3,000 years haven't yet worked out that a pair of knitting needles is no way to capture food?