Food Quotes - Page 15

Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.

Organic farming appealed to me because it involved searching for and discovering nature's pathways, as opposed to the formulaic approach of chemical farming. The appeal of organic farming is boundless; this mountain has no top, this river has no end.

Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.

When the wine is in, the wit is out.

The 12-step chocolate program: NEVER BE MORE THAN 12 STEPS AWAY FROM CHOCOLATE!

I don't want to spend my life not having good food going into my pie hole. That hole was made for pies.

A Georgia peach, a real Georgia peach, a backyard great-grandmother's orchard peach, is as thickly furred as a sweater, and so fluent and sweet that once you bite through the flannel, it brings tears to your eyes.

Bread is the king of the table and all else is merely the court that surrounds the king. The countries are the soup, the meat, the vegetables, the salad, but bread is king.

A world without tomatoes is like a string quartet without violins.

Great restaurants are, of course, nothing but mouth-brothels. There is no point in going to them if one intends to keep one's belt buckled.

After eating chocolate you feel godlike, as though you can conquer enemies, lead armies, entice lovers.

If we can have a fast food restaurant on almost every corner, then we can certainly have a garden.

Countries like ours are full of people who have all of the material comforts they desire, yet lead lives of quiet (and at times noisy) desperation, understanding nothing but the fact that there is a hole inside them and that however much food and drink they pour into it, however many motorcars and television sets they stuff it with, however many well-balanced children and loyal friends they parade around the edges of it. . . it aches!

Confit is the ultimate comfort food, and trendy or not, it is dazzling stuff.

In Italy, they add work and life on to food and wine.

The onion is the truffle of the poor.

Don't run I never liked fast food

Said Aristotle unto Plato, 'Have another sweet potato?' Said Plato unto Aristotle, 'Thank you, I prefer the bottle.'

Cooking is an art, but you eat it too.

No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, the wisdom of cookbook writers.

Never drink black coffee at lunch; it will keep you awake all afternoon.

Vegetarians have wicked, shifty eyes, and laugh in a cold calculating manner. They pinch little children, steal stamps, drink water, favor beards.

I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.

I prefer to regard a dessert as I would imagine the perfect woman: subtle, a little bittersweet, not blowsy and extrovert. Delicately made up, not highly rouged. Holding back, not exposing everything and, of course, with a flavor that lasts.

Today's food trucks are far from cheap eats on wheels, there are some seriously gourmet offerings on four wheels.