Food Quotes - Page 18

You, as a food buyer, have the distinct privilege of proactively participating in shaping the world your children will inherit.

There are genuinely sufficient resources in the world to ensure that no one, nowhere, at no time, should go hungry.

Get out the rye bread and mustard grandma, cause it's GRAND SALAMI TIME!

Developed and benefited from the unsustainable patterns of production and consumption which have produced our present dilemma. It is clear that current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class-involving high meat intake, consumption of large amounts of frozen and convenience foods, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and work-place air-conditioning, and suburban housing-are not sustainable. A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmentally damaging consumption patterns.

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it.

This is my invariable advice to people: Learn how to cook- try new recipes, learn from your mistakes, be fearless, and above all have fun!

Truffle isn't exactly aphrodisiac but under certain circumstances it tends to make women more tender and men more likable

I don't like gourmet cooking or 'this' cooking or 'that' cooking. I like good cooking.

Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; and good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts.

When we drink, we get drunk. When we get drunk, we fall asleep. When we fall asleep, we commit no sin. When we commit no sin, we go to heaven. Sooooo, let's all get drunk and go to heaven!

Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.

My family dumplings are sleek and seductive, yet stout and masculine. They taste of meat, yet of flour. They are wet, yet they are dry. They have weight, but they are light. Airy, yet substantial. Earth, air, fire, water; velvet and elastic! Meat, wheat and magic! They are our family glory!

If there's a sexier sound on this planet than the person you're in love with cooing over the crepes you made for him, I don't know what it is.

We don't need to eat anyone who would run, swim, or fly away if he could.

We plan, we toil, we suffer - in the hope of what? A camel-load of idol's eyes? The title deeds of Radio City? The empire of Asia? A trip to the moon? No, no, no, no. Simply to wake just in time to smell coffee and bacon and eggs.

Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.

Here is a kitchen improvement, in return for Peacock. For roasting or basting a chicken, render down your fat or butter with cider: about a third cider. Let it come together slowly, till the smell of cider and the smell of fat are as one. This will enliven even a frozen chicken.

If I can't have too many truffles, I'll do without truffles.

As much as I love food, I'd have to save my girls!

Cake baking has to be, however innocently, one of the great culinary scams: it implies effort, it implies domestic prowess; but believe me, it's easy.

A Bearnaise sauce is simply an egg yolk, a shallot, a little tarragon vinegar, and butter, but it takes years of practice for the result to be perfect.

When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.

Some sensible person once remarked that you spend the whole of your life either in your bed or in your shoes. Having done the best you can by shoes and bed, devote all the time and resources at your disposal to the building up of a fine kitchen. It will be, as it should be, the most comforting and comfortable room in the house.

You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six.

Self restraint in speech, food, entertainment and vanity are the most essential fundamental of spiritual growth.