Food Quotes - Page 20

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

This work, though it deals only with eating and drinking, which are regarded in the eyes of our supernaturalistic mock-culture as the lowest acts, is of the greatest philosophic significance and importance... How former philosophers have broken their heads over the question of the bond between body and soul! Now we know, on scientific grounds, what the masses know from long experience, that eating and drinking hold together body and soul, that the searched-for bond is nutrition.

A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.

Smell and taste are in fact but a single composite sense, whose laboratory is the mouth and its chimney the nose.

So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

To eat figs off the tree in the very early morning, when they have been barely touched by the sun, is one of the exquisite pleasures of the Mediterranean.

We need a new definition of malnutrition. Malnutrition means under- and over-nutrition. Malnutrition means emaciated and obese.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living.

Food without wine is a corpse; wine without food is a ghost; united and well matched they are as body and soul, living partners.

The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.

Everything in moderation, including moderation.

Our bodily food is changed into us, but our spiritual food changes us into it.

If any man has drunk a little too deeply from the cup of physical pleasure; if he has spent too much time at his desk that should have been spent asleep; if his fine spirits have become temporarily dulled; if he finds the air too damp, the minutes too slow, and the atmosphere too heavy to withstand; if he is obsessed by a fixed idea which bars him from any freedom of thought: if he is any of these poor creatures, we say, let him be given a good pint of amber-flavored chocolate... and marvels will be performed.

I am more than ever convinced that what we eat today is what we are tomorrow.

The act of putting into your mouth what the earth has grown is perhaps your most direct interaction with the earth.

The kind of crabbing my wife likes to do is to return from an afternoon's swim or sunbathing session, open the refrigerator door, and find a generous plate of crab cakes all ready to cook.

Good food is always a trouble and its preparation should be regarded as a labour of love.

My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order.

No one ever went to their deathbed saying, 'You know, I wish I'd eaten more rice cakes.

Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.

The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.

Stop short of your appetite; eat less than you are able.

Food is a central activity of mankind and one of the single most significant trademarks of a culture.

What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking!