Food Quotes - Page 22

Almost every person has something secret he likes to eat.

Two things only the people actually desire: bread and circuses.

Dining with one's friends and beloved family is certainly one of life's primal and most innocent delights, one that is both soul-satisfying and eternal.

Do you have a kinder, more adaptable friend in the food world than soup? Who soothes you when you are ill? Who refuses to leave you when you are impoverished and stretches its resources to give a hearty sustenance and cheer? Who warms you in the winter and cools you in the summer? Yet who also is capable of doing honor to your richest table and impressing your most demanding guests? Soup does its loyal best, no matter what undignified conditions are imposed upon it. You don't catch steak hanging around when you're poor and sick, do you?

Marmalade in the morning has the same effect on taste buds that a cold shower has on the body.

The cucumber and the tomato are both fruit; the avocado is a nut. To assist with the dietary requirements of vegetarians, on the first Tuesday of the month a chicken is officially a vegetable.

From quite an early age I realised the effect that good food can have on others.

Popcorn for breakfast! Why not? It's a grain. It's like grits, but with high self-esteem.

Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces.

My only regret in life is that I did not drink more wine.

The quest for slowness, which begins as a simple rebellion against the impoverishment of taste in our lives, makes it possible to rediscover taste.

Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.

Right afterward I read Fast Food Nation. That book changed my life: It made me a vegetarian.

You know I don't care about what I eat. I love food so much, I can't affect the way I eat.

Food makes my mind sluggish.

All men are hungry. They always have been. They must eat, and when they deny themselves the pleasures of carrying out that need, they are cutting off part of their possible fullness, their natural realization of life, whether they are rich or poor.

Things that really matter are the things that gold can't buy, so let's have another cup o' coffee and let's have another piece o' pie.

Summer cooking implies a sense of immediacy, a capacity to capture the essence of the fleeting moment.

Seriously, if someone don't like this appetizer, you gotta grab they scruffy ass by the back of their neck and throw them out on the lawn. I can't help people like that.

Breakfast is a notoriously difficult meal to serve with a flourish.

Presently, we were aware of an odour gradually coming towards us, something musky, fiery, savoury, mysterious, - a hot drowsy smell, that lulls the senses, and yet enflames them, - the truffles were coming.

Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.

It's some chopped liver. That's Jewish soul food.

Playwrights are like men who have been dining for a month in an Indian restaurant. After eating curry night after night, they deny the existence of asparagus.

Triangular sandwiches taste better than square ones.