Food Quotes - Page 24

Very well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

The mere smell of cooking can evoke a whole civilization.

Stomach: A slave that must accept everything that is given to it, but which avenges wrongs as slyly as does the slave.

Exercise is a dirty word. Every time I hear it I wash my mouth out with chocolate.

All knives and forks were working away at a rate that was quite alarming; very few words were spoken; and everybody seemed to eat his utmost, in self defence, as if a famine were expected to set in before breakfast-time to-morrow morning, and it had become high time to assert the first law of nature.

He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart

Dear Lord, I've been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us... a turkey which was no doubt a lively, intelligent bird... a social being... capable of actual affection... nuzzling its young with almost human- like compassion. Anyway, it's dead and we're gonna eat it. Please give our respects to its family.

Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.

Pork - no animal is more used for nourishment and none more indispensable in the kitchen; employed either fresh or salt, all is useful, even to its bristles and its blood; it is the superfluous riches of the farmer, and helps to pay the rent of the cottager.

It is the destiny of mint to be crushed.

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

I have no truck with lettuce, cabbage, and similar chlorophyll. Any dietitian will tell you that a running foot of apple strudel contains four times the vitamins of a bushel of beans.

I always knew that food and wine were vital, with my mother being Italian and a good cook.

God made yeast, as well as dough, and loves fermentation just as dearly as he loves vegetation.

We manage to swallow flesh, only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing we do.

I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

This is every cook's opinion - no savory dish without an onion, but lest your kissing should be spoiled your onions must be fully boiled.

I believe that if ever I had to practice cannibalism, I might manage if there were enough tarragon around.

I am not strict vegan, because I'm a hedonist pig. If I see a big chocolate cake that is made with eggs, I'll have it.

A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.

That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund.

When we learn to eat properly we begin to rebuild our bodies and to fulfill our purpose on this planet to grow in health, creativity, wisdom, and compassion.

Agriculture is not crop production as popular belief holds - it's the production of food and fiber from the world's land and waters. Without agriculture it is not possible to have a city, stock market, banks, university, church or army. Agriculture is the foundation of civilization and any stable economy.

Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.