Food Quotes - Page 25

I love all kinds of bread. Whenever I crave junk food, I want salty things like peanuts or potato chips.

Plant a radish, get a radish, never any doubt. That's why I love vegetables, you know what they're about!

The juice of the grape is the liquid quintessence of concentrated sunbeams.

There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented with a glass that is exactly half full, say: this glass is half full. And then there are those who say: this glass is half empty. The world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say: What's up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don't think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass! Who's been pinching my beer?

The food here is so tasteless you could eat a meal of it and belch and it wouldn't remind you of anything.

As for the garden of mint, the very smell of it alone recovers and refreshes our spirits, as the taste stirs up our appetite for meat.

To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist - the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one's vinegar.

All sorrows are less with bread.

Artichoke: That vegetable of which one has more at the finish than at the start of dinner.

Cat food. It stinks a bit, but if you don't put up with the smell, the little kitten will die.

The appetite is sharpened by the first bites.

My wife is on a new diet. Coconuts and bananas. She hasn't lost weight, but can she climb a tree.

The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach.

Why is it that farmworkers feed the nation but they can't get food stamps?

French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.

Vegetarianism can easily reach religious proportions. Refraining from meat on moral grounds serves to dignify feelings of guilt toward sad-eyed, furry creatures and substitutes righteousness for squeamishness.

You become what you think. You are what you eat.

Avoid at all costs that vile spew you see rotting in oil in screwtop jars. Too lazy to peel fresh? You don't deserve to eat garlic.

CRAYFISH, n. A small crustacean very much resembling the lobster, but less indigestible.

Doctor, do you think it could have been the sausage?

I eat merely to put food out of my mind.

My friend asked me if I wanted a frozen banana. I said 'No, but I want a regular banana later, so... yeah.'

Food safety involves everybody in the food chain.

If time, so fleeting, must like humans die, let it be filled with good food and good talk, and then embalmed in the perfumes of conviviality.

Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.