Food Quotes - Page 26

I'll tell you something about tough times. They just about kill you, but if you decide to keep working at them, you'll find your way through.

Love is an ice cream sundae, with all the marvelous coverings. Sex is the cherry on top.

Appetite comes with eating.....but thirst goes away with drinking.

Until a vegan or vegetarian enters the room, people don't see themselves as meat-eaters. They are merely 'eaters', and it is we vegans who have made them aware of what they are doing. Often this is discomforting.

The rat stops gnawing in the wood, the dungeon walls withdraw, the weight is lifted your pulse steadies and the sun has found your heart, the day was not bad, the season has not been bad, there is sense and even promise in going on.

I will not move my army without onions.

Food is an implement of magic, and only the most coldhearted rationalist could squeeze the juices of life out of it and make it bland. In a true sense, a cookbook is the best source of psychological advice and the kitchen the first choice of room for a therapy of the world.

I can't stay away from Chinese food. I really love that stuff.

I love the Chinese words for greeting: not strictly 'Hello' but 'Have you eaten yet?

I am not one to turn down macaroni and cheese, even late at night. I love Italian food. I love pasta... A refrigerator full of water and Gatorade? Honey, that's just not gonna happen.

A hungry man can't see right or wrong. He just sees food.

The Italians were eating with forks when the French were still eating each other.

There are five elements: earth, air, fire, water and garlic.

A man that lives on pork, fine-flour bread, rich pies and cakes, and condiments, drinks tea and coffee, and uses tobacco, might as well try to fly as to be chaste in thought.

A number of rare or newly experienced foods have been claimed to be aphrodisiacs. At one time this quality was even ascribed to the tomato. Reflect on that when you are next preparing the family salad.

I want every peasant to have a chicken in his pot on Sundays.

Ever since Eve started it all by offering Adam the apple, woman's punishment has been to supply a man with food then suffer the consequences when it disagrees with him.

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most.

Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill.

What is literature compared with cooking? The one is shadow, the other is substance.

Life... is like a grapefruit. Well, it's sort of orangey-yellow and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, too. Oh, and some people have half a one for breakfast.

Half of the receipts in our cookbooks are mere murder to such constitutions and stomachs as we grow here. ...in America, owing to our brighter skies and more fervid climate, we have developed an acute, nervous delicacy of temperament far more akin to that of France than of England.

Eating highly seasoned food is unhealthful, because it stimulates too much, provokes the appetite too much, and often is indigestible.

Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.