Food Quotes - Page 30

To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.

I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage, with my books, my family, and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post which any human power can give.

I love food, I love eating.

Wine is bottled poetry.

I prefer more spicy food to your Italian to be fair.

When I ponder my mind I consistently find It is glued On food.

The best number for a dinner party is two; myself and a damn good head waiter.

You don't have to transcend something that you have no interest in... it may come but it finds no food.

The shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of fueling the body to a ritual of family and community, from the mere animal biology to an act of culture.

Here's to alcohol: the cause of, and answer to, all of life's problems.

If we have some pet animals, we should feed them also before taking our food. Perceive God in every living being and feed them with that attitude.

Let's get out of these wet clothes and into a dry Martini.

In America we eat, collectively, with a glum urge for food to fill us. We are ignorant of flavour. We are as a nation taste-blind.

Cheese has always been a food that both sophisticated and simple humans love.

Life itself is the proper binge.

How can a nation be called great if its bread tastes like kleenex?

Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.

Tis not the meat, but 'tis the appetite makes eating a delight.

Cookery means…English thoroughness, French art, and Arabian hospitality; it means the knowledge of all fruits and herbs and balms and spices; it means carefulness, inventiveness, and watchfulness.

Wine is a successful effort to translate the perishable into the permanent.

Whenever someone asks me if I want water with my scotch, I say, I'm thirsty, not dirty.

Nothing spoils lunch any quicker than a rogue meatball rampaging through your spaghetti.

Gourmandise is an impassioned, rational, and habitual preference for all objects which flatter the sense of taste.

McDonald's announced that it's considering a more humane way of slaughtering its animals. You know they fatten them up and then kill them. You know the same thing they do to their customers, isn't it?

When I buy cookies I eat just four and throw the rest away. But first I spray them with Raid so I won't dig them out of the garbage later. Be careful, though, because Raid really doesn't taste that bad.