Food Quotes - Page 31

America knows nothing of food, love, or art.

A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutrient from cows.

Alcohol is a very necessary article. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.

Acorns were good until bread was found.

Look, there's no metaphysics on earth but chocolates.

But I always felt that I'd rather be provincial hot-tamale than soup without seasoning.

It's food too fine for angels, yet come, take and eat thy fill!

...the true spirit of gastronomic joylessness. Porridge fills the Englishman up, and prunes clear him out.

Hunger makes you restless. you dream about food - not just any food, but perfect food, the best food, magical meals, famous and awe-inspiring, the one piece of meat, the exact taste of buttery corn, tomatoes so ripe they split and sweeten the air, beans so crisp they snap between the teeth, gravy like mother's milk singing to your bloodstream.

I eat at this German-Chinese restaurant and the food is delicious. The only problem is that an hour later you're hungry for power.

Red meat is not bad for you. Now blue-green meat, that's bad for you!

They advertise on the radio for food stamps!

When evening quickens in the street, comes a pause in the day's occupation that is known as the cocktail hour. It marks the lifeward turn. The heart wakens from coma and its dyspnea ends. Its strengthening pulse is to cross over into campground, to believe that the world has not been altogether lost or, if lost, then not altogether in vain.

A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.

I've long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk. Whether we're talking about unpasteurized Stilton, raw oysters or working for organized crime 'associates,' food, for me, has always been an adventure

Texas does not, like any other region, simply have indigenous dishes. It proclaims them. It congratulates you, on your arrival, at having escaped from the slop pails of the other 49 states.

Sauces in cookery are like the first rudiments of grammar - the foundation of all languages.

Eating is always a decision, nobody forces your hand to pick up food and put it into your mouth.

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

Ordinary folk prefer familiar tastes - they'd sooner eat the same things all the time - but a gourmet would sample a fried park bench just to know how it tastes.

God made only water, but man made wine.

A hamburger is an icon of layered circles, the circle being at once the most spiritual and the most sensual of shapes.

Clearly it is not the lovelorn sufferer who seeks solace in chocolate, but rather the chocolate-deprived individual, who, desperate, seeks in mere love a pale approximation of bittersweet euphoria.

Research tells us that fourteen out of any ten individuals like chocolate.

He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.