Food Quotes - Page 33

Do something. Anything. You're alive, and you'll only be for a few decades, and then it's done. You'll be in the ground, worm food. Make something and don't let fear consume you.

Our heavily meat-centered culture is at the very heart of our waste of the earth's productivity.

The hippopotamus is a vegetarian and looks like a wall. Lions who eat only red meat are sleek and slim. Are nutritionists on the wrong track?

Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you and be silent.

Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate, Whose table once a Guest, but not The second time, is set. Whose crumbs the crows inspect, And with ironic caw Flap past it to the Farmer's corn; Men eat of it and die.

They dined on mince, and slices of quince, Which they ate with a runcible spoon; And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon.

The food in Yugoslavia is fine if you like pork tartare.

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

A hen's egg is, quite simply, a work of art, a masterpiece of design and construction with, it has to be said, brilliant packaging!

I really love good food occasionally, but I need time to enjoy it and I need to be hungry.

I didn't forget your breakfast. I didn't bring your breakfast. Because you didn't eat your din-din.

Grub first, then ethics.

"When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last, "what's the first thing you say to yourself?" "What's for breakfast?" said Pooh. "What do you say, Piglet?" "I say, I wonder what's going to happen exciting today?" said Piglet . Pooh nodded thoughtfully. "It's the same thing," he said. "What's that?" the Unbeliever asked. "Wisdom from the Western Taoist,"I said. "It sounds like something from Winnie-the-Pooh," he said. "It is," I said. "That's not about Taoism," he said. "Oh, yes it is," I said.

There cannot be good living where there is not good drinking.

A good eater must be a good man; for a good eater must have a good digestion, and a good digestion depends upon a good conscience.

Who's your fat friend ?

The right diet directs sexual energy into the parts that matter.

Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one's life.

Good food and good eating are about risk.

High-tech tomatoes. Mysterious milk. Supersquash. Are we supposed to eat this stuff? Or is it going to eat us?

Cooks are in some ways very much like actors; they must be fit and strong, since acting and cooking are two of the most exacting professions. They must be blessed - or cursed, whichever way you care to look at it - with what is called the artistic temperament, which means that if they are to act or cook at all well, it cannot be for duds or dummies.

SATIETY, n. The feeling that one has for the plate after he has eaten its contents, madam.

Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.

Cooking is an observation-based process that you can't do if you're so completely focused on a recipe.

Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.