Food Quotes - Page 34

The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small.

Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.

How can you eat anything with eyes?

Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness.

Anyone who thinks they're too grown up or too sophisticated to eat caramel corn, is not invited to my house for dinner

It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available.

It is odd how all men develop the notion, as they grow older, that their mothers were wonderful cooks. I have yet to meet a man who will admit that his mother was a kitchen assassin and nearly poisoned him.

If I were a headmaster, I would get rid of the history teacher and get a chocolate teacher instead and my pupils would study a subject that affected all of them.

How come when you mix water and flour together you get glue...and then you add eggs and sugar and you get cake? Where does the glue go?

Since, during storms, flames leap from the humid vapors and dark clouds emit deafening noises, is it surprising the lightning, when it strikes the ground, gives rise to truffles, which do not resemble plants?

And you stagger down to break your fast. Greasy bacon and lacquered eggs And coffee composed of frigid dregs.

A man should not so much respect what he eats, as with whom he eats.

Shake the hand that feeds you.

Soup not only warms you and is easy to swallow and to digest, it also creates the illusion in the back of your mind that Mother is there.

Once you become an elaborate and well-developed culture, anything from Rome or the Etruscans, for that matter, the food starts to become a representation of what the culture is. When the food can transcend being just fuel, that's when you start to see these different permutations.

food is never just something to eat.

Caviar is to dining what a sable coat is to a girl in evening dress.

That's my favorite food group: donut. I love the donut.

I think if I were a woman I'd wear coffee as a perfume.

How can people say they don't eat eggplant when God loves the color and the French love the name? I don't under'stand.

If you have formed the habit of checking on every new diet that comes along, you will find that, mercifully, they all blur together, leaving you with only one definite piece of information: french-fried potatoes are out.

I always ask at once, 'Do you drink?' and if she says 'No,' I bow politely and say I am sorry but I fear she will not suit. All good cooks drink.

When you become a good cook, you become a good craftsman, first. You repeat and repeat and repeat until your hands know how to move without thinking about it.

Dine we must and we may as well dine elegantly as well as wholesomely.

One can say everything best over a meal.