Food Quotes - Page 35

Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Maybe a person's time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food.

I am a better person when I have less on my plate.

A cheese may disappoint. It may be dull, it may be naive, it may be oversophisticated. Yet it remains cheese, milk's leap toward immortality.

I saw a notice that said "Drink Canada Dry" and I've just started.

What is sauce for the goose may be sauce for the gander, but it is not necessarily sauce for the chicken, the duck, the turkey or the Guinea hen.

The longer I work in nutrition, the more convinced I become that for the healthy person all foods should be delicious.

Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand - a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods - or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized values.

As I ramble through life, whatever be my goal, I will unfortunately always keep my eye upon the doughnut and not upon the whole.

I love food and feel that it is something that should be enjoyed. I eat whatever I want. I just don't overeat.

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.

I always wanted to open a delicatessen in Jerusalem and call it 'Cheeses of Nazareth'.

I like a cook who smiles out loud when he tastes his own work. Let God worry about your modesty; I want to see your enthusiasm.

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry gets the best of the argument.

Revenge is a dish best served cold.

I asked the waiter, 'Is this milk fresh?' He said, 'Lady, three hours ago it was grass.'

If you want to know the people of a nation, I am sure you can judge a great deal more about them from their cooking and eating traditions than you can from the words and actions of their public officials.

Pounding fragrant things - particularly garlic, basil, parsley - is a tremendous antidote to depression. But it applies also to juniper berries, coriander seeds and the grilled fruits of the chilli pepper. Pounding these things produces an alteration in one's being - from sighing with fatigue to inhaling with pleasure. The cheering effects of herbs and alliums cannot be too often reiterated. Virgil's appetite was probably improved equally by pounding garlic as by eating it.

Gluttony is not a secret vice.

The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.

One who goes after the taste of the tongue does not get to know the taste of the heart.

When I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and it is all one.

Hard work should be rewarded by good food.

She knows no difference 'twixt head and privities who devours immense oysters at midnight.

Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, so is the ballet.