Food Quotes - Page 37

To live, we must daily break the body and shed the blood of Creation. When we do this knowingly, lovingly, skillfully, reverently, it is a sacrament. When we do it ignorantly, greedily, clumsily, destructively, it is a desecration. In such desecration we condemn ourselves to spiritual and moral loneliness, and others to want.

It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs.

People want honest, flavourful food, not some show-off meal that takes days to prepare.

Preparing food is not just about yourself and others. It is about everything!

Coffee isn't my cup of tea.

Sometimes the way to a man's heart is through his talleywacker.

The quickest way to a man's heart is through his chest.

For the organic food, the less it's designed, the better it is

Hunger is the best sauce in the world.

My favorite food in the world is Mexican food. I'm not a dessert person. I'm more of a crunchy, salty girl. I could live on chips and salsa. I would take a Mexican meal over some fancy French cuisine anytime.

You are what what you eat eats.

If I could only have one type of food with me, I would bring soy sauce. The reason being that if I have soy sauce, I can flavor a lot of things.

Thanksgiving Day - Let all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks, now, but the turkeys. In the island of Fiji they do not use turkeys, they use plumbers. It does not become you and me to sneer at Fiji.

Here we supped . . ., having amongst other dainties, a dish of truffles, an earth nut found by an hogg trained to it.

And now, dear Lord, I cannot wait Because I have a luncheon date.

Kale is a superfood and it’s special power is tasting bad.

People think that if a man has undergone any hardship, he should have a reward; but for my part, if I have done the hardest possible day's work, and then come to sit down in a corner and eat my supper comfortably -why, then I don't think I deserve any reward for my hard day's work -for am I not now at peace? Is not my supper good?

The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.

Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.

I don't like to generalize but I've had nothing but bad experiences with Mexican food in Europe.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

Roast Beef, Medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy. ... Roast Beef, Medium, is safe, and sane, and sure.

I can pretty much live without fast food. I haven't eaten McDonald's in so long, but it's okay.

What? Sunday morning in an English family and no sausages? God bless my soul, what's the world coming to, eh?

Give me a platter of choice finnan haddie, freshly cooked in its bath of water and milk, add melted butter, a slice or two of hot toast, a pot of steaming Darjeeling tea, and you may tell the butler to dispense with the caviar, truffles and nightingales' tongues.