Food Quotes - Page 38

In moments of considerable strain, I tend to take to bread-and-butter pudding. There is something about the blandness of soggy bread, the crispness of the golden outer crust and the unadulterated pleasure of a lightly set custard that makes the world seem a better place to live.

You can never go wrong betting on Americans' bad eating habits. So I've made a ton investing in all fast food chains, while at the same time investing in Dockers, spandex, Spanx, and sweatpants. Basically, anything with an elastic waistband is a goldmine.

What hunger is in relation to food, zest is in relation to life.

Kill no more pigeons than you can eat.

Food is my drug of choice.

Americans are just beginning to regard food the way the French always have. Dinner is not what you do in the evening before something else. Dinner is the evening.

Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.

Give them great meals of beef and iron and steel, they will eat like wolves and fight like devils.

Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?

Most dear actors, eat no onions nor garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath.

Bait the hook well. This fish will bite.

At that comfortable tavern on Pontchartrain we had a bouillabaisse than which a better was never eaten at Marseilles; and not the least headache in the morning, I give you my word; on the contrary, you only wake with a sweet refreshing thirst for claret and water.

All wholesome food is caught without a net or trap.

A significant part of the pleasure of eating is in one’s accurate consciousness of the lives and the world from which food comes.

I could talk food all day. I love good food.

One of the problems with writing a cookbook is that recipes exist in the moment.

I eat a variety of foods like vegetables, fruit and beef for protein and iron.

I went home and took my wife and went to my Cosen Tho. Pepys's and found them just sat down to dinner, which was very good; only the venison pasty was palpable beef, which was not handsome.

Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.

If you do not believe that a man will commit murder for one can of tomatoes, then you have never been hungry.

I like spaghetti because you don't have to take your eyes off the book to pick about among it, it's all the same.

Do no talk while eating.

1 billion people in the world are chronically hungry. 1 billion people are overweight.

The tradition of Italian cooking is that of the matriarch. This is the cooking of grandma. She didn't waste time thinking too much about the celery. She got the best celery she could and then she dealt with it.

It is a curious fact that no man likes to call himself a glutton, and yet each of us has in him a trace of gluttony, potential or actual. I cannot believe that there exists a single coherent human being who will not confess, at least to himself, that once or twice he has stuffed himself to bursting point on anything from quail financiere to flapjacks, for no other reason than the beastlike satisfaction of his belly.