Food Quotes - Page 39

And Mocha's berry, from Arabia pure, In small fine china cups, came in at last. Gold cups of filigree, made to secure the hand from burning, underneath them place. Cloves, cinnamon and saffron, too, were boiled Up with the coffee, which, I think, they spoiled.

England is merely an island of beef swimming in a warm gulf stream of gravy.

As you get older, you shouldn't waste time drinking bad wine.

Of plants tomatoes seemed the most human, eager and fragile and prone to rot.

Cabbages, whose heads, tightly folded see and hear nothing of this world, dreaming only on the yellow and green magnificence that is hardening within them.

Sadder than destitution, sadder than a beggar is the man who eats alone in public. Nothing more contradicts the laws of man or beast, for animals always do each other the honor of sharing or disputing each other's food.

Those from whom nature has withheld taste invented trousers.

I am still convinced that a good, simple, homemade cookie is preferable to all the store-bought cookies one can find.

There is a particular hapiness in giving a man whom you like very much, good food that you have cooked yourself.

It is to be regretted that domestication has seriously deteriorated the moral character of the duck. In a wild state, he is a faithful husband.....but no sooner is he domesticated than he becomes polygamous, and makes nothing of owning ten or a dozen wives at a time.

Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!

There is no way to understand the public reaction to the sight of a Freak smashing a coconut with a hammer on the hood of a white Cadillac in a Safeway parking lot unless you actually do it, and I tell you it's tense.

A human being is primarily a bag for putting food into.

Cookery is naturally the most ancient of the arts, as of all arts it is the most important.

And, of course, the funniest food of all, kumquats.

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does it more slowly but perhaps just as surely. Who knows if a well-prepared soup was not responsible for the pneumatic pump or a poor one for a war?

You cannot sell a blemished apple in the supermarket, but you can sell a tasteless one provided it is shiny, smooth, even, uniform and bright.

I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?

Cacao is not just a food; it is a "superfood".

The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life.

Nothing rekindles my spirits, gives comfort to my heart and mind, more than a visit to Mississippi... and to be regaled as I often have been, with a platter of fried chicken, field peas, collard greens, fresh corn on the cob, sliced tomatoes with French dressing... and to top it all off with a wedge of freshly baked pecan pie.

Brandy and water spoils two good things.

Never trust the food in a restaurant on top of the tallest building in town that spends a lot of time folding napkins.

Half the cookbooks tell you how to cook the food and the other half tell you how to avoid eating it.