Food Quotes - Page 42

Onions can make even Heirs and Widows weep.

Hunger is the best pickle.

I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.

Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.

When you find a waiter who is a waiter and not an actor, writer, musician or poet, you've found a jewel.

Let things taste of what they are.

Good food depends almost entirely on good ingredients.

In case my life should end with the cannibals, I hope they will write on my tombstone, 'We have eaten Dr. Schweitzer. He was good to the end.'

Fat is a barrier, a bellicose statement to others that, to some, justifies hostility in kind. The world says to the fat person, "Your fatness is an affront to me, so we have the right to treat you as offensively as you appear." Fat is not merely viewed as another type of tissue, but as a diagnostic sign, a personal statement, and a measure of personality. Too little fat and we see you as being antisocial, fearful and sexless. Too much fat and we see you as slothful, stupid, and sexually hung up.

In the light of what Proust wrote with so mild a stimulus, it is the world's loss that he did not have a heartier appetite. On a dozen Gardiner's Island oysters, a bowl of clam chowder, a peck of steamers, some bay scallops, three sauteed soft-shelled crabs, a few ears of fresh picked corn, a thin swordfish steak of generous area, a pair of lobsters, and a Long Island Duck, he might have written a masterpiece.

Good food is healthy food. Food is supposed to sustain you so you can live better, not so you can eat more. Some people eat to live, and some people live to eat.

I think I could eat one of Bellamy's veal pies.

Eating with the fullest pleasure - pleasure, that is, that does not depend on ignorance - is perhaps the profoundest enactment of our connection with the world. In this pleasure we experience our dependence and our gratitude, for we are living in a mystery, from creatures we did not make and powers we cannot comprehend.

A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere.

Food can become such a point of anxiety - not because it's food, but just because you have anxiety. That's how eating disorders develop.

I’d discovered, after a lot of extreme apprehension about what spoons to use, that if you do something incorrect at table with a certain arrogance, as if you knew perfectly well you were doing it properly, you can get away with it and nobody will think you are bad-mannered or poorly brought up. They will think you are original and very witty.

He is rich enough who does not want bread.

A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.

I never went to the gym before in my life. But, at 32, I notice that my body responds negatively to bad food, so I must make double the effort.

The Cheesecake Factory is a great business model, but if you take your wife there for your 25th wedding anniversary, you might not reach your 26th.

The spirit cannot endure the body when overfed, but, if underfed, the body cannot endure the spirit.

Ham's substantial, ham is fat. Ham is firm and sound. Ham's what God was getting at When He made pigs so round.

The fricassee with dumplings is made by a Mrs. Miller whose husband has left her four times on account of her disposition and returned four times on account of her cooking.

Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.