Food Quotes - Page 43

I was told to hand over my disposable lighter, to prevent, I suppose, any threat of "Do what I say or I'll light this Marlboro and you'll all die - in thirty years due to inhalation of secondhand smoke."

Zen martini: A martini with no vermouth at all. And no gin, either.

Bring me an order of escargots, but hold the slugs.

A dressing is not a compote A dressing is not a custard It consists of pepper and salt, Vinegar, oil and mustard.

Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!

Any part of the piggy Is quite all right with me Ham from Westphalia, ham from Parma Ham as lean as the Dalai Lama Ham from Virginia, ham from York, Trotters Sausages, hot roast pork. Crackling crisp for my teeth to grind on Bacon with or without the rind on Though humanitarian I'm not a vegetarian. I'm neither crank nor prude nor prig And though it may sound infra dig Any part of the darling pig Is perfectly fine with me.

It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.

The woman just ahead of you at the supermarket checkout has all the delectable groceries you didn't even know they carried.

The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure; neither the greatest captains nor the greatest philosophers have disdained the use or science of eating well.

Don't eat anything incapable of rotting.

Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.

If your slave commits a fault, do not smash his teeth with your fists; give him some of the (hard) biscuit which famous Rhodes has sent you.

Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

Judging foods without regard to price is a rich mans game, and yet poor people can be gourmets able to discern a good potato from a bad one.

Know how to garnish food so that it is more appealing to the eye and even more flavorful than before.

It is easier to change a man's religion than to change his diet.

A Paradox, the doughnut hole. Empty space, once, but now they've learned to market even that. A minus quantity; nothing, rendered edible. I wondered if they might be used-metaphorically, of course-to demonstrate the existence of God. Does naming a sphere of nothingness transmute it into being?

Hunger is the best sauce.

This is not that, and that is certainly not this, and at the same time an oyster stew is not stewed, and although they are made of the same things and even cooked almost the same way, an oyster soup should never be called a stew, nor stew soup.

gastronomy is and always has been connected with its sister art of love.

To be a gourmet you must start early, as you must begin riding early to be a good horseman. You must live in France, your father must have been a gourmet. Nothing in life must interest you but your stomach.

What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others

Fast Food Nation was boring and aimed at yuppies, and yuppies don't eat fast food.

The army from Asia introduced a foreign luxury to Rome; it was then the meals began to require more dishes and more expenditure . . . the cook, who had up to that time been employed as a slave of low price, become dear: what had been nothing but a metier was elevated to an art.

To feel safe and warm on a cold wet night, all you really need is soup.