Food Quotes - Page 46

It is part of the novelist's convention not to mention soup and salmon and ducklings, as if soup and salmon and ducklings were of no importance.

I eat whatever I want, junk food included.

When we lose, I eat. When we win, I eat. I also eat when we're rained out.

Like fast-food chains, child psychiatric inpatient units and the wholesale psychiatric drugging of children, in and out of hospitals, are recent...and remarkably popular products and practices.

We never repent of having eaten too little.

Never commit yourself to a cheese without having first examined it.

A hippo sandwich is easy to make. All you do is simply take one slice of bread, one slice of cake, some mayonnaise, one onion ring, one hippopotamus, one piece of string, a dash of pepper. That ought to do it. And now comes the problem... biting into it!

The first time you see something that you have never seen before, you almost always know right away if you should eat it or run away from it.

It is not 'only' food, I said heatedly. There's meaning hidden underneath each dish.

It was dramatic to watch my grandmother decapitate a turkey with an ax the day before Thanksgiving. Nowadays the expense of hiring grandmothers for the ax work would probably qualify all turkeys so honored with gourmet status.

Sitting down to a meal with an Indian family is different from sitting down to a meal with a British family.

I always wondered why babies spend so much time sucking their thumbs. Then I tasted baby food.

God bless my soul! No apple pie.

The friendly cow, all red and white, I love with all my heart; She gives me cream with all her might, To eat with apple-tart.

Thy breath is like the steame of apple-pyes.

It is precisely because no one needs soup, fish, meat, salad, cheese, and dessert at one meal that we so badly need to sit down to them from time to time. It was largesse that made us all; we were not created to fast forever... Enter here, therefore, as a sovereign remedy for the narrowness of our minds and the stinginess of our souls.

Older women are like aging strudels - the crust may not be so lovely, but the filling has come at last into its own.

The organization cannot trust the individual; the individual must trust the organization.

The price of apparently cheap food is costing nothing less than the Earth!

It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.

...shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle. Indeed of the whole realm of Nature the sea is in many ways the most harmful to the stomach, with its great variety of dishes and tasty fish.

Pepper is small in quantity and great in virtue.

I don't like to say that my kitchen is a religious place, but I would say that if I were a voodoo priestess, I would conduct my rituals there.

I love seafood. I'm not a vegetarian but I'm probably a pescetarian.

He was chugging brown pop from a can Jack had handed him while he stuffed nacho cheese Doritos in his face. I was glad to see he looked lots better, almost completely like himself, which proves Doritos and brown pop really are health foods.