Food Quotes - Page 48

If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.

There is nothing like soup. It is by nature eccentric: no two are ever alike, unless of course you get your soup in a can.

You can't just eat good food. You've got to talk about it too.

Being American is to eat a lot of beef steak, and boy, we've got a lot more beef steak than any other country, and that's why you ought to be glad you're an American. And people have started looking at these big hunks of bloody meat on their plates, you know, and wondering what on earth they think they're doing.

I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pate than any other.

In spite of food fads, fitness programs, and health concerns, we must never lose sight of a beautifully conceived meal.

I’m awfully sorry for people who are taken in by all of today’s dietary mumbo jumbo. They are not getting any enjoyment out of their food.

A philosopher is a person who doesn't care which side his bread is buttered on; he knows he eats both sides anyway.

We owe much to the fruitful meditation of our sages, but a sane view of life is, after all, elaborated mainly in the kitchen.

Bread is the staff of life.

It is not necessary to advertise food to hungry people, fuel to cold people, or houses to the homeless.

Canned food is a perversion,' Ignatius said. 'I suspect that it is ultimately very damaging to the soul.

It is sunlight in modified form which turns all the windmills and water wheels and the machinery which they drive. It is the energy derived from coal and petroleum (fossil sunlight) which propels our steam and gas engines, our locomotives and automobiles. ... Food is simply sunlight in cold storage.

The shorter the chain between raw food and fork, the fresher it is and the more transparent the system is.

We drink [to] one another's health and spoil our own.

I do love Italian food. Any kind of pasta or pizza. My new pig out food is Indian food. I eat Indian food like three times a week. It's so good.

Turkey is undoubtedly one of the best gifts that the New World has made to the Old.

A man who was fond of wine was offered some grapes at dessert after dinner. "Much obliged," said he, pushing the plate aside, "I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills."

I'm fond of anything that comes from the sea, and that includes sailors.

Reward is a happy customer - and an empty plate.

Each sort of cheese reveals a pasture of a different green, under a different sky.

Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.

Hell is probably quite similar to most Paris bistros ... a bit overheated, somewhat too crowded, and a little too noisy for my tastes. The waiters will surely treat you rudely and the cashiers will always add a few extra francs to your bill but ... and this is the important part ... the food will be marvelous.

You do not sew with a fork and I see no reason why you should eat with knitting needles.

As long as you represent me as praising alcohol I shall not complain. It is, I believe, the greatest of human inventions, and by far - much greater than Hell, the radio or the bichloride tablet.