Food Quotes - Page 49

I never eat sushi. I have trouble eating things that are merely unconscious.

I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.

I do not want to make my stomach a graveyard of dead animals.

When the waitress puts the dinner on the table, the old men look at the dinner. The young men look at the waitress.

Aioli epitomizes the heat, the power, and the joy of the Provencal sun, but it has another virtue -- it drives away flies.

Cold soup is a very tricky thing and it is a rare hostess who can carry it off. More often than not the dinner guest is left with the impression that had he only come a little earlier he could have gotten it while it was still hot.

Most vegetarians I ever see looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals.

There are a lot of products still to be discovered in the world and experimentation, for example with seafood and fish. There are thousands of products that we're not eating right now that maybe will be cultivated in a good agriculture situation, a sustainable, ecological way. Maybe there will be textures or flavors we hadn't even thought of. In the Amazon there are 400 fruits that are not cultivated right now. They're just incredible fruits. Textures, tastes that we don't know right now.

Well, it is a humiliating reflection, that the straightest road to a man's heart is through his palate.

Anytime there is Mexican food around, you can bet I'll be eating it.

Those magazine dieting stories always have the testimonial of a woman who wore a dress that could slipcover New Jersey in one photo and thirty days later looked like a well-dressed thermometer.

My philosophy from day one is that I can sleep better at night if I can improve an individual's knowledge about food and wine, and do it on a daily basis.

Cocktails are society's most enduring invention!

There was a Young Lady of Poole, Whose soup was excessively cool; So she put it to boil, by the aid of some oil, That ingenious Young Lady of Poole.

The noise from good toast should reverberate in the head like the thunder of July.

For as long as I can remember, my father saved. He saves money, he saves disfigured sticks that resemble disfigured celebrities, and most of all, he saves food. Cherry tomatoes, sausage biscuits, the olives plucked from other people's martinis --he hides these things in strange places until they are rotten. And then he eats them.

The mangosteen, queen of the tropical fruit.

The only kind of seafood I trust is the fish stick, a totally featureless fish that doesn't have eyeballs or fins.

It doesn't matter who you are, or what you've done, or think you can do. There's a confrontation with destiny awaiting you. Somewhere, there is a chile you cannot eat.

There is nothing better on a cold wintry day than a properly made pot pie.

Leave the eggs to bathe for 15 minutes in the hot water like a sexy Swedish chick in a natural mineral sauna.

Eat at your own as you would the table of a king.

If I'm making a movie and get hungry, I call time-out and eat some crackers.

As the colonel and I sat swapping stories in the plane, a jet aircraft buzzed past our window. I asked the colonel what type of aircraft it was, and he said, "Don't worry about it, Bob. . . if you can see it, it's obsolete."

We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should.