Food Quotes - Page 50

Banquet: a plate of cold, hairy chicken and artificially coloured green peas completely surrounded by dreary speeches and appeals for donations.

Hunger never saw bad bread.

Hold your Council before Dinner; the full Belly hates Thinking as well as Acting.

A full Belly is the Mother of all Evil.

The belly is the giver of genius.

Don't take a butcher's advice on how to cook meat. If he knew, he'd be a chef.

Custard: A detestable substance produced by a malevolent conspiracy of the hen, the cow, and the cook.

To the goggling unbeliever Texans say, as people always say about their mangier dishes, 'But it's just like chicken, only tenderer.' Rattlesnake is, in fact, just like chicken - only tougher.

Champagne had the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife.

I like neither new clothes nor new kinds of food.

Forcing people to eat together is an effective way to promote tolerance.

Don't go and cook Indian food if you never cooked Indian food, you know?

If thou rise with an Appetite, thou art sure never to sit down without one.

The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all.

My mother didn't really cook. But she did make key lime pie, until the day the top of the evaporated milk container accidentally ended up in the pie and she decided cooking took too much concentration.

All the vitamins needed seem to be found in plebian dishes.

First, a gorgeous breakfast: just everything you can imagine from flapjacks and fried squirrel to hominy grits and honey in the comb...we're so impatient to get at the presents we can't eat a mouthful.

Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.

The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato. The best part is underground.

On a hot day in Virginia, I know nothing more comforting than a fine spiced pickle, brought up trout-like from the sparkling depths of the aromatic jar below the stairs of Aunt Sally's cellar.

By making this wine known to the public, I have rendered my country as great a service as if I had enabled it to pay back the national debt.

I have lived temperately....I double the doctor's recommendation of a glass and a half wine each day and even treble it with a friend.

The longer I live, the more I am convinced that the apothecary is of more importance than Seneca; and that half the unhappiness in the world proceeds from little stoppages; from a duct choked up, from food pressing in the wrong place, from a vexed duodenum, or an agitated pylorus.

There's no doctor like meat and drink.

Eat as much as you like-just don't swallow it.