Food Quotes - Page 51

Where do you go to get anorexia?

Food is the most primitive form of comfort.

A great step toward independence is a good-humoured stomach.

Hunger is never delicate.

No matter how thin you slice it it's still baloney.

News is like food: it is the cooking and serving that makes it acceptable, not the material itself.

All millionaires love a baked apple.

A recipe is not meant to be followed exactly - it is a canvas on which you can embroider.

Look at airport security now. What started out as definite racial profiling is now where the computer picks a name. That's why you get a seven-month-old getting a pat down. [Imitates a security officer.] "Check the diapers. They're full."

I understand the big food companies are developing a tearless onion. I think they can do it - after all, they've already given us tasteless bread.

Give us this day our daily taste. Restore to us soups that spoons will not sink in and sauces which are never the same twice. Raise up among us stews with more gravy than we have bread to blot it with... Give us pasta with a hundred fillings.

Cheese. The adult form of milk.

...when food is shared in a fair way, with solidarity, when no one is deprived, every community can meet the needs of the poorest. Human ecology and environmental ecology walk together.

Being sober for so many years is getting interesting.

There was something immensely comforting, I found, about a crumpet - so comforting that I've never forgotten about them and have even learned to make them myself against those times when I have no other source of supply.

Make food a very incidental part of your life by filling your life so full of meaningful things that you'll hardly have time to think about food.

There is such a thing as food and such a thing as poison. But the damage done by those who pass off poison as food is far less than that done by those who generation after generation convince people that food is poison.

Home-made bread rubbed with garlic and sprinkled with olive oil, shared-with a flask of wine-between working people, can be more convivial than any feast.

The best poet is the man who delivers our daily bread: the local baker.

Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is.

Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.

I should have remembered that when one is going to lead an entirely new life, one requires regular and wholesome meals.

I have very high standards for every part of life - my work, my relationships, food, love. I can't just pretend.

What I love about cooking is that after a hard day, there is something comforting about the fact that if you melt butter and add flour and then hot stock, it will get thick! It's a sure thing! It's a sure thing in a world where nothing is sure; it has a mathematical certainty in a world where those of us who long for some kind of certainty are forced to settle for crossword puzzles.

How about slipping out of those wet things and into a dry Martini?