Food Quotes - Page 57

Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding.

Oats. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

My soul is dark with stormy riot: directly traced over to diet.

I'll dispose of my teeth as I see fit, and after they've gone, I'll get along. I started off living on gruel, and by God, I can always go back to it again.

The French fried potato has become an inescapable horror in almost every public eating place in the country. 'French fries', say the menus, but they are not French fries any longer. They are a furry-textured substance with the taste of plastic wood.

Goat cheese... produced a bizarre eating era when sensible people insisted that this miserable cheese produced by these miserable creatures reared on miserable hardscrabble earth was actually superior to the magnificent creamy cheeses of the noblest dairy animals bred in the richest green valleys of the earth.

The American does not drink at meals as a sensible man should. Indeed, he has no meals. He stuffs for ten minutes thrice a day.

What's sad about not eating is the experience, whether at a family reunion or at midnight by yourself in a greasy spoon under the L tracks. The loss of dining, not the loss of food.

The colors. The city. Nothing. But they’ve got some good food, though. Other than the food, nothing.

Remember the days when you let your child have some chocolate if he finished his cereal? Now, chocolate is one of the cereals.

And every day when I've been good, I get an orange after food.

A soup so thick you could shake its hand and stroll with it before dinner.

Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.

Abstain from beans. There be sundry interpretations of this symbol. But Plutarch and Cicero think beans to be forbidden of Pythagoras, because they be windy and do engender impure humours and for that cause provoke bodily lust.

If you're given champagne at lunch, there's a catch somewhere.

I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.

Huge lemons, cut in slices, would sink like setting suns into the dusky sea, softly illuminating it with their radiating membranes, and its clear, smooth surface aquiver from the rising bitter essence.

Hash browns are my favorite breakfast food.

Wine is a splendid thing in and of itself, but it is nonetheless proper to examine the high nutritional and hygienic values of wine from a scientific point of view. We are convinced that scientists will thus perform a service to mankind, since at the same time they will help determine the measure beyond which its use is a misuse for all creation.

The same intelligence is required to marshal an army in battle and to order a good dinner. The first must be as formidable as possible, the second as pleasant as possible, to the participants.

Molded salads are best served in situations where they have little or no competition ... Like television, gelatin is too often a vehicle for limp leftovers that couldn't make it anywhere else.

There will never cease to be ferment in the world unless people are sure of their food.

Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is wiser not to stir them.

The true cook is the perfect blend, the only perfect blend, of artist and philosopher. He knows his worth: he holds in his palm the happiness of mankind, the welfare of generations yet unborn.