Food Quotes - Page 65

I once went out with this wild girl. She made French toast and got her tongue caught in the toaster.

The first time I ate organic whole-grain bread I swear it tasted like roofing material.

Everyone would be healthier if they didn't eat junk food.

There's a lot more future in hamburgers than in baseball.

And dieting, I discovered, was another form of disordered eating, just as anorexia and bulimia similarly disrupt the natural order of eating. "Ordered" eating is the practice of eating when you are hungry and ceasing to eat when your brain sends the signal that your stomach is full. ... All people who live their lives on a diet are suffering. If you can accept your natural body weight and not force it to beneath your body's natural, healthy weight, then you can live your life free of dieting, of restriction, of feeling guilty every time you eat a slice of your kid's birthday cake.

When I develop my recipes I always look for ways to create what I call the Big Taste. While I enjoy eating simple grilled foods, what interests me when I cook are dishes with a taste that is fully dimensional.

...cassoulet, like life itself, is not so simple as it seems.

I don't eat fast food any more, not since I got cancer.

Some hours after eating this dish [lièvre à la royale, which contains 20 cloves of garlic and twice that quantity of shallots], there is a peculiar sensation of liberation in the head. and it is sensation of smell.

Skiing consists of wearing $3,000 worth of clothes and equipment and driving 200 miles in the snow in order to stand around at a bar and drink.

It is a very poor consolation to be told that the man who has given one a bad dinner, or poor wine, is irreproachable in private life. Even the cardinal virtues cannot atone for half-cold entrees.

The [Five Second Rule] has many variations, including The Three Second Rule, The Seven Second Rule, and the extremely handy and versatile The However Long It Takes Me to Pick Up This Food Rule.

Only when a chef changed the way you saw the world, through cooking, did food truly become art, and that was rare indeed.

My work has also motivated me to put a lot of time into seeking out good food and to spend more money on it.

At home I serve the kind of food I know the story behind.

Then from far away across the world he smelled good things to eat, so he gave up being king of the wild things.

Children, we cannot control our mind without controlling our desire for taste. The health aspect, not the taste, should be the prime criteria in choosing the food. We cannot relish the blossoming of the heart without foregoing the taste of the tongue.

Having examined three thousand haiku poems - two persimmons.

If pale beans bubble for you in a red earthenware pot, you can often decline the dinners of sumptuous hosts.

A true gourmet - a judge - has the wisdom to know when to stop eating.

Whenever I was called a gourmet, I suspected I was being accused of something at least slightly unpleasant. But that was before I heard the term "foodie." I am still not sure that a gourmet is a good thing to be, but it must be better than a foodie.

In 'The Republic' he [Plato] states that the enjoyment of food is not a true pleasure because the purpose of eating is to relieve pain - hunger.

Do not be afraid to talk about food. Food which is worth eating is worth discussing. And there is the occult power of words which somehow will develop its qualities.

If you don't watch your figure, you'll have more figure to watch.

I have known many meat eaters to be far more nonviolent than vegetarians.