Food Quotes - Page 7

Please be a traveler, not a tourist. Try new things, meet new people, and look beyond what's right in front of you. Those are the keys to understanding this amazing world we live in.

Good food is a right, not a privilege. It brings children into a positive relationship with their health, community and environment.

Sometimes...we don't want to feel like a postmodern, postfeminist, overstretched woman but, rather, a domestic goddess, trailing nutmeggy fumes of baking pie in our languorous wake.

The first printed mention of bagels... is to be found in the Community Regulations of Kracow, Poland, for the year 1610 which stated that bagels would be given as a gift to any woman in childbirth.

One man's Poison Ivy is another Fellow's Spinach.

To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.

When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.

I don't stop eating when I'm full. The meal isn't over when I'm full. It's over when I hate myself.

In 1968, I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry, and unhappy like we do.

Food history is as important as a baroque church. Governments should recognize cultural heritage and protect traditional foods. A cheese is as worthy of preserving as a sixteenth-century building.

If you are what you eat then feed me dope.

Unless we change our food choices, nothing else matters. Because it is meat that is destroying most of our forests. It is meat that pollutes the waters. It is meat that is creating disease which leads to all our money being diverted to hospitals. So, it's the first choice for anybody who wants to save the Earth.

It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others. So it happens that when I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and the hunger for it… and then the warmth and richness and fine reality of hunger satisfied… and it is all one.

Hell is other people at breakfast.

An apple is an excellent thing -- until you have tried a peach.

Of course we do not live in order to eat, but it is not really true to say that we eat in order to live; we eat because we are hungry. Desire has no further intentions behind it... it is a good will.

Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake.

He receives comfort like cold porridge.

Man shall not live by bread alone.

It is well known among physicians that the best of the nourishing foods is the one that the Moslem religion forbids, i.e., Wine. It contains much good and light nourishment. It is rapidly digested and helps to digest other foods.

What I've enjoyed most, though, is meeting people who have a real interest in food and sharing ideas with them. Good food is a global thing and I find that there is always something new and amazing to learn - I love it!

Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it.

On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners.

The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one.

Good food is the basis of true happiness