Food Quotes - Page 71

The British hamburger thus symbolised, with savage neatness, the country's failure to provide its ordinary people with food which did anything more for them than sustain life.

He who feasts every day, feasts no day.

The availability of fish is a food security issue. We need to stop our first world fleets taking fish from the mouths of the poor. The EU fleet goes all up and down the coast of Africa. The same thing goes on in the Pacific.

I'd like to have any sort of Mexican or Italian food any time of the day!

I'm completely changing my diet. My nutritionist recommends I must now stop eating food I have already eliminated.

Mrs. Schneiderman's theory of life was that earth held no sorrow that food could not heal.

Preserve and treat food as you would your body, remembering that in time food will be your body.

Food culture in the United States has long been cast as the property of a privileged class. It is nothing of the kind. Culture is the property of a species.

I love fruit, when it is expensive.

I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.

I'm really happy to see the explosion of interest in Korean food, and this hybrid Korean-American food.

Eating takes a special talent. Some people are much better at it than others. In that way, it is like sex, and as with sex, it's more fun with someone who really likes it. I can't imagine having a lasting friendship with anyone who is not interested in food.

I'm a health-food junkie, so all of my food is a splurge, money-wise!

The secret of being a great actor is a love of food.

Moving to the US was quite a transition for me, to say the least! There were, and still are so many new things to get used to: the language, food, culture, even the style of basketball is different here!

Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.

The confection made of Cacao called Chocolate or Chocoletto which may be had in diverse places in London, at reasonable rates, is of wonderful efficacy for the procreation of children: for it not only vehemently incites to Venus, but causes conception in women . . . and besides that it preserves health, for it makes such as take it often to become fat and corpulent, fair and amiable.

Some guy invented Vitamin A out of a carrot. I'll bet he can't invent a good meal out of one.

Now we have food networks and everything. CNN was the beginning of all of that.

Nature was indeed at her artistic best when she created the nutmeg, a delight to the eye in all its avatars, from the completely garbed to nudity.

Sweetly and subtly perfumed...so soft it is best eaten with a spoon, a tenderness more appealing to gourmets than to those who have to pick, ship, handle and store it in constant fear of ruinous spoilage.

Sometimes the table was graced with immense apple-pies, or saucers full of preserved peaches and pears; but it was always sure to boast an enormous dish of balls of sweetened dough, fried in hog's fat, and called doughnuts, or olykoeks - a delicious kind of cake, at present scarce known in this city, except in genuine Dutch families.

No matter what kind of diet you are on, you can usually eat as much as you want of anything you don't like.

Mellow nuts have the hardest rind.

The real, native South Seas food is lousy. You can't eat it.