Food Quotes - Page 8

If we're not willing to settle for junk living, we certainly shouldn't settle for junk food.

Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something.

One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.

Physically he was the connoisseur's connoisseur. He was a giant panda, Santa Claus and the Jolly Green Giant rolled into one. On him, a lean and slender physique would have looked like very bad casting.

In the next ten years, one of the things you're bound to hear is that animal protein is one of the most toxic nutrients of all that can be considered. Quite simply, the more you substitute plant foods for animal foods, the healthier you are likely to be.

It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.

You may feel that you have eaten too much...But this pastry is like feathers - it is like snow. It is in fact good for you, a digestive!

The most important thing to remember about food labels is that you should avoid foods that have labels.

When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.

When you don't know what you're doing, it's best to do it quickly.

An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

Remember that a very good sardine is always preferable to a not that good lobster.

As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.

I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.

I got food poisoning today. I don't know when I'll use it.

Waffles are like pancakes with syrup traps

I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine; every man for himself, and God for us all.

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

If you can eat with mates or friends or family, I mean, it's such a brilliant thing isn't it? If you feel really rubbish and you have a nice bit of food it makes you feel good, you know?

This recipe is certainly silly. It says to separate two eggs, but it doesn't say how far to separate them.

If you don't love life you can't enjoy an oyster; there is a shock of freshness to it and intimations of the ages of man, some piercing intuition of the sea and all its weeds and breezes. [They] shiver you for a split second.

FOOD is the most widely abused anti-anxiety drug in America, and EXERCISE is the most potent yet underutilized antidepressant.

I was raised almost entirely on turnips and potatoes, but I think that the turnips had more to do with the effect than the potatoes.

She ate so many clams that her stomach rose and fell with the tide.

I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.