Food Quotes - Page 9

Doubtless God Could Have Made A Better Berry, But Doubtless God Never Did

Over the years since I left home, I have kept thinking about the people I grew up with and about our way of life. I realize how much the bond that held us had to do with food.

But I don't want nutrition. I want food!

I liked the energy of cooking, the action, the camaraderie. I often compare the kitchen to sports and compare the chef to a coach. There are a lot of similarities to it.

Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.

Food is not just fuel. Food is about family, food is about community, food is about identity. And we nourish all those things when we eat well.

In department stores, so much kitchen equipment is bought indiscriminately by people who just come in for men's underwear.

The pleasures of the table belong to all times and ages, to every country and every day; they go hand in hand with all our other pleasures, outlast them, and remain to console us for their loss.

The most dangerous food is wedding cake.

The secret of good cooking is, first, having a love of it… If you’re convinced that cooking is drudgery, you’re never going to be good at it, and you might as well warm up something frozen.

I get way too much happiness from good food.

Know that you have complete control over what you put in your mouth. No one ever ate anything by accident.

Beware the hobby that eats.

A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.

All food starting with p is comfort food: pasta, potato chips, pretzels, peanut butter, pastrami, Pizza, pastry.

The two things you can't fake are good food and good music

Roast Beef, Medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy. Seated at Life's Dining Table, with the menu of Morals before you, your eye wanders a bit over the entrees, the hors d'oeuvres, and the things a la though you know that Roast Beef, Medium, is safe and sane, and sure.

Hell, when I was growing up, I could make a meal out of a package of Top Ramen and a bottle of Windex.

Beer has long been the prime lubricant in our social intercourse and the sacred throat-anointing fluid that accompanies the ritual of mateship. To sink a few cold ones with the blokes is both an escape and a confirmation of belonging.

Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages.

Talking of Pleasure, this moment I was writing with one hand, and with the other holding to my Mouth a Nectarine - how good how fine. It went down all pulpy, slushy, oozy, all its delicious embonpoint melted down my throat like a large, beatified Strawberry.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

OYSTER, n. A slimy, gobby shellfish which civilization gives men the hardihood to eat without removing its entrails! The shells are sometimes given to the poor.

TEETOTALER, n. One who abstains from strong drink, sometimes totally, sometimes tolerably totally.

The turnip is a capricious vegetable, which seems reluctant to show itself at its best.