Quotes about food
food men oysters
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster. Jonathan Swift
food sea swim
They say fish should swim thrice * * * first it should swim in the sea (do you mind me?) then it should swim in butter, and at last, sirrah, it should swim in good claret.
food snacks skinny
I will never be a skinny waif as I am physically unable to say "no" to free booze and snacks. Oh well. Katie Aselton
food ice-cream green
I won't eat anything green. Kurt Cobain
food feelings okay
It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings.
food humor men
For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man's hunger. Khalil Gibran
food kissing cooking
This is every cook's opinion - no savory dish without an onion, but lest your kissing should be spoiled your onions must be fully boiled.
food kissing bread
Bachelor's fare: bread and cheese, and kisses.
food bread eating
Bread is the staff of life.
food kitchen
Kitchen Physic is the best Physic.
food safety responsible
Not responding is a response - we are equally responsible for what we don't do. Jonathan Safran Foer
food artist perfection
Actually, the true gourmet, like the true artist, is one of the unhappiest creatures existent. His trouble comes from so seldom finding what he constantly seeks: perfection. Ludwig Bemelmans
food character order
America is a land of healthy appetites. It is not in the American character to live in order to eat. Rather, the reverse is true. Many try, but just as Americans don't make good gigolos, nether do they make good gourmets.
food eating-good home-cooking
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. Luciano Pavarotti
food men apples
All human history attests That happiness for man, - the hungry sinner! - Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner. ~Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto XIII, stanza 99 Lord Byron
food apples dinner
Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
food people hunger
That famish'd people must be slowly nurst, and fed by spoonfuls, else they always burst.
food drinking lobster
A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.
food tired hands
On the other hand, a flaccid, moping, debauched mollusc, tired from too much love and loose-nerved from general world conditions, can be a shameful thing served raw upon the shell. M. F. K. Fisher
food cooking ignorant
a potato is a poor thing, poorly treated. More often than not it is cooked in so unthinking and ignorant a manner as to make one feel that it has never before been encountered in the kitchen ...
food oysters soup
This is not that, and that is certainly not this, and at the same time an oyster stew is not stewed, and although they are made of the same things and even cooked almost the same way, an oyster soup should never be called a stew, nor stew soup.
food wine drunk
There's a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.
food memorable dinner
Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters.
food yoga exercise
The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight... [Breadmaking is] one of those almost hypnotic businesses, like a dance from some ancient ceremony. It leaves you filled with one of the world's sweetest smells... there is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel. that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread.
food thinking tables
In general, I think, human beings are happiest at table when they are very young, very much in love or very alone.
food eggs broken
Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg until it is broken.
food believe men
It is a curious fact that no man likes to call himself a glutton, and yet each of us has in him a trace of gluttony, potential or actual. I cannot believe that there exists a single coherent human being who will not confess, at least to himself, that once or twice he has stuffed himself to bursting point on anything from quail financiere to flapjacks, for no other reason than the beastlike satisfaction of his belly.
food snow cooking
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!
food writing hunger
When I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and it is all one.
food thinking hands
I am more modest now, but I still think that one of the pleasantest of all emotions is to know that I, I with my brain and my hands, have nourished my beloved few, that I have concocted a stew or a story, a rarity or a plain dish, to sustain them truly against the hungers of the world.
food cutting men
All men are hungry. They always have been. They must eat, and when they deny themselves the pleasures of carrying out that need, they are cutting off part of their possible fullness, their natural realization of life, whether they are rich or poor.
food cooking firsts
First we eat, then we do everything else.
food writing reality
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.