Quotes about food
food long serious
I have found it to be the most serious objection to coarse labors long continued, that they compelled me to eat and drink coarsely also. Henry David Thoreau
food exercise men
There is not one kind of food for all men. You must and you will feed those faculties which you exercise. The laborer whose body is weary does not require the same food with the scholar whose brain is weary.
food book giving
It has always pleased me to read while eating if I have no companion; it gives me the society I lack. I devour alternately a page and a mouthful; it is as though my book were dining with me. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
food mean microwaves
It is ludicrous to read the microwave direction on the boxes of food you buy, as each one will have a disclaimer: THIS WILL VARY WITH YOUR MICROWAVE. Loosely translated, this means, You're on your own, Bernice. Erma Bombeck
food dresses dieting
Those magazine dieting stories always have the testimonial of a woman who wore a dress that could slipcover New Jersey in one photo and thirty days later looked like a well-dressed thermometer.
food agriculture example
There are a lot of products still to be discovered in the world and experimentation, for example with seafood and fish. There are thousands of products that we're not eating right now that maybe will be cultivated in a good agriculture situation, a sustainable, ecological way. Maybe there will be textures or flavors we hadn't even thought of. In the Amazon there are 400 fruits that are not cultivated right now. They're just incredible fruits. Textures, tastes that we don't know right now. Ferran Adria
food sardines lobster
Remember that a very good sardine is always preferable to a not that good lobster.
food wife tree
My wife is on a new diet. Coconuts and bananas. She hasn't lost weight, but can she climb a tree. Henny Youngman
food water soup
It is thought that potato water is unhealthy; and therefore do not boil potatoes in soup, but boil elsewhere, and add them when nearly cooked. Catharine Beecher
food berries made
Doubtless God Could Have Made A Better Berry, But Doubtless God Never Did Izaak Walton
food vegetarianism cooking
I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens. Isaac Bashevis Singer
food cost illness
To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness, indeed. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
food long faces
Avoidance is a great tool to get away from food in my face all day long. Jennifer Hudson
food people breakfast
Hell is other people at breakfast. Jean-Paul Sartre
food dust community
Bacon bits are like the fairy dust of the food community. Jim Gaffigan
food italian pigs
I do love Italian food. Any kind of pasta or pizza. My new pig out food is Indian food. I eat Indian food like three times a week. It's so good. Jennifer Love Hewitt
food book machines
The diet book is one of those fool-and-money separation devices that seems, like roulette or slot machines, never to lose its power. Christopher Hitchens
food simple leaving
Some breakfast food manufacturer hit upon the simple notion of emptying out the leavings of carthorse nose bags, adding a few other things like unconsumed portions of chicken layer's mash, and the sweepings of racing stables, packing the mixture in little bags and selling them in health food shops. Frank Muir
food eating appetite
The appetite grows with eating. Francois Rabelais
food forget-the-past easy
It's easy for Americans to forget that the food they eat doesn't magically appear on a supermarket shelf. Christopher Dodd
food progress bread
Acorns were good until bread was found. Francis Bacon
food people warning
While it is undeniably true that people love a surprise, it is equally true that they are seldom pleased to suddenly and without warning happen upon a series of prunes in what they took to be a normal loin of pork. Fran Lebowitz
food wine law
Cheese that is required by law to append the word food to its title does not go well with red wine or fruit.
food cake white
White grapes are very attractive but when it comes to dessert people generally like cake with icing.
food japan average
Japanese food is very pretty and undoubtedly a suitable cuisine in Japan, which is largely populated by people of below average size. Hostesses hell-bent on serving such food to occidentals would be well advised to supplement it with something more substantial and to keep in mind that almost everybody likes french fries.
food dinner-guests hot
Cold soup is a very tricky thing and it is a rare hostess who can carry it off. More often than not the dinner guest is left with the impression that had he only come a little earlier he could have gotten it while it was still hot.
food apples dinner
Civilised adults do not take apple juice with dinner.
food cutting vegetables
Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.
food mind dinner
Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable. George Washington Carver
food kissing cooking
Kissing don't last: cookery do! George Meredith
food people cooking
On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners. George Mikes
food feet libertarian
In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but feed us. Fyodor Dostoevsky
food bread baking-bread
There is not a thing that is more positive than bread.