Quotes about food
food sauce hunger
Hunger is the best sauce. Marcus Tullius Cicero
food mind body
Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body. Marcus Tullius Cicero
food men dinner
When the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface Mark Twain
food angel knows
When one has tasted watermelon he knows what the angels eat. Mark Twain
food desire needs
A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs. Mark Twain
food new-orleans criminals
New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin. Mark Twain
food taken winter
I know the look of an apple that is roasting and sizzling on the hearth on a winter's evening, and I know the comfort that comes of eating it hot, along with some sugar and a drench of cream... I know how the nuts taken in conjunction with winter apples, cider, and doughnuts, make old people's tales and old jokes sound fresh and crisp and enchanting. Mark Twain
food eggs fabulous
Nothing helps scenery like bacon and eggs. Mark Twain
food people gone
There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry. Mark Twain
food oysters sick
I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead. Oscar Wilde
food oil cooking
To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist - the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one's vinegar. Oscar Wilde
food people cooking
I can't stand people that do not take food seriously. Oscar Wilde
food eating-good cooking
You don't need a silver fork to eat good food. Paul Prudhomme
food loss support
If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating. Leigh Hunt
food imported last time
For the first time last year, the U.S. actually imported more food than it exported.
food illness appetite
Illness isn't the only thing that spoils the appetite. Ivan Turgenev
food people cooking
Dried peas and beans, being rather on the dull side, much like dull people respond readily to the right contacts. Irma S. Rombauer
food eggs imagination
Nothing stimulates the practiced cook's imagination like an egg. Irma S. Rombauer
food deserving-it feminist
For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable. Gloria Steinem
food future near period worried
All of us are very, very worried about the very near future ... We are going into a period where we don't think there's going to be enough food here in this country.
food grandmother cooking
Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. Michael Pollan
food health grandmother
Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. Don't eat anything with more than five ingredients, or ingredients you can't pronounce. Michael Pollan
food erosion half
In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn. Michael Pollan
food agriculture division
Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before. Michael Pollan
food home stories
At home I serve the kind of food I know the story behind. Michael Pollan
food animal community
The shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of fueling the body to a ritual of family and community, from the mere animal biology to an act of culture. Michael Pollan
food eating-well dieting
Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. Michael Pollan
food phones two
While it is true that many people simply can't afford to pay more for food, either in money or time or both, many more of us can. After all, just in the last decade or two we've somehow found the time in the day to spend several hours on the internet and the money in the budget not only to pay for broadband service, but to cover a second phone bill and a new monthly bill for television, formerly free. For the majority of Americans, spending more for better food is less a matter of ability than priority. p.187 Michael Pollan
food healthy-eating eating
You are what what you eat eats. Michael Pollan
food hands healthy-eating
Shake the hand that feeds you. Michael Pollan
food garden might
The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway. Michael Pollan
food men drink
A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man. Sinclair Lewis
food goal
What you eat is not the goal. What you are is the goal. Rajneesh