Quotes about food
food home-cooking soul
A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe. Thomas Keller
food wife funny-marriage
There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will. Robert Frost
food loss track
What's sad about not eating is the experience, whether at a family reunion or at midnight by yourself in a greasy spoon under the L tracks. The loss of dining, not the loss of food. Roger Ebert
food wine work-and-life
In Italy, they add work and life on to food and wine. Robin Leach
food anxiety potatoes
I wondered what you'd have on the side with a plate of Deep Fried Anxiety. Pickles? Coleslaw? Potato-strychnine mash? Robin McKinley
food vegetables iron
I eat a variety of foods like vegetables, fruit and beef for protein and iron. Sasha Cohen
food fda want
I like food. I like eating. And I don't want to deprive myself of good food. Sarah Michelle Gellar
food comfort pasta
All food starting with p is comfort food: pasta, potato chips, pretzels, peanut butter, pastrami, Pizza, pastry. Sara Paretsky
food color vegetables
Carob is a brown powder made from the pulverized fruit of a Mediterranean evergreen. Some consider carob an adequate substitute for chocolate because it has some similar nutrients (calcium, phosphorus), and because it can, when combined with vegetable fat and sugar, be made to approximate the color and consistency of chocolate. Of course, the same arguments can as persuasively be made in favor of dirt. Sandra Boynton
food feds ill
It is as bad as bad can be: it is ill-fed, ill-killed, ill-kept, and ill-drest. Samuel Johnson
food drinking wine
Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a dread of the company has repressed. It only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
food men dinner
This was a good dinner enough, to be sure, but it was not a dinner to ask a man to.
food men thinking
A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
food men wife
A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
food people mind
Some people have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind my belly very studiously, and very carefully; for I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else.
food cucumbers vinegar
Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.
food lovely may
Older women are like aging strudels - the crust may not be so lovely, but the filling has come at last into its own. Robert Farrar Capon
food worry cooking
I like a cook who smiles out loud when he tastes his own work. Let God worry about your modesty; I want to see your enthusiasm.
food want thinness
We know that ever woman wants to be thin. Our images of womanhood are almost synonymous with thinness. Susie Orbach
food two squares
Any two meals at a boarding-house are together less than two square meals. Stephen Leacock
food anorexia
Where do you go to get anorexia? Shelley Winters
food meatballs spaghetti
I love spaghetti and meatballs... I eat a lot. Susan Lucci
food fall taken
Another sad comestive truth is that the best foods are the products of infinite and wearying trouble. The trouble need not be taken by the consumer, but someone, ever since the Fall, has had to take it. Rose Macaulay
food felt
When I have eaten mangoes, I have felt like Eve.
food squirrels grit
First, a gorgeous breakfast: just everything you can imagine from flapjacks and fried squirrel to hominy grits and honey in the comb...we're so impatient to get at the presents we can't eat a mouthful. Truman Capote
food angel cooking
He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food. Raymond Chandler
food winter smell
The winter evening settles down With smell of steaks in passageways. T. S. Eliot
food cheese firsts
Never commit yourself to a cheese without having first examined it.
food credit littles
Gourmet: Usually little more than a glutton festooned with credit cards. Sydney J. Harris
food wedding-anniversary wife
The Cheesecake Factory is a great business model, but if you take your wife there for your 25th wedding anniversary, you might not reach your 26th. Scott Adams
food exercise weight-loss
If I liked food and disliked exercise as much as a 400 pound guy, I'd be a 400 pound guy.
food animal two
So if animals aren't our friends, then what are they? The answer can be summed up between two buns. Stephen Colbert
food ice cooking
The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream. Wallace Stevens