Quotes about food
food men vegetables
The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me and I to them. Ralph Waldo Emerson
food perfect cooking
There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.
food color chinese
We (the Chinese) eat food for its texture, the elastic or crisp effect it has on our teeth, as well as for fragrance, flavor and color. Lin Yutang
food ayurveda cooking
Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.
food numbers people
The best way to eat crabs, as everyone knows, is off newspaper at a large table with a large number of people. Laurie Colwin
food house pet
I will never eat fish eyeballs, and I do not want to taste anything commonly kept as a house pet, but otherwise I am a cinch to feed.
food past cooking-classes
No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, the wisdom of cookbook writers.
food drinking believe
A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young an' believing. Tennessee Williams
food people want
People want honest, flavourful food, not some show-off meal that takes days to prepare. Ted Allen
food two dishes
Two words to improve any dish. Ba, Con
food reason deny
I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.
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 good-day fidgeting
I could talk food all day. I love good food. Tom Brady
food thinking house
Anyone who thinks they're too grown up or too sophisticated to eat caramel corn, is not invited to my house for dinner Ruth Reichl
food community pull-ups
Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious.
food different sitting
Sitting down to a meal with an Indian family is different from sitting down to a meal with a British family. Roland Joffe
food believe hands
I believe that if you don't want to do anything, then sit there and don't do it, but don't expect people to hand you a corn beef sandwich and wash your socks for you and unzip your fly for you. Shel Silverstein
food vacuums spaghetti
Spaghetti can be eaten most successfully if you inhale it like a vacuum cleaner. Sophia Loren
food thinking people
Tofu tacos are not Mexican. I think putting tofu on anything and calling it Mexican is an insult to my people. Simone Elkeles
food mean science
[P]opulation, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every twenty-five years, or increases in a geometrical ratio. ... [T]he means of subsistence, under circumstances the most favorable to human industry, could not possibly be made to increase faster than in an arithmetical ratio. Thomas Malthus
food divorce people
Studies find top 3 most stressful moments in people's lives: death, divorce, and properly pronouncing "Worcestershire sauce." Tony Hsieh
food winning loses
When we lose, I eat. When we win, I eat. I also eat when we're rained out. Tommy Lasorda
food anorexia
Where do you go to get anorexia? Shelley Winters
food humor cooking
I got food poisoning today. I don't know when I'll use it. Steven Wright
food kitchen ingredients
And don't forget music - music in the kitchen is an essential ingredient! Thomas Keller