Quotes about food
food yellow people
Life... is like a grapefruit. Well, it's sort of orangey-yellow and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, too. Oh, and some people have half a one for breakfast. Douglas Adams
food people cooking
Seriously, if someone don't like this appetizer, you gotta grab they scruffy ass by the back of their neck and throw them out on the lawn. I can't help people like that. Coolio
food cooking asian
This dish ain't just called Karate Meat because it's got an Asian kick to it. It's called Karate Meat because it will beat you up like a pigeon in prison.
food ifs
If food were free, why work? Douglas Horton
food cooking recipes
Cooking is an observation-based process that you can't do if you're so completely focused on a recipe. Alton Brown
food-culture america excess
Clearly, America's dysfunctional food culture must bear some of the blame for our excess pounds, but it's likely our walking-averse lifestyles contribute as well. Andrew Weil
food health people
Get people back into the kitchen and combat the trend toward processed food and fast food.
food cooking guests
HOSPITALITY, n. The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food and lodging. Ambrose Bierce
food men oysters
OYSTER, n. A slimy, gobby shellfish which civilization gives men the hardihood to eat without removing its entrails! The shells are sometimes given to the poor.
food substance hens
Custard: A detestable substance produced by a malevolent conspiracy of the hen, the cow, and the cook.
food wine drunk
Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.
food cereal people
WHEAT, n. A cereal from which a tolerably good whisky can be made; . . . also for bread. The French are said to eat more bread "per capita" of population than any other people, which is natural, for only they know how to make the stuff palatable.
food ninety-nine civilization
SAUCE, n. The one infallible sign of civilization and enlightenment. A people with no sauces has one thousand vices; a people with one sauce has only nine hundred and ninety-nine. For every sauce invented and accepted a vice is renounced and forgiven.
food wine bottles
Empty wine bottles have a bad opinion of women.
food drawing cooking
EAT, v.i. To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of mastication, humectation, and deglutition. 'I was in the drawing-room, enjoying my dinner,' said Brillat-Savarin, beginning an anecdote. 'What!' interrupted Rochebriant; 'eating dinner in a drawing-room?' 'I must beg you to observe, monsieur,' explained the great gastronome, 'that I did not say I was eating my dinner, but enjoying it. I had dined an hour before.'
food evil moderation
Glutton- A person who escapes the evils of moderation by committing dyspepsia.
food cooking madness
Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.
food cooking religion
Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
food cooking bread
Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.
food science men
Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
food important
Food simply isn't important to me. Alice Paul
food taste way
Let things taste the way they are. Alice Waters
food health anxiety
What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease. Alexander Pope
food wine lovers
Wine lets no lover unrewarded go.
food weight-loss punishment
Eating crappy food isn't a reward -- it's a punishment. Drew Carey
food health eating-good
Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon. Doug Larson
food golden existence
Food ... is the topmost taper on the golden candelabrum of existence. Donald Barthelme
food soul body
Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul. Dorothy Day
food hunger easy
If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate. Diogenes
food breathe steam
Chowder breathes reassurace. It steams consolation. Clementine Paddleford
food simplicity culture
We all have hometown appetites. Every other person is a bundle of longing for the simplicities of good taste once enjoyed on the farm or in the hometown left behind.
food pudding world
In moments of considerable strain, I tend to take to bread-and-butter pudding. There is something about the blandness of soggy bread, the crispness of the golden outer crust and the unadulterated pleasure of a lightly set custard that makes the world seem a better place to live. Clement Freud
food diversity
I like to eat and I love the diversity of foods. David Soul