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Quotes About Mealtime

back to my hotel, where it was always mealtime.
~ Paul Theroux
We eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner together almost every day. You'd think we'd have long run out of things to say, but as the weather changes all the time, we are never at a loss for conversation.
~ Woody Allen
The thing is, I hate cooking," said Joy. The words rushed out of her mouth: traitorously, venomously. "You've no idea how much I hate cooking, and it just never ends, the cooking, night after night after bloody night. Each night at five o'clock, like clockwork, your father says, 'What's for dinner?' and I grit my teeth so hard I can feel it in my jaw.
~ Liane Moriarty
Only make one meal for your kids. They won't starve to death if they don't eat it. In fact, if they are hungry every night because they refuse dinner, perhaps they'll learn to eat more. "I call it the Starbucks Phenomenon: The expectation that it's okay for each person in the family to order something different in the home," Dr. Fishel says. "That's just another burden on who is doing the cooking and could be another impediment.
~ Unknown
The decline of the Sunday meal is a major concern because it means that family values are being forgotten. Once that creeps into mealtimes, it will begin creeping into other areas.
~ Ainsley Harriott
I eat very well. I cook for my family every night. We eat a variety of things, including chicken, fish, pork, lentils, all veggies, pastas, and salads. You name it, we eat it - except salmon, which I find disgusting. Sorry, salmon.
~ Alicia Coppola
Rita got up and took the baby away down the hall to the changing table, trailing an aroma that was definitely not pork chop, and I put down my empty plate and settled back onto the couch with a sigh: Dexter Digesting. For
~ Jeff Lindsay
There was something about having a plan for dinner, a recipe in hand, that made her feel much less hostile about food.
~ Jennifer Crusie
Gogol is unaccustomed to this sort of talk at mealtimes, to the indulgent ritual of the lingering meal, and the pleasant aftermath of bottles and crumbs and empty glasses that clutter the table.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
Sitting down to eat in our house is about sharing, you know, talking about the day you've had, be it in school or work or whatever, so that's very important to us.
~ Liam Neeson
12% of employees eat because they are hungry. 88% of employees eat because it is 1 o'clock.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Durante o jantar
~ Philip Pullman
Dinner time arrives, and as a rule I have done nothing. Now comes the problem which faces me twice every day — how to suffice in my own person for two children, put on their bibs, turn up their sleeves, and get them to eat. In the midst of these ever-recurring cares, joys, and catastrophes, the only person neglected in the house is myself
~ Honore de Balzac
Luego está la ración. España es el único sitio del universo, si no me equivoco, donde la gente come antes de irse a casa a comer. Me parece genial.
~ Unknown
Beth's father waited until he had everyone's attention and then instructed them to join hands. He bowed his head. Sam did as well, although he had no idea what had concerned both of the women in the other man's life. "Good friends," Phillip said, "good meat. Good God, let's eat.
~ Debbie Macomber
Gamache bit into a grilled chicken and roasted vegetable baguette and decided he was going to enjoy mealtimes in this place.
~ Louise Penny
when you ask what she does she says: "You know how most families hardly eat together anymore and when they do, they don't eat as healthy as they should? I'm a private chef . . ." The second chef is way more interesting. In fact, as she talks, you start picturing her in your home, cooking meals for your family.
~ Donald Miller
Water does an amazing job of detoxifying your body. The trick though is to not drink water with your meals. This will dilute your digestive juices and make digestion less efficient. Do not drink anything thirty minutes before you eat a meal, and then wait two hours after a meal to have a drink.
~ Unknown
This is what a family is all about - one another, sitting around the table at night. And it's very, very important, I think, for the kid to spend time not only around the table eating with their parents, but in the kitchen.
~ Jacques Pepin
Para aliviar a tensão fiz uma pergunta, minha ignorância real ou fingida sempre serviu para desviar as discussões que se armavam entre papai e mamãe na hora das refeições, acho a mesa o local preferido para um casal deixar bem claro que o amor acabou e em lugar dele ficou outra coisa. Mais tarde descobri que a cama é um lugar melhor ainda para esse tipo de definições.
~ Unknown
In general my children refuse to eat anything that hasn't danced in television.
~ Erma Bombeck
A dining room table with children's eager hungry faces around it, ceases to be a mere dining room table, and becomes an altar.
~ Simeon Strunsky
Once the pasta is sauced, serve it promptly, inviting your guests and family to put off talking and start eating.
~ Marcella Hazan
Food was a constant topic of conversation in our household.
~ Paul Lynde