Quotes About Nourishment

she ran to the little bed and seized hold of her beloved with a tender moan (my chocolate croissant, my little warm brioche), and began to eat her up with kisses. This consuming love never stopped. When Marie drank her coffee, she would nibble her daughter's cheek between two sips, the way others take a puff on their cigarette.

Once you engage with the simple enough business of feeding yourself, of soil and water, weather, season and harvest, it becomes personal. It is about you, your family and friends. Food becomes an aspect of those relationships as well as your intimacy with your plot.

I'm not really into getting bunches of flowers if I'm a bit under the weather, I'd rather have something to eat.

I've cooked plenty of meals when I was sad, lonely, depressed, angry, bored, and/or under the weather. My primary aim in these circumstances is generally to cheer myself up, to fill my stomach with something warm so I can feel comforted and fed, usually just with a quick soup or an omelet.

Cooking and eating are among the most important ways we weave days into lives.

See, I just don't want to starve at my wedding. So, my dream wedding is one where I get to eat a meal while everyone else enjoys themselves as well.

Food trucks are an essential part of people's days. They are important to the fabric of feeding people, like hotel chefs cooking breakfasts or for weddings.

I go to church every Sunday, which is like going to the gas station once a week and really, really filling up.

I'm very keen on the family getting together around the table because you learn so much of what's going on. With a full tummy, they begin to talk to you. People now have busy lives, but once or twice a week, it's lovely to sit all around together.

Love for your work, love for another person, love for yourself - love is a huge pond, and it's never empty. You can go and take from it, and it will give you strength.

If you have some potatoes, green beans and cauliflower, you have a heck of a dish that can feed an entire family.

Twenty-first-century food is going to be real food. Real food is food that is truly nourishing for the consumer, the community, and the planet.

I would like to help people cook more.

I cook every day.

I really like to cook.

I'm a simple cook, and there's a lot I don't eat. But food is important. It translates so easily into pleasure.

I do believe there will always be a place for beautiful cookbooks that are real books.

I like being at home and cooking.

One of the most meditative times of my day is when I'm cooking.

I enjoy cooking for people I am close to.

I don't believe in low-fat cooking.

It's not like I'm cooking! I'm breastfeeding - I feel like that's the best cooking I could do.

For me, I am very much a champion of home cooking and home cooks.

Both my mom and sister are great cooks; some of the best food I have had were made by them.