Quotes About Food

Respect for food is respect for life, for who we are and what we do.

Cooking is at once one of the simplest and most gratifying of the arts, but to cook well one must love and respect food.

People who love sausage and respect the law should never watch either being made.

A man should not so much respect what he eats, as with whom he eats.

Only with maturity did I come to appreciate my own Chinese roots: not just the food and the ancient history, but also the philosophy of child-rearing and the respect for education and knowledge.

I want to eat good Italian food and get better at their language. It seems so romantic too.

I can be a romantic. The way to every woman's heart is through her stomach. Food is at the core of everything.

Elvis is in the kitchen and he's making eggs Benedict!

You sh?uld eat ? waffle! Y?u ??n't b? sad ?f ??u eat ? waffle!

We all eat & it would be a sad waste of opportunity to eat badly.

If he is thin, I will probably dine poorly. If he is both thin and sad, the only hope is in flight.

Time corrupts. And we pay a price for everything corruptible: food, roof beams, souls.

You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six.

as he bit into the bun a crescent of yellow cream oozed out from the side likde the rising sun. For the first time in ages,Hanio had encountered something about human life that tickled him.

As for international understanding, I feel that macaroni has done more for our appreciation of Italy than Mussolini.

Each year the US population spends more money on diets than the amount needed to feed all the hungry people in the rest of the world.

In an Italian restaurant we expect to find spaghetti in tomato sauce; in Polish and Irish restaurants lots of potatoes; in an Argentinian restaurant we can choose between dozens of kinds of beefsteaks; in an Indian restaurant hot chillies are incorporated into just about everything; and the highlight at any Swiss café is thick hot chocolate under an alp of whipped cream. But none of these foods is native to those nations.

But the best thing fire did was cook. Foods that humans cannot digest in their natural forms – such as wheat, rice and potatoes – became staples of our diet thanks to cooking. Fire not only changed food's chemistry, it changed its biology as well. Cooking killed germs and parasites that infested food. Humans also had a far easier time chewing and digesting old favourites such as fruits, nuts, insects and carrion if they were cooked.

Hammurabi's Code was based on the premise that if the king's subjects all accepted their positions in the hierarchy and acted accordingly, the empire's million inhabitants would be able to cooperate effectively. Their society could then produce enough food for its members, distribute it efficiently, protect itself against its enemies, and expand its territory so as to acquire more wealth and better security.

Dogs that were most attentive to the needs and feelings of their human companions got extra care and food, and were more likely to survive.

Tangan-tangan tambahan itu teramat diperlukan di ladang-ladang. Namun mulut-mulut ekstra itu dengan cepat menghabiskan surplus makanan, sehingga lebih banyak lagi ladang yang harus ditanami.

Whereas the rich residents of Beverly Hills eat lettuce salad and steamed tofu with quinoa, in the slums and ghettos the poor gorge on Twinkie cakes, Cheetos, hamburgers and pizza.

a human being needs just 1,500–2,500 calories per day in order to survive. Anything more is a luxury.

Cultivating wheat provided much more food per unit of territory, and thereby enabled Homo sapiens to multiply exponentially.