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Quotes About Food

Hey, here's something crazy: In the Word, poverty, widows, hunger—these are not metaphors. There are billions of lambs that literally need to be fed. With food.
~ Jennifer Hatmaker
I cook all my meals at home.
~ Jennifer Hudson
I used to hang out by the food table at parties because you don't have to talk to anybody. If you do then you can talk about the food.
~ Jennifer Jason Leigh
Three Meatloaf Haikus Oh yucky meatloaf sitting under the hot lights so gray and gristly. Nothing tastes worse than you, not cauliflower or even lima beans. And what is that weird thing sticking out--a whisker? hair? a rubber band?
~ Jennifer L. Holm
Crackers with a smear of mustard and a tiny bit of ham.
~ Jennifer L. Holm
I like to cook Puerto Rican food. That's what I grew up on: rice, beans, meat, some Italian-American food. I know my way around the kitchen.
~ Jennifer Lopez
I do love Italian food. Any kind of pasta or pizza. My new pig out food is Indian food. I eat Indian food like three times a week. It's so good.
~ Jennifer Love Hewitt
She places the orders for cases of frozen meat, huge cans of wax beans. She makes sure they stay
~ Jennifer McMahon
A lot of campaigning for food purity is a translated worry about abundance. You still eat your fill, but you agonize over the food's contents. We are a pack of animals that allows some to have excess food while others starve. Those who have so much get finicky about what is good to eat; they become obsessed by it, re-creating scarcity for themselves so as to not feel guilty, confused, or dangerously envied.
~ Jennifer Michael Hecht
and spinach from the pan
~ Emeril Lagasse
Nobody even spoke now, for they were all stupified by the accmulation of woes-- granpa coughing and spitting black, with his old rheumatic complaint returning to dropsy, father asthmatical, his knees swollen up with water, mother and the children scarred by scrofula and hereditary anaemia. Of course all that was part of the job, and you didn't complain except when the lack of food finished you off.
~ Émile Zola
After the third course the entrees had made their appearance; they consisted of pullets a la marechale, fillets of sole with shallot sauce and escalopes of Strasbourg pate.
~ Émile Zola
Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
~ Emily Dickinson
As I've said many times, the only way to stay trim is to eat bacon.
~ Emily Giffin
May there be no frost on your potatoes, nor worms in your cabbage.
~ Emma Donoghue
Why are places to eat called coffee shops?" I ask him. "Well, coffee's the most important thing they sell because most of us need it to keep us going, like gas in the car." Ma only drinks water and milk and juice like me, I wonder what keeps her going. "What do kids have?" "Ah, kids are just full of beans." Baked beans keep me going all right but green beans are my enemy food.
~ Emma Donoghue
David's parties
~ Enid Blyton
No, mademoiselle, I would not like to see the children's menu. I have no doubt that the children's menu itself tastes better than the meals on it. I would like to order à la carte. Or don't you serve fish to minors?
~ Eoin Colfer
Pizza, pizza, Fill up your face, The thicker the pastry, The better the base!
~ Eoin Colfer
Friese boeren eten alle dagen grauwe capucijners. - Butler
~ Eoin Colfer
Spud's Spud Emporium.
~ Eoin Colfer
Did you bring any food? I haven't eaten for, wow, it must be minutes.
~ Eoin Colfer
In life our first job is this, to divide and distinguish things into two categories: externals that I cannot control, but the choices I make with regard to them I do control. Where will I find food and bad? In me, in my choices.
~ Epictetus
In the countryside the systematic requisitioning of food (which the urban Sansculottes had been the first to advocate) alienated the peasantry.
~ Eric J. Hobsbawm