Quotes About Food

My lunch consisted of a glass of wine (which the waiter solemnly called "grape juice")

Who threw the overalls in Mrs. Murphy's chowder?

Any gastronome who is not an environmentalist is stupid, and any environmentalist who is not a gastronome is sad.

If you're happy, you eat. If you're sad, you eat. You lose a job, you eat. You get a job, you eat. It's, you know, it's addiction.

Onions make me sad. A lot of people don't realize that.

Both happy and sad people can be cheered up by a nice meal.

America is a country of abundance, but our food culture is sad - based on huge portions and fast food. Let's stop with the excuses and start creating something better.

The truth is: the natural world is changing. And we are totally dependent on that world. It provides our food, water and air. It is the most precious thing we have and we need to defend it.

To preserve my brains I want food and this is now my first consideration. Any sympathetic letter from you will be helpful to me here to get a scholarship.

...the avocado is a food without rival among the fruits, the veritable fruit of paradise

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.

There is too much talk of cooking being an art or a science – we are only making ourselves something to eat.

For me, a kitchen is like science fiction. I only go there to open the refrigerator and take something out.

The frying pan you should give to your enemy. Food should not be prepared in fat. Our bodies are adapted to a stone age diet of roots and vegetables.

It is, of course, one of the miracles of science that the germs that used to be in our food have been replaced by poisons.

I love watching, I love getting all the science about food. That's one of my favorite things.

Now, there is always a tremendous fear of science and progressing forward into areas of the unknown and it is a valid fear. Some of the genetic alterations of food are a little edgy.

If the weight comes from bacon you can so deduct it off the scale total to get your true weight. #science

I have had it with these dumb cakes on this dumb spaceship!

When my stomach grumbled, I filled up on hamburgers, hot dogs, gyros, tacos, jerk chicken, pizza, and a side salad because I was watching my figure

Food commonly eaten for more than 150 years should be innocent until proven guilty, and food invented in the last 150 years is guilty until proven innocent.

Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals

The real national dish of the French right now-the cheap available food-is couscous. But North African cooking remains segregated in couscous parlours and has not been brought into the main current. A fossilised metropolitan tradition, yet what took its place was a sentimental nationalism.

parsley. Vegetables these days are chopped into tiny grass.