Quotes About Food

Families are struggling against a tide of junk information on junk food.

His bread was lofty, light. If she didn't hold on to the sandwich tightly, she thought it might float away.

A nation of inspired cooks and enthusiastic eaters has, of course, coined a specific word for a lust for a food—goloso (from gola for "throat"), which goes beyond mere appetite, craving, or hunger. Friends readily, even proudly confess to being golosi for cioccolata, sfogliatelle (stuffed pastries), or supplì (melt-in-your-mouth rice and cheese balls).

A nuclear power plant is infinently safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year.

I shouldn't think even millionaires could eat anything nicer than new bread and real butter and honey for tea.

Mrs. Jakes had sent up stew and apple pie.

I shouldn't think even millionaires could eat anything nicer than new bread and real butter and honey for tea.

Eggs crack. Butter pops in a hot pan. Soon all of Marie-Laure's attention is absorbed by the smells blooming around her: egg, spinach, melting cheese. An omelette arrives. The eggs taste like clouds. Like spun gold. Marie-Laure can hear a can opening, juice slopping into a bowl. Seconds later she is eating wedges of wet sunlight.

I tried every diet in the book. I tried some that weren't in the book. I tried eating the book. It tasted better than most of the diets.

My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order.

Brian is obese, like round, like the Pillsbury doughboy on a Twinkie binge.

If it was raining soup, the Irish would run outside with forks.

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Eating is one of the great beauties in life. One of my favorite recreations... eating with friends, the service, the ambience.

In my own life, I decided to leave meat off my plate in medical school, but was a bit slow to realise that dairy products and eggs are not health foods either.

When I eat with my friends, it is a moment of real pleasure, when I really enjoy my life.

A cookie has no soul, it's just a cookie. But before it was milk and eggs. And in eggs there's the potential for life.

Country to me is living life at its simplest: Learning to appreciate a sliced vine-ripe tomato with a dash of salt, served between two slices of good bread and eaten over the kitchen sink.

I always had a fantasy of being a chef, because I like kitchen life.

Even more importantly, it's wine, food and the arts. Incorporating those three enhances the quality of life.

It isn't bread that feeds you; it is life and the spirit that feed you through bread.

Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.

Life is good when you have a good sandwich.

White pudding and eggs and sausages and cups of tea! How simple and beautiful was life after all!