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Quotes About Food

Green Eggs and Ham was the story of my life. I wouldn't eat a thing when I was a kid, but Dr. Seuss inspired me to try cauliflower!
~ Jim Carrey
Right afterward I read Fast Food Nation. That book changed my life: It made me a vegetarian.
~ Amber Tamblyn
I do adore food. If I have any vice it's eating. If I was told I could only eat one food for the rest of my life, I could put up with sausage and mash forever.
~ Colin Baker
To barbecue is a way of life rather than a desirable method of cooking.
~ Clement Freud
People who like to cook like to talk about food....without one cook giving another cook a tip or two, human life might have died out a long time ago.
~ Laurie Colwin
You waste life when you waste good food.
~ Katherine Anne Porter
Scallops are expensive, so they should be treated with some class. But then, I suppose that every creature that gives his life for our table should be treated with class.
~ Jeff Smith
Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is
~ Isaac Mizrahi
When people ask me how to find happiness in life I tell them, First learn how to cook.
~ Charles Simic
What am I singing? A song of seeds The food of love. Eat the music.
~ Kate Bush
A lot of it revolves around food with me because a lot of my life does in a way.
~ Danny DeVito
Spice is life. It depends upon what you like... have fun with it. Yes, food is serious, but you should have fun with it.
~ Emeril Lagasse
Not everyone in Italy may know how to cook, but nearly everyone knows how to eat. Eating in Italy is one more manifestation of the Italian's age-old gift of making art out of life.
~ Marcella Hazan
The day my child tries a celery is the most stressful day of my life.
~ Ariana Grande
For the first 50 years of your life the food industry is trying to make you fat. Then, the second 50 years, the pharmaceutical industry is treating you for everything.
~ Pierre Dukan
Ketchup left overnight on dinner plates has a longer half-life than radioactive waste.
~ Wes Smith
A diet is when you watch what you eat and wish you could eat what you watch.
~ Hermione Gingold
Then there is the boy who talks out loud to himself and his only subject is food. This is what he sounds like— Meat, stew, potatoes, peppers, roasted turnips, spices, flour to thicken. Cook over low heat. Potato dumplings, edges browned, not burned. Ladle thick gravy on roast. Cabbage galumpkies, noodle kugel, Carrot cake with dates, finely chopped…
~ Jennifer Roy
bread, the cornerstone of eating, one of the fundamentals of life!
~ Jenny Colgan
Muffins are just an American way of saying, 'I eat cake for breakfast.
~ Jenny Colgan
Some people buried their fears in food, she knew, and some in booze, and some in planning elaborate engagements and weddings and other life events that took up every spare moment of their time in case unpleasant thoughts intruded. But for Nina, whenever reality, or the grimmer side of reality, threatened to invade, she always turned to a book.
~ Jenny Colgan
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~ Jenny Colgan
That's why you're not allowed to touch the Christmas trees," said Phoebe, nodding and carefully moving all the bits of carrot away from the chicken. She had to eat them, but she would put it off to the last possible moment.
~ Jenny Colgan
I can eat a man, but I'm not sure of the fiber content.
~ Jenny Eclair