Quotes About Food

THOU SHALT NOT CONSIDER GRAVY AND HOLLANDAISE SAUCE A BEVERAGE.

I don't know who made the laws; But I know there ain't no law that you got to go hungry.

We ate well and cheaply and we drank well and cheaply and we slept well and warm together and loved each other.

What an excellent fish dolphin is to eat cooked, he said. And what a miserable fish raw. I will never go in a boat again without salt or limes.

I thought you'd be interested in these things as a government man. Ain't you mixed up in the prices of things we eat or something? Ain't that it? Making them more costly or something. Making the grits cost more and the grunts less?

The men ate seriously.

Then we ate even smaller eels alone cooked in oil and as tiny as bean sprouts and curled in all directions and so tender they disappeared in the mouth without chewing.

This is how Paris was in the early days when we were very poor and very happy. We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.

But I, when I undress me Each night, upon my knees Will ask the Lord to bless me With apple-pie and cheese.

It has been estimated that a hunter-gatherer needs about ten square miles of game and berry-filled land to live on, whereas agriculture can produce enough calories in a tenth of that space to keep fifty people alive.

In this, the people living in the Near East were especially fortunate. There are fifty-six edible grasses growing wild in the world – cereals like wheat, barley, corn and rice. Of those, no fewer than thirty-two grew on the hills and plains of the Fertile Crescent of today's southern Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Israel and Iraq, compared with just four varieties apiece in Africa and America, and only one native variety, oats, in Western Europe.

The cooking oil they use sets off our olfactory senses designed to seek out foods with high fat. We're programmed to be addicted. Add in salt and the fructose in ketchup, and it's the perfect food—if you're a Neolithic caveman getting all his other nutrients by eating gallbladders and animal intestines.

The real danger is that the good guys will blindly keep doing bad things that they don't see as bad. It's why people who would give the shirt off their back to help the poor and the hungry will then march against genetically modified food, even if such food products could save millions of children from blindness or starvation

Cow pastures exist because we need meat, not because of any clever social thinking on the cow's behalf.

Zookeepers move the food around each day so the gorillas don't get bored. They turn it into an Easter-egg hunt. The gorillas need challenges. The lack of one makes 'em go nuts. We need someone to hide our food," I explain.

By mid-November I always like to have an extra 15 pounds on me.

Don't like fish. They eat drowned sailors – don't seem right to eat them in return.

Everyone prefers some foods over others, but some adults take this tendency to an extreme. These people tend to prefer the kinds of bland food they may have enjoyed as children - such as plain or buttered pasta, macaroni and cheese, cheese pizza, French fries and grilled cheese sandwiches - and to restrict their eating to just a few dishes.

It does kids no favors, and sets them up for a potential lifetime of poor health and social embarrassment, to excuse them from family meals of real food. Everyone benefits from healthy eating, but it is particularly crucial at the beginning of life.

Clearly, America's dysfunctional food culture must bear some of the blame for our excess pounds, but it's likely our walking-averse lifestyles contribute as well.

Geralt finished his mug of herb tea, grimacing dreadfully. He valued and liked the settled elves for their intelligence, calm reserve and sense of humour, but he couldn't understand or share their taste in food or drink.

The postal station smelled of fried onions and potato soup.

Bumbler is right on one account: the aeschna has as much in common with a cinerea as I do with a fox. We both like to eat duck.

Bo uwierzyli, ?e zmartwychwsta?? Ciesz? si?, bo ojciec si? cieszy?, bo dziad si? cieszy?, bo mo?na si? naje??. Biedny lud mia? uczt? dwa razy do roku – w Bo?e Narodzenie i w Wielkanoc.