Quotes About Food

I am the kind to sit in front of the telly for hours. In fact, my parents and I are addicted to food shows. We can watch them endlessly. People who have seen us like, this call us a crazy family.

I think there is a real misconception about Indian food being super spicy. And I know that's because when you go into an Indian restaurant, it is pretty spicy. But it doesn't have to be. In fact, my husband can't handle a lot of heat. I've had to temper my cooking so that he can eat with me.

I don't have the talent, the temperament, or the patience to be a great chef. I'd much rather order from someone who can really do it. I love restaurants. They make my life better.

If you have acid in food, you need to sugar it. At a high temperature, the acids are changed to sugar.

The body is both a temple and a perfect machine. Our bodies have within them a healing potential, and we nourish this potential with the pure and simple foods found in nature.

There's the Hollywood sign there's Griffith Observatory there's the great, amazing Los Angeles Basin. It's 465 square miles of insanity and the best food on the planet.

Food in our society is a chronic poverty need, not a life-threatening one. And when we respond to a chronic need as though it were a crisis, we can predict toxic results: dependency, deception, disempowerment.

Why do we persist in giving away food when we know it fosters dependency?" "Because it's easier!

There's a can of cat food and a spoon on the floor somewhere. Take it out back and bang on it. My cat's still out there.

That's like complaining you're getting a gut, so you go on an all-Twinkie diet.

Her mother set the cake beside a stuffed pork loin tied tightly with cooking string. "My favorite," Keera said stepping closer. "What did you stuff inside?" "Prosciutto, Gorgonzola cheese, chopped bacon, minced garlic, fresh parsley, and onions.

I thought coffee was a prerequisite for being a cop." "That's donuts. What do lawyers eat?" "Each other.

Night and day. San Francisco is wine and cheese; Oakland is beer and bratwurst.

To be sure, food keeps us alive, but that is only its smallest and most temporary work. Its eternal purpose is to furnish our sensibilities against the day when we shall sit down at the heavenly banquet and see how gracious the Lord is. Nourishment is necessary only for a while; what we shall need forever is taste.

Food is the daily sacrament of unnecessary goodness, ordained for a continual remembrance that the world will always be more delicious than useful.

Against all the propaganda for fancy eating and plain cooking, I hope to persuade you to cook fancy and just plain eat. It is better for your soul.

The poor man may envy the rich their houses, their lands, and their cars; but given a good wife, he rarely envies them their table.

For the second one, put down that I like food. As a child, I disliked fish, eggs, and oatmeal, but when I became a man, I put away childish things. My tastes are now more catholic, if not omnivorous. My children call me the walking garbage pail. (On my own terms, of course, I refuse the epithet: All that I take is stored lovingly in an ample home--it becomes not waste, but waist.

In the orientation of the creative, once you have consciously made the choice to be healthy and you are attracted to eating certain foods and following certain forms of exercise, you are involved in an organic process. The structural tendency of this organic process is for you to be attracted to those processes that will be particularly beneficial to your health. Those processes might include the usual, expected ones, such as health food and exercise, as well as unexpected ones.

It would be nice if the Food and Drug Administration stopped issuing warnings about toxic substances and just gave me the names of one or two things still safe to eat.

The brain is natural. Its food is natural. The result, thought, must be natural. The supernatural can be constructed with no material except the natural.

Strike looked down at his own plate: where there should have been chips, there was only salad.

something he wanted to eat that might also plausibly support weight loss.

love-making and good food are the essential ingredients of life