Quotes About Food

It is known that beans were the subject of an orphicopythagorean prohibition, because of certain 'sacred reasons concerning souls' (Jambl., VP, 109). They were believed to be imbued with life, and to give them as food to the dead was to spare the living who were threatened by the Lemuria.

Any single guy who doesn't eat peanut butter is at risk of starvation.

status is a resource.39 If status expands your access to food or sex, then it makes sense to seek status in the abstract, just as it makes sense to seek money even though you can't eat it.

Nunca entres al restaurante de un chino. Será un misterio para ti lo que te dé de comer.

where Halder and Hans usually arrived first and had something to eat, perhaps sausage with a bit of sauerkraut.

I enjoy vegetarian food like I enjoy a kick in the stomach.

In some species, females are so successful as prostitutes that they never need to find food themselves.

you'd be wise to eat lightly, or not at all, of any food you do not prepare yourself." "At all the feasts and festivities that will be there?" "No. Only at the ones you wish to survive.

It was an impressive display of good food abused in the name of fashionable cooking.

I know of nothing more warming than hot meat and tea and good fellowship.

I ate, boy. Early this morning. Some awful fish soup. The cooks should be hanged for that. No one should face fish first thing in the morning.

A dark provider skimmed lazily along above them. As it swept over their heads, it cast forth food for them.

In Italy, they add work and life on to food and wine.

I wondered what you'd have on the side with a plate of Deep Fried Anxiety. Pickles? Coleslaw? Potato-strychnine mash?

The private soldiers of France were not well treated during the Great War; compared with their lot, the soldiers of the other armies on the Western Front were blessed with good food, reliable mail, adequate pay, frequent reliefs and regular leave.

I'm nutty for nutrition. I've become one of those people who can't stop talking about the connection between food and health. Now that I know how much changing what you eat can transform your life, I can't stop proselytizing.

Refusal to participate is a moral choice. Water is a gift for all, not meant to be bought and sold. Don't buy it. When food has been wrenched from the earth, depleting the soil and poisoning our relatives in the name of higher yields, don't buy it.

Our teacher, Justin Neely, a young man devoted to language revival, explains that while there are several words for thank you, there is no word for please. Food was meant to be shared, no added politeness needed; it was simply a cultural given that one was asking respectfully. The missionaries took this absence as further evidence of crude manners.

But when the food does not come from a flock in the sky, when you don't feel the warm feathers cool in your hand and know that a life has been given for yours, when there is no gratitude in return—that food may not satisfy. It may leave the spirit hungry while the belly is full. Something is broken when the food comes on a Styrofoam tray wrapped in slippery plastic, a carcass of a being whose only chance at life was a cramped cage. That is not a gift of life; it is a theft.

there is no word for please. Food was meant to be shared, no added politeness needed; it was simply a cultural given that one was asking respectfully.

For people, the pulse of abundance felt like a gift, a profusion of food to be simply picked up from the ground.

Nuts are like the pan fish of the forest, full of protein and especially fat—"poor man's meat

When diet is wrong, medicine is of no use. When diet is correct, medicine is of no need.           ââ'¬â€ Ayurvedic Proverb

Cooking doesn't just nurture the recipient, it nurtures the chef.