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Quotes About Food

for the bringer of meat is welcome at any fire.
~ Louis L'Amour
sleep whenever there was time and to eat when there was food.
~ Louis L'Amour
When men live by hunting it is a constant task with all our mouths to feed, and usually the Indians who came visiting. The
~ Louis L'Amour
I may have ruined my life, but at least I got to eat some really good Chinese food.
~ Louis Sachar
And what would you like, Sharie? asked Miss Mush. What do you have? asked Sharie. Potato salad. What else is there? asked Sharie. Nothing said Miss Mush. Okay said Sharie. I'll have that. Potato salad? asked Miss Mush. No,nothing. said Sharie.
~ Louis Sachar
What do you eat?" she asked. "Mulligan stew," said Bob. "My friends and I collect scraps of food all day, and then we cook it up in a big pot and share it. It's always different, but very tasty." "Why is it called mulligan stew?" asked Stephen. "There was once a hobo named Mulligan," said Bob. "He made the first mulligan stew." "Was he a good cook?" asked Todd. "No, he was eaten by cannibals.
~ Louis Sachar
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~ Louis Sachar
Christopher Columbus's favorite vegetable?" asked the lunch lady. Deedee knew that one. "Cabbage!
~ Louis Sachar
turkey sandwich, piece of chocolate cake, apple, and Tootsie Roll pop tasted like Miss Mush's porridge.
~ Louis Sachar
He wiped the dirt off and realised it was an onion. He bit into it without peeling it. The hot, bitter juice burst into his mouth. He could feel it all the way up to his eyes. And when he swallowed, he felt its warmth move down his throat and into his stomach. He only ate half. He gave the other half to Zero. Here, eat this. What is it? Zero whispered. A hot-fudge sundae.
~ Louis Sachar
Los hombres sólo gruñen cuando tienen hambre
~ Louisa May Alcott
Did he like celery?' 'Does anybody?
~ Louise Erdrich
Met with Jim Watt. He's taking a lot of abuse from environmental extremists but he's absolutely right. People are ecology too and they cant forage for food and live in caves.
~ Ronald Reagan
Crusty brown bread, butter, and a pot of pâté de foie gras; chicken Kiev, and the makings of a salad. Olive oil, fresh peaches, cheeses; a bottle of Scotch, a couple of bottles of wine. She bought flowers, an armful of daffodils
~ Rosamunde Pilcher
I wish to eat, said Mowgli. I am a stranger in this part of the jungle. Bring me food, or give me leave to hunt here.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Boil 'em once or twice in hot water, and they'll come as fair as chicken and ham.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Sweeties were a breakfast cereal. They did not snap,crackle or pop, or do anything the more talented cereals did.
~ Ruth Park
Lulu writes: "When Mother, Mr. Jones and I were walking through those strange, crowded downtown streets, where people were sticking their hands into pickle barrels, pointing to smoked fish, and eating sliced herring, I saw the scene in a whole new way. They weren't buying food: They were finding their way home.
~ Ruth Reichl
We waited, eating resilient, deeply satisfying bread dipped in spicy oil that tasted exactly like fresh olives. Doug reached out and stroked my knee and I had a sudden conscious thought that I was happy.
~ Ruth Reichl
It was Mac who first made me think about the way food brought people together — and kept them apart.
~ Ruth Reichl
we were attempting to snatch hope from the rubble of our broken city. And food was the perfect way to do it.
~ Ruth Reichl
Now rush the eggs into a large bowl of ice water; this will keep that unattractive green ring from forming around the yolk.
~ Ruth Reichl
I've wondered about that before, why is it that so much Korean food is spicy? Korea has an incredibly rich culture, but history has been cruel to the people ... But no matter how bad your situation is, you need to eat. And spicy food is a powerful ally when your reserves of courage and energy are low because it stimulates your appetite.
~ Ry? Murakami
Whoever has weapons, has food. Whoever has food, has power. We are here among people who do not contemplate transcendence and the existence of soul, the meaning of life and the nature of being. We are in a world in which man, crawling on the earth, tries to dig a few grains of wheat out of the mud, just to survive another day.
~ Ryszard Kapu?ci?ski