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Quotes About Food

My thoughts hovered over all varieties of mortal edible, and finally settled on a porterhouse steak and a quart of bitter with a welsh rabbit to follow. In longing hopelessly for these dainties I fell asleep.
~ John Buchan
Artists talk a lot about freedom. So, recalling the expression "free as a bird," Morton Feldman went to a park one day and spent some time watching our feathered friends. When he came back, he said, "You know? They're not free: they're fighting over bits of food.
~ John Cage
So somebody has talent? So what? Dime a dozen. And we're overpopulated. Actually we have more food than we have people and more art. We've gotten to the point of burning food. When will we begin to burn our art?
~ John Cage
Fasting of the body is food for the soul.
~ John Chrysostom
Benny's was more of a restaurant than a bar, assuming you were prepared to be generous with your definition of a restaurant ... A menu board on the wall above had adjustable plastic letters and numbers arranged into the kind of prices that hadn't changed since Elvis died, and the kinds of food choices that had helped kill him.
~ John Connolly
Our current food system is simply unsustainable: when as many as 20 calories of energy or resources goes into every 1 calorie of food nutrition that we end up eating;
~ John D. Ivanko
The stories of wine lords who trade wine on intimidation or food critics who trade free meals for reviews those are the stories of my life. I am telling the stories of my life in a true way.
~ Joe Bastianich
In Cuba you get a quarter of a chicken per month. They give you one bread per person a day. So, it makes your life really tough.
~ William Levy
Since war often enters homes through the "kitchen door," we need to understand women's attempts to keep life going in the face of shortage of food, closing of schools and reduced freedoms.
~ Zainab Salbi
I may have ruined my life, but at least I got to eat some really good Chinese food.
~ Louis Sachar
Mrs. Schneiderman's theory of life was that earth held no sorrow that food could not heal.
~ Bess Streeter Aldrich
The British hamburger thus symbolised, with savage neatness, the country's failure to provide its ordinary people with food which did anything more for them than sustain life.
~ Clive James
I like to eat and the only thing I've ever been addicted to in my life is sugar.
~ Crispin Glover
It takes a great cook to pull life truth from poultry.
~ Joan Bauer
Declare a truce and accept food as a life-giving friend.
~ Jane Fonda
One thing I've never said in my whole life is, 'Let's have dinner at a Japanese restaurant.'
~ Alan King
In Kali yuga, duration of life is shortened not so much because insufficient food but because of irregular habits.
~ Radhanath Swami
Cooking is a life skill. We need to eat every day so why not find out about what you're putting into your body?
~ William Katt
I do like a little bit of butter to my bread.
~ A. A. Milne
Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals
~ Abraham Verghese
All those animals live a pretty dreary life, then they get chopped up and put on a griddle.
~ Alec Baldwin
When you've been on a ghetto diet your entire life, you're just happy to get a large soda instead of a medium.
~ Chris Rock
The best way to lose weight is to close your mouth - something very difficult for a politician. Or watch your food - just watch it, don't eat it.
~ Edward Koch
No matter how sophisticated, how cynical the public may become about publicity methods, it must respond to the basic appeals, because it will always need food, crave amusement, long for beauty, respond to leadership. If
~ Edward L. Bernays