Quotes About Food

Is still ridiculous," Pyotr said. "Is so American, subtracting foods! Other countries, when they want healthiness they add foods in. Americans subtract them.

Braised pork on a bed of polenta drizzled with maple syrup.

The smells of smoke and vinegar made him hungry; all he'd had for lunch was a peanut-butter-and-raisin sandwich.

Grilled cheese sandwiches were all he knew how to make. He fried them over high heat and they gave off a sharp, salty smell that Willa had learned to associate with their mother's absences—her sick headaches and her play rehearsals and the times she slammed out of the house.

Amanda said, "Isn't it interesting: people never seem to bring liquor when somebody dies, have you noticed? Why not a case of beer? Or a bottle of really good wine? Just these everlasting casseroles, and who eats casseroles nowadays?

O dead one, why did you die in the springtime? You haven't yet tasted the squash, or the cucumber salad.

And she's certainly a good cook." Miss Betts sighed. "The epitaph of the spinster.

An Eskimo shaman said, Life's greatest danger lies in the fact that man's food consists entirely of souls.

Fun fact: there are also 3,000 varieties of pears. That's right. Even PEARS are more complicated than you thought!

She was a very good cook and also believed that color combinations of the food on your plate were important: It isn't very interesting to eat a plate full of white, therefore it can't be very good for you either.

The link between gangsters nicknamed for food—Benny Eggs and Johnny Sausage—prompted agents to refer to them as "Chin's Breakfast Club.

A factory demands a compliant workforce in order to succeed. And so we've organized around this idea of compliance in all things—in school, in the foods we eat, in the way we respond to marketing. And it's a dead end.

As we have seen, by the time it ended, nearly 4 million Bengalis starved to death in the 1943 famine. Nothing can excuse the odious behaviour of Winston Churchill, who deliberately ordered the diversion of food from starving Indian civilians to well-supplied British soldiers and even to top up European stockpiles in Greece and elsewhere. 'The starvation of anyway underfed Bengalis is less serious' than that of 'sturdy Greeks', he argued.

William Digby calculated that 'the ryots in the Districts outside the permanent settlement get only one half as much to eat in the year as their grandfathers did, and only one-third as much as their great-grandfathers did. Yet, in spite of such facts, the land tax is exacted with the greatest stringency and must be paid to the Government in coin before the crops are garnered!

Two avgolemono, dolmades, falafel with hummus," the waiter repeated, writing it all down

Are you going to tame our little Sissy, Mitchell? Sissy rubbed her face, annoyed, and Mitch answered honestly, I'm really too lazy to try and tame anybody. If I had my way, I'd spend all day sleeping under a tree, maybe rolling out occasionally to sun my belly, and then I expect someone to bring me food. I could live like that forever!

Dzilobommo considera el efecto de su comida en los comensales como un pintor considera el efecto de su cuadro sobre un observador.

Somebody dies and people eat your food. Funny how that works.

And believe me, a good piece of chicken can make anybody believe in the existence of God.

What do you have to worry about? That you're lonely? That you have a mortgage? That your wife doesn't love you? F you, F you. I have to worry about having enough to eat!

Shoving hot bread up a roasting bird's ass & feasting on it seems like an apt celebration of colonialism.

Seymour looked around the Tucson McDonald's. There were white people and Mavajos; there were people who preferred their Quarter Pounders with cheese and those who didn't care for cheese at all; and there were those who desperately wish that McDonald's would introduce onion rings to its menu.

I really miss those cafeterias they use to have in Kmart. I don't know why they stopped having those. If there is a Heaven then I firmly believe it's a Kmart cafeteria.

Xedrix-No, our motto is 'everything tastes better with hot sauce.