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Quotes About Food

If you're poor, potato chips are the food of life for you. It's the caviar.
~ Sandra Cisneros
It just happens in life, where you resonate with a particular artist. Or it can be a kind of food or a fashion - you discover it and it gives you a whole new lease on life.
~ Steve Vai
There was still food rationing in England and life was difficult all through my 2 year stay in Oxford.
~ Sydney Brenner
Lance Bass needs to quit worrying about outer space and celebrate life by learning how to kill his own food.
~ Ted Nugent
Food is a fairly significant aspect of my life. I have struggled mightily with food. With my weight. And I'm conscious of it. So I have a sensitivity to people who struggle with their weight.
~ Tom Vilsack
When it comes to literal nourishment, the food we eat, life begets life.
~ Victoria Moran
We should enjoy food and have fun. It is one of the simplest and nicest pleasures in life.
~ Julia Child
Frying chicken always makes me feel a little better about life.
~ Kathryn Stockett
The sharing of food is the basis of social life, and to many people it is the only kind of social life worth participating in.
~ Laurie Colwin
...Thus it comes That earth, without her seasons of fixed rains, Could bear no produce such as makes us glad, And whatsoever lives, if shut from food, Prolongs its kind and guards its life no more.
~ Lucretius
Fermentation is right up there with cooking as one of the most powerful methods to transform food.
~ John Durant
Believe it or not, countless generations of children finished their supper before the advent of Kraft Mac & Cheese and ice-cream sandwiches.
~ John Durant
there are serious environmental and ethical problems with the industrial food system.
~ John Durant
the food movement needs people who can do the dirty work: hunt wild boar, gut deer, eat invasive species, try insects, raise animals the right way, and pay for ethically raised meat. That role falls to us.
~ John Durant
Liver is one of the most famously healthy foods in the world: according to a Chinese proverb, "Eat liver, fortify your own liver";
~ John Durant
It's also probably not a good idea to cook meat at extremely high heat, as charred meat has many toxins.
~ John Durant
The goal isn't to feed the world but to spark innovation and incentivize incremental improvements by established players.
~ John Durant
Furthermore, if the acquisitive impulse (euphemistically called "market forces") is not controlled, inequities in the distribution of food and other goods that do remain may deepen, giving rise to potential chaos and war without limits.
~ John E. Mack
The only time making a fist around the fork helps is when you want to stab someone because he's stealing your food. Now I know stabbing people is really rude, so I hold my fork in the grown-up way all the time, and I rely on discreet snarls to protect my dinner from predators.)
~ John Elder Robison
This does not mean that eating potassium chloride in place of sodium chloride, in a low-salt formulation, is risky—it isn't. We need much more potassium chloride in our diet than sodium chloride, but normally we get all we need in the food we eat.
~ John Emsley
The hardest bones of beef itself, and mutton, were made as soft as cheese Source: http://www.evs-translations.com/blog-com/pressure-cooker/
~ John Evelyn
Fu come se avesse appoggiato le labbra su un pezzo di arrosto freddo
~ John Fante
Let's get something to eat." It was the best way he could think of to stop Horace worrying about his daughter.
~ John Flanagan
That'll make Edvin happy. He's always keen to replenish our stocks of fresh meat whenever he can." "It'll make Ingvar happy too," Stig put in. "He's always keen to eat it.
~ John Flanagan