logo

Quotes About Food

You're lucky," Horace told him. "I dream of food when I'm hungry." "You dream of food when you're not hungry," his friend said.
~ John Flanagan
Jesper," Hal said, "find a food stall and get a pie or a sausage for Ulf. Buy it. Don't steal it," he added. Jesper looked offended, but said nothing. In fact, he had been planning to "liberate" a pie for Ulf and save some money. He didn't consider taking food to be stealing. Everybody did that, he thought. He just did it better than most.
~ John Flanagan
Every dog knew that if you didn't eat beef the moment it was set before you, it had a tendency to escape.
~ John Flanagan
We have a special air-cured ham that's made for us by
~ John Flanagan
bacon is a little like chewing shards of pottery. And the eggs deserved a better fate.
~ John Flanagan
Let me put it this way. . . . It's not the best. Eating the bacon is a little like chewing shards of pottery. And the eggs deserved a better fate.
~ John Flanagan
Jenny, of course, would gravitate immediately to the castle kitchens, domain of Master Chubb, Redmont's head chef. He was a man renowned throughout the kingdom for the banquets served in the castle's massive dining hall. Jenny loved food and cooking, and her easygoing nature and unfailing good humor would make her an invaluable staff member in the turmoil of the castle kitchens
~ John Flanagan
It's surprising how often history is decided by something as trival as bad shellfish.
~ John Flanagan
What will not luxury taste? Earth, sea, and air, Are daily ransack'd for the bill of fare. Blood stuffed in skins is British Christians' food, And France robs marshes of the croaking brood.
~ John Gay
the real junk food is what Frank Lloyd Wright called light entertainment - bubblegum for the eye ...
~ John Geddes
Alaska decided to go help Dolores with dinner. She said that it was sexist to leave the cooking to the women, but better to have good sexist food than crappy boy-prepared food.
~ John Green
Ah! on Thanksgiving day.... When the care-wearied man seeks his mother once more, And the worn matron smiles where the girl smiled before. What moistens the lips and what brightens the eye? What calls back the past, like the rich pumpkin pie?
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
So on day one God created the basis for time; day two the basis for weather; and day three the basis for food. These three great functions—time, weather and food—are the foundation of life. If we desire to see the greatest work of the Creator, it is not to be found in the materials that he brought together—it is that he brought them together in such a way that they work.
~ John H. Walton
A dead cow or sheep lying in a pasture is recognized as carrion. The same sort of a carcass dressed and hung up in a butcher's stall passes as food.
~ John Harvey Kellogg
Yeah, where I come from, we eat our sushi cooked—medium rare. And it's made out of a cow.
~ John Henson
As a freelance writer, I'd be asked to become an expert for various magazines on any subject, whether food or wine or history or the life span of veterinarians. I was completely unschooled in any of these things.
~ John Hodgman
consumer staples include food, beverages, and household products that consumers need to buy in good times and bad.
~ John J. Murphy
The Grow Biointensive method is especially important for areas with scarce water.
~ John Jeavons
Food is power. . . are you in control of yours?
~ John Jeavons
According to Robert S. McNamara, former president of the World Bank, without firm action to further reduce the population growth rate, world population will not stabilize below eleven billion. "At the national level," states McNamara, "rapid population growth translates into a steadily worsening employment future, massive city growth, pressure on food supplies, degradation of the environment, an increase in the number of 'absolute poor,' and a stimulus to authoritarian government.
~ John Jefferson Davis
Canned food is a perversion,' Ignatius said. 'I suspect that it is ultimately very damaging to the soul.
~ John Kennedy Toole
Tacos are not only for Tuesdays.
~ John Kresl
Places of confinement providing free food and medical care are called prisons.
~ John Lilly
A day with out food,is a day with out war.
~ John Loudon