Quotes About Food

A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.

Ghar ki murg; dal barabar.

hot breakfast on a cold winter morning

Happy cooks make happy food.

She cleared her throat once or twice, and said something about poor people should eat a lot of herrings, as they were most nutritious, also she had heard poor people eat heaps of sheeps' heads and she went on to ask if I ever cooked them. I said I would rather be dead than cook or eat a sheep's head; I'd seen them in butchers' shops with awful eyes and bits of wool sticking to their skulls. After that helpful hints for the poor were forgotten.

Little bits were one of Dorey Jewett's gems: small, sweet lobster knuckles that were sautéed in butter. There were no herbs involved, just enough of a Ritz-cracker coating to absorb the butter for ease of eating.

Being plied with fine food always puts me in mind of the slammer, cause the food was jumpin' in there too--high in fat but nice and salty. You know what the worst deprivation in there was My music. Radio belonged to my cell mate, the Blonde Hammer. He was into that jazz-fusion thing at the time. I tell you what, enough Spyro Gyra and you're hoping you'll get killed in a knife fight.

When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food.

CRANBERRY JELLY IN A CAN 2. EXPLODING BISCUITS 3. NIPSY DOODLES 4. RAINBOW SPRINKLES 5. TOILET PAPER 6. MONEY

Surely many a romance must have been nipped in the bud by sitting opposite somebody eating spaghetti?

It would be a reciprocal relationship—the woman giving the food and shelter and doing some typing for him and the man giving the priceless gift of himself,' said Mark, swaying a little and bumping into a tree. 'It is commoner in our society than many people would suppose.

T]heir cats will be looked after too -- one only hopes Daisy won't put in more food for them than for the humans.' Faustina [the cat] looked up from her saucer, her dark face made all the more reproachful by its beard of milk.

You did too order salami. Yes ya did. Yes ya did. Then why'd you take a big ol' bite out of it?

Tuna salad, egg salad, chicken salad, turkey salad, shrimp salad. What difference does it make? It's all just different words for mayonnaise. Pick one.

My training is in the arts of killing and preparing the kill for consumption. I am told you call this home economics.

Wie ich gehört habe, soll es Leute geben, die Spaß am Kochen haben und es jeden Abend tun. Sie schnippeln und würfeln, putzen und schälen, schmoren und dünsten, pochieren und dämpfen und lachen dabei die ganze Zeit wie Irre in einem Glücksrausch.

At least he took the rest of the food I brought him. A growing boy fighting his insane father to the death has to keep the calorie count up there. Fighting to the death is sweaty work.

For some strange reason, beans always fall off knives.

It used to be that you would go out to the theater and get a bite or you would go to the game and get a bite or go to the concert and get a bite. At this point in our society, the bite is often the main event. So it has to be more than turkey and gravy and potatoes. The lighting and the buzz and everything in addition to the food have an impact on what the customer feels. In that way, it's very much in the theatrical sense.

There are all kinds of myths going on in the Italian culture, and the way they celebrate is through their food. It's the tradition of the table where the Italians celebrate most of their triumphs and successes.

There are two activities in life in which we can lovingly and carefully put something inside of someone we love. Cooking is the one we can do three times a day for the rest of our lives, without pills.

Once you become an elaborate and well-developed culture, anything from Rome or the Etruscans, for that matter, the food starts to become a representation of what the culture is. When the food can transcend being just fuel, that's when you start to see these different permutations.

I think that the most important part of Italian cooking is done before you get in the kitchen. And that's in the purchasing of the ingredients.

My mom made something that I always requested for my birthday called mock chicken legs. She would take ground veal and ground pork and mix it up with a bunch of spices, and then take a Popsicle stick and put it inside a little ball of the meat. Then you bake them. It was like a veal-and-pork hamburger rolled in ground-up Rice Krispies. It was delightful.