Quotes About Food

We obsess about the properties of various ingredients: the protein, the omega oils, the vitamins. But this is getting ahead of ourselves. Nutrients only count when a person picks up food and eats it. How we eat - how we approach food - is what really matters.

All the foods you regularly eat are the ones that you learned to eat. Everyone starts life drinking milk. After that, it's all up for grabs.

From our first year of life, human tastes are astonishingly diverse. As omnivores, we have no inbuilt knowledge of which foods are good and safe. Each of us has to use our senses to figure out for ourselves what is edible, depending on what's available. In many ways, this is a delightful opportunity. It's the reason there are such fabulously varied ways of cooking in the world.

Almost the only places in the world that have lower obesity averages than Japan are countries such as Ethiopia or North Korea where there is widespread hunger and food itself is scarce.

Of all the foods that we could give a child a free rein over, cereal makes the least sense. Parents let children choose cereal but dictate which vegetables they eat; it should be the other way around.

There are signs that the Japanese themselves consider their excellent cuisine as an essential part of what it means to be Japanese.

For people with eating disorders, food is both a poison and the remedy, but this is true for the rest of us as well. Food is an inescapable fact of life and the task for each of us is to find a way to make out peace with it.

When eating goes wrong, the antidote is not a life without food, but figuring out how we can bring ourselves to eat new food in new ways.

If you can improve the eating, the rest of life gets a little better too.

The soul is often hungrier than the body, and no shops can sell it food.

Only the pure of heart can make a good soup.

Love's a thin Diet, nor will keep out Cold.

Q: What do peanut butter and hookers have in common? A: Both spread for bread.

The motto of West African cooking is that if the food doesn't set fire to the tablecloth the cook is being stingy with the pepper.

Whatever was in the sandwiches, you didn't want them getting too warm and going off, or starting to smell, or spontaneously mutating into a new life form.

So etwas wie ein ständiges Spurensicherungsteam gibt es übrigens nicht. da die Spurensicherung so teuer ist, bestellt man sie beim Innenministerium immer nur häppchenweise wie beim chinesischen Lieferservice. Aus der prozession von Plastikanzügen zu schließen, die an uns vorüberzog, hatte Stephanopoulos sich das Super-Deluxe-Menü für sechs Personen mit einer extraportion Reis gegönnt. Und ich war dann wohl der Glückskeks.

You'll need lots of chips to go with that lot." "And salt too, ha ha." "Ha ha." "We aren't going around to other shops buying up all their vinegar, are we?" "No, now we need some plastic buckets.

I don't like my bacon sandwich to be curiously snuffling at my fingers.

Never trust a skinny ice cream man.

We've created a system that demands almost no engagement with our food; we've wrung all the responsibility and sweat equity from the process. It's not that we're getting something for nothing - after all, we do pay for our food, and we suffer the consequences of dining from the industrial trough. But charging a package of center-cut pork chops to your Visa is a hell of a lot different than facing down the source of those chops with a .22 in one hand and a well-honed knife in the other.

Goat curry and a female librarian, that's what I'm in the mood for.

What is the use of living if you cannot eat cheese and pickles?' she asked. As cofounder of the Cheese Eaters League, Ivor thought she had a point.

What is the use of living if you cannot eat cheese and pickles?

Our lunch conversation turned quickly to the game