Quotes About Food

Using his burgeoning intelligence, this most successful of all mammals has exploited the environment to produce food for an ever increasing population. Instead of controlling the environment for the benefit of the population, perhaps it's time we controlled the population to allow the survival of the environment.

Ninety-six percent of the mass of all the mammals on Earth is made up of our bodies and those of the animals that we raise to eat.

The three-fold increase in obesity in less that a quarter of a century cannot be the result of genetic change in the population. Rather, it is the result of increased availability and consumption of food, coupled with decreased physical activity.

It will be a great day for America, incidentally, when we begin to eat bread again, instead of the blasphemous and tasteless foam rubber that we have substituted for it. And I am not being frivolous here, either. Something very sinister happens to the people of a country when they begin to distrust their own reactions as deeply as they do here, and become as joyless as they have become.

It's simple and delicious. So quit being such a snob.

To dine in this kitchen is ever a satisfying experience. My preference for kitchen dining never seems to wane. It is not nostalgia but a natural expression of my love for food and its preparation. It seems to me that the pleasure of eating is heightened if one is there amidst the delightful smells to witness the moment when the finished dish comes out of the pot or the oven. And usually the less time lost between stove and table, the better.

Too few people understand a really good sandwich.

I grew up in a kitchen, and I guess the scent of food is like a perfume. It has stayed with me all my life.

Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts!

A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch.

Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; and good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts.

I believe that if ever I had to practice cannibalism, I might manage if there were enough tarragon around.

Bacon-Fried Chicken

There is absolutely no relationship between an artificially flavored canned pork and a real ham.

The omelette tasted like flannel.

Other than such delicacies, foragers developed little surplus food. As anthropologist Gregg notes, "mobile populations generally do not store foodstuffs against seasonal or unexpected lows in resource availability." Consequently, foragers had little to steal.

There were few neighbors outside one's own small family or clan to pose threats. Because foragers tended to roam in search of food, personal possessions beyond a bare minimum became an encumbrance.

Taste good?" Brenda asked as she dug into her own food. "Please. I'd push my own mom down the stairs to eat this stuff," Thomas said. "I'd kill your mother for something fresh out of a garden. A nice salad." "Guess my mom doesn't have much of a chance if she's ever standing between us and a grocery store." "Guess not.

A small piece of bacon flew out of his mouth when he spoke.

I'd love to see a cheeseburger right about now, though.

How can you enjoy ice cream if you never eat broccoli?

I want steak," he said, stopping to look at her. "And shrimp. And lobster. And pancakes. And a candy bar". "I'm sorry, you'll have to settle for a couple of sandwiches". Thomas sighed."Figures".

The rage crept in. Like a shivering rat looking for a spot of warmth, a crumb of food.

Dozens of people who'd been boo-hooing their eyeballs out an hour earlier were laughing like overcaffeinated hyenas, stuffing their face with a whole week's worth of SQ-rationed food. Dak wondered whether funerals for old people always ended up being such festive affairs.