Quotes About Food

Pushing a refrigerated green vegetable from one end of the earth to another is, let's face it, a bizarre use of fuel. But there's a simpler reason to pass up off-season asparagus: it's inferior.

We only knew, somewhat abstractly, we were going to spend a year integrating our food choices with our family values, which include both "love your neighbor" and "try not to wreck every blooming thing on the planet while you're here.

I think of my canning as fast food, paid for in time up front.

It came in three speeds: the jars with green lids were "mild," whereas pink meant "hot." The red-lidded jars were so-called "firecracker style." The latter was not a big hit with the kids.

I wanted to go home. Which was nowhere, but it's a feeling you keep having, even after that's no place anymore. Probably if they dropped a bomb and there wasn't any food left on the planet, you'd still keep feeling hungry too.

Lou Ann's life was ruled by the fear of salmonella, to the extent that she claimed the only safe way to eat potato salad was to stick your head in the refrigerator and eat it in there.

by This Organic Life, a compelling book by Joan Dye Gussow that tells how, and more important why, she aspired

From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.

800 million people are chronically underfed (6 will die of hunger-related causes while you read this article), it's because they lack money and opportunity, not because food is unavailable in their countries.

At its heart, a genuine food culture is an affinity between people and the land that feeds them.

U.S. policies restrict feeding cow tissue directly to other cows, but still allow cows to be fed to other animals (like chickens) and the waste from the chickens to be fed back to the cows.

Our addiction to just two crops has made us the fattest people who've ever lived, dining just a few pathogens away from famine.

stewie pewie tomatoes. And also sometimes

I'll be having me tea and a bacon buttie

A friend who loves Paris once told me, 'There aren't many things we humans need to do. We need to eat, we need to drink, we need to make love. And the French attitude is, okay, we should do those things very well.

We give disproportionate weight to whether yogurt is said to be five percent fat or 95 percent fat free. People seem to think that yogurt that is 95 percent fat free is a more healthful product than yogurt that has five percent fat.

Roll me in sugar and call me a fuckin jelly-doughnut!

Apple pie without a piece of cheese is like a smooch without a squeeze.

Beings arise from food; food arises from rain; rain arises from worship; worship, from ritual action; ritual action, from God; God, from the deathless Self. Thus, the all-present God requires the worship of men.

Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is not putting it in fruit salad.

What does Karl Marx put on his pasta? Communist Manipesto!

Just Like Canada, with Better Bacon.

una hamburguesa con queso, como ha calculado el economista Kevin Murphy, cuesta 2,5 dólares más que una ensalada en repercusiones en la salud a largo plazo.

Chris Rock observed, "This is the first society in history where the poor people are fat.