Quotes About Food

Let's get lunch at Aunt Carrie's. She looked away, trying to hide her vivid memories of the outdoor café. She and Alex had gone there as kids, sunburnt, their hair stiff with salt and their bare feet, to eat clam cakes and blueberry pie.

How'm I doing, Mamma? Celesta, twenty years gone, would undoubtedly approve. The restaurant smelled like the kitchen of Rosa's childhood; the menu featured many of the dishes Celesta had once prepared with warmth, intense flavors and a certain uncomplicated contentment Rosa constantly tried to recapture. She wanted the restaurant to serve Italian comfort food, the kind that fed hidden hungers and left people full of fond remembrances.

Her grandmother wasn't alone in thinking that if you were a vegetarian you had to like tofu, as if it were an obligation you'd incurred.

Did you know that Lincoln liked popcorn, and oysters, and a good strong cup of coffee?

Important Tip: Avoid arsenic in any dishes. Seems that a dead guest has a way of putting a damper on a party. Go figure.

She gathered wild greens and berries while he prepared the rest of supper. They ate largely in silence except for her praise of the fish and a brief discussion about how to catch the best trout. She favored nets, he preferred lines.It was all very polite.

Humor keeps us alive. Humor and food. Don't forget food. You can go a week without laughing.

Humor keeps us alive. Humor and food. Don't forget food. You can go a week without laughing.

In natural life, as long as he finds food, a lion does not wander over great distances, and certainly Elsa had seen more of the world than she would have done living with a pride. Yet she knew her home, and whenever we returned from safari she would go straight back to her habits and usual routine.

Anyway, food is only a temporary solution. You eat, you get fat, and you're blue again!

Rich people fetishize even what they eschew, the food they cannot eat: it makes them special. Here in Chicago, having people over for dinner is a logistical feat. Some of our friends are gluten-free by choice, while others decline all refined sugar on principle; some are vegan and some merely ovo-lacto vegetarian; some won't consume palm oil because of the rainforests and tiger habitats. Some are on that paleo diet, while others are merely lactose intolerant. It takes a spreadsheet.

Más vale un jaleo probé y unos pimientos asaos que no tener un usía esaborío a su lao.

Chill out and enjoy your chili that's not from Chile!

As you review your efforts, can you honestly see the food game? Who won? Who lost? Questions about winning and losing bring us to the meat of the matter.

There was something about feeding a man who appreciated your efforts and ate every bite.

It makes me so angry - there's enough food in the world but people are starving. It's all political.

Eric Richards could be our special event for the party," said Suzanne. "If there's any chance that he'll come, we'll have to make the party more special than just silly old tapes and kids in ponytails and bobby socks." "Maybe we could get the kitchen to cook up something super to eat," Meg suggested. "What kind of food did they eat in the fifties?" she asked. Denni snorted. "The same kind of food they eat now!

Without peanut butter, I might starve.

In Tuzla, erzählt sie, gebe es Kinder, die noch nie eine Portion Pommes frites gesehen haben. Hach, denke ich, so viel Elend auf der Welt. "Und Sie", frage ich, "schon mal eine Portion Pilav gesehen?" Sie stutzt. "What's Pilav?" "Fastfood"' sage ich. "Landestypisch." Das habe ich von der Menütafel an der Wand in ihrem Rücken abgelesen. Sie wechselt das Thema.

The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.

Animals that we eat are raised for food in the most economical way possible, and the serious food producers do it in the most humane way possible. I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages.

I think careful cooking is love, don't you? The loveliest thing you can cook for someone who's close to you is about as nice a valentine as you can give.

As we say in the American Institute of Wine and Food, small helpings, no seconds. A little bit of everything. No snacking. And have a good time.

I think one of the terrible things today is that people have this deathly fear of food: fear of eggs, say, or fear of butter. Most doctors feel that you can have a little bit of everything.