Quotes About Food

Rendering the slaughter process less inhumane is a possibility. A question is whether "humane slaughter" legislation for poultry will speed or delay the day when regarding a fellow creature as food is no longer an option.

Southern hospitality and Amish cooking - Ya'll Come Back, Danki.

One more piece of advice: Never eat at any place ending in the words corral or barn. The food at those establishments is all beige.

A wing or a thigh? Ah, I'm afraid we don't have any thighs left.

No nightmare could have conjured the nauseating food she'd choked down late last night, nor in any dream would she have subconsciously surrounded herself with such primitive amenities. Fertile though her imagination was, it was not sadistic.

Peas were for pussies. Real soldiers used mashed potato. With extra gravy.

quinoa + bell peppers + carrots + parsley + rice vinegar + sesame oil/seeds

Be careful of the magician that tricks you into believing that what you do with food has no consequences.

A food truce, the picnic suspension of oedipal feeling that permits the generations to love each other at family reunions.

Perhaps the knowledge of one's death, ceaselessly swallowed, is the very food you need to become a ghost. They burned that knowledge up like whale fat and continued to shine on.

Later I had to raise the baby rats she ate, and why I thought one creature was my beloved pet while the other creatures were food is still a mystery to me. That was my first clue that love can warp a hierarchy; the whole pyramid got flipped on its head.

I try to fill the emptiness deep inside me with Cheetos, but I am still depressed. Only now my fingers are stained orange. I am blue. And I am orange.

Having a teenager is like having a really, really shitty roommate. They eat all your food and steal your clothes and take money out of your purse and borrow your car without asking.

I could eat a knob at night.

Poverty was nature surviving in society; that the limitedness of food and the unlimitedness of men had come to an issue just when the promise of boundless increase of wealth burst in upon us made the irony only the more bitter.

Instead of the greatest happiness for the greatest number, one should demand, more modestly, the least amount of avoidable suffering for all; and further, that unavoidable suffering—such as hunger in times of an unavoidable shortage of food—should be distributed as equally as possible.

I loved everything about Spain - the people, the language, and the food!

I think Australian food is probably some of the best in the world.

If there is something in my food that somebody says is a poison, I want to have the chemistry explained and decide for myself whether or not I want to eat it.

The Kopper Kettle had a New Englander's fish and chips special that couldn't be beat. The clam chowder was thick, creamy, and stuck to his ribs. The blueberry pie was homemade.

Dinner was a desultory mash of gray meat and root vegetables.

Around 13 percent of people worldwide are malnourished. How much food would it take to meet their caloric needs? Just 3 percent of the global food supply. To put that in context, 30–50 percent of the world's food gets lost post-harvest, wasted in global supply chains or scraped off dinner plates and into kitchen bins.44 Hunger could, in effect, be ended with just 10 percent of the food that never gets eaten.

A food is not necessarily essential just because your child hates it.

From The Jilting of Granny Weatherall ] You waste life when you waste good food.