Quotes About Food

When the waitress puts the dinner on the table, the old men look at the dinner. The young men look at the waitress.

The poor man must walk to get meat for his stomach, the rich man to get a stomach to his meat.

In the southern half of the country perhaps no crop has larger possibilities for quick increase of production of food for both men and animals than the sweet potato.

What this loss means will be appreciated from the statement that one bushel of wheat contains sufficient energy to support the average working man for 15 days.

As refined fare serves a hungry man as well as and no better than coarser food, the more pretentious artist will not dream of inviting the hungry man to his meal.

Give me a good sharp knife and a good sharp cheese and I'm a happy man.

Kindness is a painless thing to give, and easy, a sop to those you do not need. Friendship and kindness have nought to do with this.' For a moment, the look in his eyes, as brilliant as an eagle's in the harsh inscrutability of his face, terrified her. 'I am not kind to the air I breathe, nor the food I eat, nor to you.

I have an enormous fondness for delicious food. It's very comforting.

Our people have become as processed as our food.

Another day, another juicy, mouth-watering, charbroiled Krabby Patty.

When vitamin B12 from food reaches the small bowel, it is bound to IF, a glycoprotein secreted by parietal cells of the stomach. The vitamin B12–IF (cobalamin-IF) complex is then transported through the terminal ileum into the circulation. Vitamin B12 absorption cannot occur in the absence of IF.

Sham Harga had run a succesful eatery for many years by always smiling, never extending credit, and realizing that most of his customers wanted meals properly balanced between the four food groups: sugar, starch, grease and burnt crunchy bits.

Music can also be a sensual pleasure, like eating food or sex. But its highest vibration for me is that point of taking us to a real understanding of something in our nature which we can very rarely get at. It is a spiritual state of oneness.

There are some things that don't change much. I find the smell of a dish, or the way a certain spice is crushed, or just a quick look at the way something has been put on a plate, can pull me back to another place and time. I love those memories that seem so far away, yet you can hold them and carry them with you, even forget them, and then, with a single taste or hint or a smell, be chaperoned back to a beautiful moment.

One finds many companions for food and drink, but in a serious business a man's companions are very few.

In Sicily where food is love and the street is a stage street food is more than a cheap meal it's Communion.

Pray to the Lord humbly, then, for this gift of sorrow; say, in the words of the sacred author, Lord, allot me for food, for drink, only the full measure of my tears.

Me and Greg Davies once shared a whole jar of pesto, neat, during the Edinburgh festival years ago because we had no food in the flat.

Eating is a necessity but a pleasure as well.

My mom is Asian and loves all of the throwaway parts of the animal, so she actually thanks me for saving her the neck and other parts.

Food should be cheap, and labor should be cheap, and everything should be the same no matter where you go; whether it's a McDonald's in Germany or one in California, it should be the same. And this message is destroying cultures around the world. Needless to say, agriculture goes with it.

I called a bunch of the restaurants in my neighborhood that I had assumed served all-organic food, and so many didn't!

In restaurants in my Brooklyn neighborhood, I always ask for a doggie bag to bring the leftovers home.

Milkbars were not only a crucial part of Australian food culture for nearly half a century, but also influenced the way many of us connected with neighbours.