Quotes About Food

When you ate her tuna casserole, you didn't talk or flip through a National Geographic. Your eyes and ears stayed inside your mouth. Your whole world kept inside your mouth, feeling and careful for the little balled-up tinfoils Irene Casey would hide in the tuna parts. A side effect of eating slow was, you naturally, genuinely tasted, and the food tasted better. Could be other ladies were better cooks, but you'd never notice.

That's why the bran muffins and the colonoscopies.

Taco Tuesday. Only in prisons and aboard submarines were people more excited about food than they were in office jobs.

Píse? Å alamounova, kapitola 7., verÅ¡ 2: Pupek tv?j jako koflík okrouhlý, ne bez nápoje; bÃ…â"¢icho tvé jako stoh pÅ¡enice obrostlý kvítím. V Bibli se v?bec dost míchá sex s jídlem.

Afterword) Years [after the book became a success], a young man pulled me aside before a book event. He said he loved how in Fight Club I wrote about waiters tainting food. He asked me to sign a book and said he worked in a five-star restaurant where they monkey with celebrities' food all the time. "Margaret Thatcher," he said, "has eaten my sperm." He held up one hand, fingers spread, and said, "At least five times.

heads together. I tell the waiter, give us clean food, please. Please, don't be doing any trash to the stuff we order. In that case, sir

Don't judge me, Captain Judgeypants. I go there for the sandwiches.)

a strangely prolonged lunch involving lobster, that infernally overrated food....

Forks are absurd, he scoffed. They insult your food. They make it think you're killing it twice.

What would the cost of [a] hamburger at TGI Fridays be if, instead of paying for the outcome of good food delivered in a congenial location by friendly service, we actually just paid for the number of cooks . . . and how many wait staff that went by . . . What would happen to the price of a hamburger?

We wouldn't eat an important person like you. Sometimes we'll take a sailor, but — He shrugged. — so would you if it was always fish.

and chicken, grits with shrimp and crab, a southern coleslaw

Also, I have a mornid fear of rates, and mice, and nettles and wasps and jagged cans and rotting food and damp newspapers and the unemployed.

Desmond looked up from his plate. "I haven't eaten this good since…" He couldn't think of it. "They should inspect this place all the time.

Stickups were chops - they cook fast and hot, you're in and out. A stakeout was ribs - fire down low, slow, taking your time.

We do children an enormous disservice when we assume that they cannot appreciate anything beyond drive through fare and nutritionally marginal, kid-targeted convenience foods. Our children are capable of consuming something that grew in a garden or on a tree and never saw a deep fryer. They are capable of making it through diner at a sit-down restaurant with tablecloths and no climbing equipment. Children deserve quality nourishment.

Whenever the degraded majority and the promoted minority came into conflict (and there were plenty of opportunities for this, starting with the distribution of food) the results were explosive.

Well, Dr. Einstein, what's for supper tonight? Alphabet soup?

Right now I am thinking of writing another cookbook. All cookbooks have a gimmick, and mine will be that it contains recipes that I have invented and named after famous people. Some of them are: Brisket of Brynner (very lean meat) Carson Casserole (it's got everything on it) Barbecued Walters Marinated Maude Roasted Rhoda King King Curry (it will feed about eight thousand people) Fricassee of Fonzi Pickled Rickles Raquel Relish Leftovers à la Gabors

I prefer men to cauliflowers

What passes for cookery in England is an abomination.

We have been taking into our mouths the bodies of dead birds.

Una buena cena es de suma importancia para una buena conversación. No se puede pensar bien, amar bien, dormir bien, si no se ha cenado bien.

The dining-room was curiously impersonal, like all places where people eat,—perhaps because food is our chief link with the common chaos of matter rolling about us.