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Quotes About Food

She was too good a cook and I was too faithful a disciple of her art.
~ James Herriot
The hell with the toilet paper. I'm grabbing the the Steaks. I can always wash my ass, I'm feeding my ass.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
God made food; the devil the cooks.
~ James Joyce
Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liverslices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencods' roes. Most of all he liked grilled mutton kidneys which gave to his palate a fine tang of faintly scented urine.
~ James Joyce
A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.
~ James Joyce
Though their life was modest, they believed in eating well.
~ James Joyce
What is home without Plumtree's Potted Meat? Incomplete.
~ James Joyce
He sopped other dies of bread in the gravy and ate piece after piece of kidney.
~ James Joyce
If we could only live on good food like that, he said to her somewhat loudly, we wouldn't have the country full of rotten teeth and rotten guts. Living in a bogswamp, eating cheap food and the streets paved with dust, horsedung and consumptives' spits.
~ James Joyce
He scraped a pork chop and two eggs out of the frying pan and slid them off the spatula onto a plate. "You sure you don't want any?" "You know how much grease is in that stuff?" "That's why I've never had problems with arthritis. The grease in your food oils your joints and your connective tissue. Nobody in my family has ever had arthritis." "Because they didn't live long enough," I replied.
~ James Lee Burke
The waiter brought him a bowl of gumbo. Clete dipped the end of his po'boy sandwich into the bowl and began eating, drinking from his Bloody Mary, filling his mouth with French bread, oysters, lettuce and tomatoes, red sauce, and mayonnaise, stopping only long enough to wipe his chin with a white napkin.
~ James Lee Burke
kneydlach, gefilte fish, kugl, chopped liver, and
~ James McBride
My brothers and sisters were my best friends, but when it came to food, they were my enemies.
~ James McBride
Tomato peelin' start late this year. Meanwhiles we got to eat.
~ James Michener
Huh - Why is Max in the kitchen? Dr.Martinez: We're cooking. Gazzy: She's just keeping you company, right? Dr.Martinez: No, she's cooking. Nudge: Cooking...food? Max: Yes, I'm cooking food, and it's great, and you're going to eat it, you twerps!
~ James Patterson
Angel: What's sauerkraut? Max: You don't want it. Trust me.
~ James Patterson
Do you like to eat things? -I love eating. I list it as a hobby.
~ James Patterson
We know," Nudge said apologetically. "It's just—she's going to make sweet potatoes with raisins and little marshmallows on top.
~ James Patterson
Because frying bacon is how we stoic Irishmen say I love you.
~ James Patterson
Each person here, except me, was living out his worst nightmare, facing his biggest fear—even the dog. It was under a counter, staring horror-stricken at a bowl of generic dog food. I
~ James Patterson
Anne is quite the animal lover," Fang said to me as we followed Angel. "Horses, sheep, goats. Chickens. Pigs." "Yeah," I said. "I wonder who's for dinner?
~ James Patterson
We might be forced to eat raw s'mores
~ James Patterson
I thought we'd whip up some French toast," says Uncle Frankie. "Should I plug in the toaster?" asks Gaynor.
~ James Patterson
Anybody else still hungry?" I asked. "I need a quick candy break." "Not me," said Tommy. "I ate all those little finger sandwiches, which, when you think about it, is kind of a gross name for food. I mean, who wants to eat a sandwich with a finger in it?" "You
~ James Patterson