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Quotes About Food

A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually waste away, and eventually die.
~ Mark Twain
No man can hope to be elected in his state without being photographed eating a hot dog at Nathan's Famous.
~ Nelson Rockefeller
I have no idea why it apparently takes three grown men to cook some hamburgers. One to cook, one to kibbitz, and one to insult the other two.
~ Nora Roberts
Every man has some favorite topic of conversation, on which, by a feigned seriousness of attention, he may be drawn to expatiate without end.
~ Samuel Johnson
A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
~ Samuel Johnson
This was a good dinner enough, to be sure, but it was not a dinner to ask a man to.
~ Samuel Johnson
Good tuna-fish sandwiches; he's the tallest man I've ever seen! (Pam)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
One finds many companions for food and drink, but in a serious business a man's companions are very few.
~ Theognis of Megara
Dinners are defined as 'the ultimate act of communion;' men that can have communion in nothing else, can sympathetically eat together, can still rise into some glow of brotherhood over food and wine.
~ Thomas Carlyle
A hungry man is not a free man. Freedom from hunger is a fundamental right. Without this freedom, such fundamental right cannot exist.
~ Silvio Berlusconi
The way to a man's heart is through his stomach...just make sure you thrust upward through his ribcage.
~ Stephen Colbert
....oysters are the only food that never causes indigestion. Indeed, a man would have to eat sixteen dozen of these acephalous molluscs in order to gain the 315 grammes of nitrogen he requires daily.
~ Jules Verne
The normal food of man is vegetable.
~ Charles Darwin
The freedom of man, I contend, is the freedom to eat.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
A man that can cook you a proper meal that is like a weekday meal - which I think cannot be better than in the form of a roast chicken - that's the greatest.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
The things men come to eat when they are alone are, I suppose, not much stranger than the men themselves.... A writer years ago told me of living for five months on hen mash.
~ M. F. K. Fisher
You can always judge a man by what he eats, and therefore a country in which there is no free lunch is no longer a free country.
~ Arthur Baer
Washington is not a place to live in. The rents are high, the food is bad, the dust is disgusting and the morals are deplorable. Go West, young man, go West and grow up with the country.
~ Horace Greeley
The quickest way to a man's heart really is through his stomach, because then you don't have to chop through that pesky rib cage.
~ Jeph Jacques
This food-and-shelter theory concerning man's efforts is without insight. The desire for praise is more imperative than the desire for food and shelter
~ Eric Hoffer
If the bees disappear, man would have only four years of life left.
~ Albert Einstein
From my earliest memory, times of crisis seemed to end up with women in the kitchen preparing food for men.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Saw a man in Whole Foods yelling at his son, What are you doing?! You know I don't eat bread!! Is there such a thing as health food abuse?
~ Bob Saget
I have another proof that we're going to have food in Heaven! And man did eat angel's food.-Manna! So angels can eat food!
~ David Berg