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Quotes About Food

Shredded Beef in Szechuan Sauce is the absolute shit.
~ Confucius
maybe I should join It's Only Brunch. It's like JustDinner, but with mimosas.
~ Connie Willis
That was the use of knives for women: to cut food for the men who killed with their knives… who killed those women's husbands, their sons, and their daughters.
~ Cornelia Funke
You want a burrito? I asked. Is that a question or a statement of the obvious? Neither. It's an order.
~ Cory Doctorow
Thanks cows. I appreciate your tastiness.
~ Craig Ferguson
Twas the night before Thanksgiving. All the food's in the oven. And I'm in the bedroom performin' self lovin'.
~ Craig Ferguson
They laughed, and they started making steak for dinner, or sausage, although, because of the kind of people they were (insufferable people, Nell thinks now), it had to be grass-fed or free-range or organic. And not too frequent.
~ Curtis Sittenfeld
money and Republicans and sausage did not strike me as a particularly tempting combination.
~ Curtis Sittenfeld
Mama!' Rosie tugged on my shirt. 'This broccoli is tasty and wonderful'.
~ Curtis Sittenfeld
Joanna had the fisherman's pie. 'What's under the mashed potato?' Slider asked. Joanna chewed thoughtfully for a moment and then looked down. 'Something white,' she said at last. 'With little bits of something pink.' She chewed again. 'I am eating, aren't I?' she appealed for reassurance. 'It's so hard to tell without some sensory input, like taste or texture.
~ Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
They spent almost four dollars on supper at the mall, and none of them had dessert. They had hamburgers and french fries and, after Dicey thought it over, milkshakes.
~ Cynthia Voigt
They turned, wiping back sweat-dampened hair. Their grandmother had a cantaloupe cut up into thick slices. She had arranged the slices on a metal cookie sheet.
~ Cynthia Voigt
What exactly is a french before it's fried?
~ D.J. MacHale
The stream of fugitives swelled to a flood, and anxious army officers kept inquiring: "What must be done with slaves, arriving almost daily? Are we to find food and shelter for women and children?
~ W.E.B. Du Bois
The oven was thick with grease.
~ Wally Lamb
Cucinala come vuoi, ma sempre cocuzza el...Cook squash anyway you like, but it's still squash.
~ Wally Lamb
And would you three like peanuts, pretzels, or Biscoff cookies with those?
~ Wally Lamb
We lunch in the grass. My father eats sandwiches stuffed with smelly foods Ma and I refuse to eat: liverwurst, vinegar peppers, Limburger cheese. He drinks hot coffee right from the thermos and his Adam's apple moves up and down when he swallows.
~ Wally Lamb
It is ham; there is no such thing as Canadian bacon.
~ Walter Block
Jobs had always been an extremely opinionated eater, with a tendency to instantly judge any food as either fantastic or terrible. He could taste two avocados that most mortals would find indistinguishable, and declare that one was the best avocado ever grown and the other inedible.
~ Walter Isaacson
Perché la minestra si fredda," he writes. Because the soup is getting cold.24
~ Walter Isaacson
Syrian-born graduate student in Wisconsin who became biological father of Jobs and Mona Simpson, later a food and beverage manager at the Boomtown casino near Reno.
~ Walter Isaacson
Oster blender. I poured that concoction into a griddle of sizzling butter, then sprinkled diced strawberries on the wet side. Three
~ Walter Mosley
To augment their misery, a contagious disorder of a dangerous nature spread through the land; and, rendered more virulent by the uncleanness, the indifferent food, and the wretched lodging of the lower classes, swept off many whose fate the survivors were tempted to envy, as exempting them from the evils which were to come.
~ Walter Scott