Quotes About Food

Men would eat horse droppings, if ye served them wi' butter.

Man is an animal that cooks his victuals.

A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who ''lives well.''

I do love a man who can cook.

That's what children do - throw food. That's not fighting. We were real men. We'd have chinned them.

Food sacred to the manes or to the gods must be given to a man distinguished by sacred knowledge, for hands, smeared with blood, cannot be cleansed with blood.

Avarice is a cursed vice: offer a man enough gold, and he will part with his own small hoard of food, however great his hunger.

It is a solemn thought: dead, the noblest man's meat is inferior to pork.

Only people who are assured of daily food can concern themselves with matters of principle and ethic. A man will become a slave rather than starve.

The most fertile districts of the habitable globe are now actually cultivated by men for animals, at a delay and waste of aliment absolutely incapable of calculation

And pray what more can a reasonable man desire, in peaceful times, in ordinary noons, than a sufficient number of ears of green sweet corn boiled, with the addition of salt?

Men who pay for what they eat will insist on gratifying their palates

Poverty is such a relative thing; but no man is really poor till life becomes a desert island that gives him neither food nor shelter nor hope.

If a man takes you to a restaurant of his choosing, don't compliment him. Rave about the quality of the food and he'll be thrilled, because he took you there.

No hungry man who is also sober can be persuaded to use his last dollar for anything but food.

...men in fear and hunger destroy their stomachs in the fight to secure certain food, where men hungering for love destroy everything lovable about them.

Most of us have fond memories of food from our childhood. Whether it was our mom's homemade lasagna or a memorable chocolate birthday cake, food has a way of transporting us back to the past.

I am really good at making Top Ramen. I also love it when my mom makes vegetarian lasagna for me.

I always like to find those little mom-and-pop sandwich places, or diners. Those are my favorite kind of places.

My mom cooked the same food every day - tortillas, beans and meat. If it was enchiladas, it was - tortillas, beans and meat. If it was burritos, it was still - tortillas, beans and meat.

My mom is a really good cook. I didn't get the cooking gene, but she cooks this really amazing dinner every Christmas, and that's always really fun.

I don't think I ate a green vegetable until I was 30. I didn't grow up with a mom who enforced that at all.

My mom's chicken, with rice and gravy was my favorite dish as a kid, and it still is now. That's my favorite meal from her or from anybody. It's a family favorite.

Latin food is my guiltiest pleasure and my demise. My trainer hates when I go home to visit my mom and her cooking.