Quotes About Food

As Nebuchadnezzar is reported to have said of his vegetarian diet, it may have been wholesome, but it was not good.

At seven-ten we sat down to a breakfast of twelve-grain cereal, a kind of oatmeal glop that Barbara had given my mother. The stuff wasn't too bad once you quit expecting it to have any taste.

Vinimos aquí a comer. Y nos dirán: y porqué no a pensar, a filosofar, a estudiar? Todo eso lo hacemos y lo hicimos. Pero lo callamos.

Potato salad in the South is nothing less than the principal smuggler of cholesterol into the festive, careless heart. It is pure poison beneath the facade of bland puritan propriety. It is the food of choice at any food banquet of smiling relatives who celebrate tacitly among themselves the dark twining of two of their promising youth.

Foods are like men: some are good, some are bad, and some are okay only in small doses. But most should be tried at least once.

Crows are ferociously intelligent birds. I used to watch them gather as the men set off for another day of war. Drums, pipes, trumpets, the rhythmical pounding of swords on shields—to the fighters, this music meant honour, glory, courage, comradeship…To the crows, it only ever meant food.

There are no ideas in the South, just barbecue.

A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.

The scampi tasted sweet like a lobster fed only on honey and it cut into the deep undertone of flavor deposited on the taste buds by the truffles.

American teachers are all trained to think poor; we love conferences and book fairs with hospitality suites, expenses paid and banquets of rubbery chicken, sweet French dressing, and unspeakable peas

Every time I eat grits, it becomes perfectly clear to me why the South lost the war.

The bell announced that there was food on the table and a women in the kitchen.

Chapter 2 The Big Woods Back in Wisconsin, Laura looked forward to a treat that came just once a year: roasted pig tail!

But I am tremendously interested in what religion does for me, just as I am interested in what electricity and good food and water do for me.

For example, you have a cold now; its physical symptoms tell you when your body needs to rebalance itself, to restore its proper relationship with sunlight, fresh air, simple food. Just so, stressful thoughts reflect a conflict with reality. Stress happens when the mind resists what is.

The final payment for America's cheap food of the last century is still outstanding.

I'm hungry, Raul," she said from the head of the stairs. "Want to go down and see what this old ship's galley can whomp up for lunch?

If we had some cheese, we could have a ham-and-cheese sandwich," replies Father Captain de Soya, "if we had some ham.

I would have thought your Hegemony was far beyond a petroleum economy." I laughed and locked the wheel in. "Nobody gets beyond a petroleum economy. Not while there's petroleum there. We don't burn it, if that's what you mean. But it's still essential for the production of plastics, synthetics, food base, and keroids. Two hundred billion people use a lot of plastic." "And Maui-Covenant has oil?

But eating carbohydrates is like eating hungry pills.

we baked all our own bread;

Chestnuts in stuffing tastes like someone chewed up a tree branch and then French-kissed it into your mouth.

Fucking delish, I don't care if it's a faggy word, oops, sorry, no offense, sorry again. [i]Delish! Criminy![/i] This is like a cookie, it tastes like a cookie having sex with a doughnut.

It has happened that a species has tried to live in violation of the Law of Limited Competition. Or rather it has happened one time, in one human culture—ours. That's what our agricultural revolution is all about. That's the whole point of totalitarian agriculture: We hunt our competitors down, we destroy their food, and we deny them access to food. That's what makes it totalitarian.