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Quotes About Food

When you are faced with food that has been sterilized, fumigated, hydrogenated, hydrolyzed, homogenized, colored, bleached, puffed, exploded, defatted, degermed, texturized, or if you don't know what has been done to it, the safest rule is not to eat it.
~ Helen Nearing
Life has changed a lot, you know. You didn't used to get all this food inside food inside food when I was a girl. The other day I was eating a mushroom and found it had been stuffed with prawns. I've got so many misgivings over this craze, Boy. It's flying in the face of nature.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
It seemed that every time Miranda looked at Eliot he had some of that bread in his mouth—with Luc's champagne marmalade, or mackerel, or honey, or butter.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
Life has changed a lot, you know. You didn't used to get all this food inside food inside food when I was a girl. The other day I was eating a mushroom and found it had been stuffed with prawns. I've got so many misgivings over this crazy, Boy. It's flying in the face of nature. A mushroom is a woodland fungus and a prawn comes from the sea. People have got no business stuffing one inside the other.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
Life has changed a lot, you know. You didn't used to get all this food inside food inside food when I was a girl. The other day I was eating a mushroom and found it had been stuffed with prawns. I've got so many misgivings over this craze, Boy. It's flying in the face of nature. A mushroom is a woodland fungus and a prawn comes from the sea. People have got no business stuffing one inside the other.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
Being too thin isn't particularly desirable here. Women eat.
~ Helen Russell
smushi' – a combination of the famous Danish smørrebrød open sandwiches and sushi
~ Helen Russell
I am a serious food lover and Peruvian cuisine is one of the best in the world.
~ Helena Christensen
I believe food is the most brilliant invention ever.
~ Helena Christensen
He could inhale a dozen pierogi in less than sixty seconds.
~ Helene Stapinski
A baby-sitter is a teenager who gets two dollars an hour to eat five dollars' worth of your food.
~ Henny Youngman
My wife is a light eater ... as soon as it's light, she starts to eat.
~ Henny Youngman
In a state of war, one is always waiting. We have become waiting-machines. For the moment it is food we are waiting for. Then it will be the post. But each in its turn. When we have done with dinner we will think about the letters. After that, we shall set ourselves to wait for something else.
~ Henri Barbusse
They take their pride in making their dinner cost much; I take my pride in making my dinner cost little
~ Henry David Thoreau
When mighty roast beef was the Englishman's food It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood-- Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good. Oh! the roast beef of England. And Old England's roast beef.
~ Henry Fielding
Oh, the roast beef of England,And old England's roast beef!
~ Henry Fielding
together they breakfasted on 'Venison and Chockalatte'
~ Henry Hitchings
Johnson loathed cucumbers: he held with the old-fashioned view that 'a cucumber should be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out, as good for nothing'. Boiled
~ Henry Hitchings
Oregano is the spice of life.
~ Henry J. Tillman
Russia will occupy most of the good food lands of central Europe while we have the industrial portions. We must find some way of persuading Russia to play ball.
~ Henry L. Stimson
No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
My wife dresses to kill. She cooks the same way.
~ Henry Youngman
His director told him, as material food was necessary for the body life, spiritual food is necessary for spiritual life. This was result of his consciousness of humility, certainty that whatever he had to do was right.
~ Leo Tolstoy
In the morning we received some very thin coffee. For lunch we had potato soup with a few pieces of meat in it, in the evening we had a very thin meat soup with some potatoes in it.
~ Leon Askin