Quotes About Food

Distracted by emotion, she was drying her eyes with a slice of bread.

she spilt food with abandon, chewed with her mouth open as often as not, and held her utensils like shovels.

grilled hot dogs, hamburgers and vegetables; melted cheese; tomato sauce; garlic; sausage; fried fish; baked pies; cinnamon and sugar; apple tarts; and on and on.

A person needs a great deal of energy to stay awake all the time, and thus a great deal of food.

In the vocabulary of ecology there is a term for this type of human activity: "fishing down the food web." With the apex predator out of the way, species that are lower on the pyramid explode in abundance and become the new human harvest. It's a nearly universal phenomenon in the sea.

As far as luxury goes, about the only thing I do is... I go first class all the way. I live on the road, so when I'm out there, I'm getting the nice hotel suite, I'm getting the luxury car, I'm eating the good food, and I make sure I take care of myself on the road.

I love potatoes - they're my favorite food.

We, the people, do have the power to stop [the] tragic waste of resources if we regard it as socially unacceptable to waste food.

A country like America has twice as much food on its shop shelves and in its restaurants than is actually required to feed the American people.

So what were you [Sonea] and Dorrien discussing before?' Akkarin asked. She turned to regard him. 'Discussing?' 'Outside the farmhouse when I was buying the food.' 'Oh. Then. Nothing.' He smiled and nodded. 'Nothing. Amazing subject, that one. Produces such fascinating reactions in people.

Everyone stop moving!" he bellowed. "Especially you, chickens! CHICKENS, GIVE UP! WE'RE GOING TO EAT YOU! THERE'S NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT! STOP RUNNING AWAY RIGHT NOW!

Nope," Clay said. "We're free now. I'm only going to eat what I want to eat from now on." As long as it's slow enough for me to catch it, he thought ruefully.

Think about cows think about cows think about delicious fat cows. . . .

One of her daughters sneezed, someone alert the chefs we need a cake! It's kind of exhausting.

uno sonno la patata.

How much better a man feels when he is mixed with halibut and leg of mutton and roebuck

for Captain Aubrey, as for the rest of brute creation, there were only two kinds of birds, the edible and the inedible.

Wittles is up' said Killick

A virtuous esculent!

Please tell the Senhor that I have never eaten better porco in my life,' said Jack, holding up a bare white bone. Jack had a variety of little imbecilities, but none irritated Stephen more than his way of tossing in the odd word or two of a foreign language.

What are bashed neeps? Neeps hackit with balmagowry.

They ate an acceptable turbot – acceptable when the flour-and-water paste had been scraped off him – and then the steward brought in a ham. It was a ham that could only have come from a hog with a long-borne crippling disease, the sort of ham that is reserved for officers who buy their own provisions; and only a man versed in morbid anatomy could have carved it handsomely.

Ironskin will truly buy food with money? she said, incredulous. Of course. I don't steal, Sturm said. You have much money? Not so much, he said. I'm not rich. That I figure. Rich man always steal, Tervy said.

It would be wonderful if all the salmon we eat could be wild. But as one marine ecologist said to me recently, to continue to eat large wild fish at the rate we've been eating them we would need four or five oceans to support the crrent human population.