Quotes About Food

It was frightening, the extent to which a full belly made for a good mood.

BY 5 A.M., Mamá Tita had pancakes and papayas and hot pinole on the table.

Snails were freedom fighters' food; you could harvest them on the run and they'd go dormant and keep fresh in your pockets until you were in the clear to cook. The

No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.

No man is lonely while eating spaghetti: it requires so much attention.

Foraging Oregon covers plants that can be used primarily for food and are common in Oregon

Your show is running late because Keith doesn't want to go on stage until he gets a shepherd's pie.

I can't make you, Rebecca, but you'll probably feel better if you eat.

Whoever put steak and kidneys together in a pie made a serious error in judgment. — Nick Snowbeard

Sex isn't something children should be protected from, Claire. It's like protecting them from good food or music.

Every time you say 'no thank you' to food, you say 'yes please' to skinny.

The doctor simply refused to take pity. And added: when you don't know what to eat make a nice Italian spaghetti.

By the middle of Henry VIII's reign, the white meats — that is, dairy products — were considered common fare and people from all classes would eat meat whenever they could get it.

There's a kind of terrible stress that makes you eat three pieces of coconut cake, but there's an even more terrible kind of stress where you can't bear the thought of eating anything at all" -Autumn

Chowder breathes reassurance. It steams consolation.

Where's the beef?

Fish only have a few seconds of good memory for everything. But to humans they are food for thoughts that make them unforgettable for more than a lifetime.

A cheese may disappoint. It may be dull, it may be naive, it may be oversophisticated. Yet it remains cheese, milk's leap toward immortality.

A cheese may disappoint. It may be dull, it may be naive, it may be oversophisticated. Yet it remains cheese, milk's leap toward immortality.

The tantrums of cloth-headed celluloid idols are deemed fit for grown-up conversation, while silence settles over such a truly important matter as food.

Nobody, and I mean Nobody... puts ketchup on a hot dog.

The pasta was always al dente, an expression which could be pressed into service as the name of a ferocious gangster.

If you ask, "I'm not saying I'll buy this refrigerator, but if I do, when do you think you could deliver it?" he'll say, "When would you like it delivered?" When you reply, "How about early this afternoon?" he'll say, "Why so soon?" At that point one of you will comment, "Because we have about seventy dollars' worth of food spoiling rapidly.

One will starve to death with just as much certainty and much more speedily, if one attempts to live upon foods containing only one or two elements of nutrition, as if one were totally abstaining from food. A diet of white flour and water, or white sugar and water, will result in death much sooner than a diet of water only. If no food is eaten the body feeds upon its own food reserves, but it has no provision for meeting the exigencies created by prolonged subsistence on one-sided diets.