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Quotes About Food

But the beans—ah, the beans. And the pickles—oh, the pickles. And the grapefruit juice, and the coffee, and the Dr. Jekyllish formulation of all that Austin had so cavalierly tossed into his maw left no doubt in his head that nature was not only calling—she was screaming bloody murder.
~ Unknown
Es gibt keine passenden Wörter fürs Hungerleiden. Ich muss dem Hunger heute noch zeigen, dass ich ihm entkommen bin. Ich esse buchstäblich das Leben selbst, seit ich nicht mehr hungern muss. Ich bin eingesperrt in den Geschmack des Essens, wenn ich esse. Ich esse seit meiner Heimkehr aus dem Lager, seit sechzig Jahren, gegen das Verhungern.
~ Herta Muller
To me, food is as much about the moment, the occasion, the location and the company as it is about the taste.
~ Heston Blumenthal
You think about some of the most memorable meals you've ever had the food will be good but it will often be about locating a mental memory and taste is inexorably linked to all the other senses and memory, so ultimately it is all about taste.
~ Heston Blumenthal
I was born in the '60s and grew up in the '70s - not exactly the best decade for food in British history. It was horrendous. It was a time when, as a nation, we excelled in art and music and acting and photography and fashion - all creative skills... all apart from cooking.
~ Heston Blumenthal
You mustn't stand about. Come home with me to dinner.' 'No.' More shakes his head. 'I would rather be blown around on the river and go home hungry. If I could trust you only to put food in my mouth – but you will put words into it.
~ Hilary Mantel
Full bellies breed gentle manners. A pinch of famine makes monsters.(Bringing up the bodies,pg 36)
~ Hilary Mantel
If what you buy is good, what you make will be good regardless of the presentation. We may eat with our eyes, but we enjoy with our taste buds.
~ Unknown
Do you remember how many breads you have eaten in your life?
~ Unknown
Una dieta que consista principalmente en alimentos derivados de animales, como carne, leche y otros productos lácteos, genera grandes cantidades de proteína defectuosa o basura.
~ Unknown
Creo que es necesario para nosotros como seres humanos aprender más de la naturaleza y, con gran humildad, regresar a los fundamentos básicos de los alimentos.
~ Unknown
La leche que contiene grasa oxidada entonces se pasteuriza a altas temperaturas, superiores a los 100 ºC. Las enzimas son sensibles al calor y comienzan a destruirse a los 93 ºC. Es decir, la leche que se vende en las tiendas no sólo carece de las preciadas enzimas, sino que la grasa está oxidada y la calidad de las proteínas cambia debido a las altas temperaturas. En cierto sentido, la leche es el peor tipo de alimento.
~ Unknown
At this point Squadron Leader Yamaguchi suddenly smiled. "Anyway," he said, "Lubang is a very good island. There aren't many like it anymore. There's always plenty to eat there, Onoda. At least you don't have to worry about that.
~ Hiroo Onoda
So are you saying you've weaponized the food?
~ Unknown
CALL REMOVED A small circle of oily pepperoni from his slice of pizza and slid his hand under the table. Immediately, he felt a wash of Havoc's wet tongue as the Chaos-ridden wolf inhaled the food.
~ Holly Black
Locke craves dramatic experiences. And as Master of Revels, he can create these- I don't even know what to call them- stories. He doesn't so much think of a party as food and drinks and music, but rather a dynamic that might create conflict.
~ Holly Black
I love chicken fingers, I love French fries. I love desserts. I'm not just into dessert or just into savoury food. I love it all. I'm a pig. I love food. So it takes a lot of discipline to eat healthy.
~ Holly Madison
I like food too much to go on some crazy diet. French fries are my favorite downfall.
~ Holly Madison
I'd be vegetarian if bacon grew on trees
~ Homer Simpson
And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.
~ Honore de Balzac
Joy always overcooked chicken. She had a terror of salmonella […] She put her fingertips to her hairline. She was sweating. Food poisoning? Savannah's roast chicken had been so wonderfully tender! Was this the price you had to pay for tender chicken? It was too high a price!
~ Liane Moriarty
Debbie served them home-made Anzac biscuits.
~ Liane Moriarty
that expensive butcher in the arcade on the way home from the
~ Liane Moriarty
Eat when you're hungry. That's a privilege, you know, to eat when you're hungry, when there are people starving in this world.
~ Liane Moriarty