Quotes About Food

How do you make a sausage roll? ... Roll it down a hill!

We stand around the tray. Just staring at it. Forever in awe. The chicken fried steak will be just as she remembered it. The biscuits will flake just like they used to. The pecan pie will be sweet and will take her back to those times she sat at the tables just outside the shack on a summer's day. And for once, she'll have fresh strawberry ice cream to go with it.

In the quiet of the kitchen my mind wanders. Fried chicken and potato salad. What's this man trying to re-create? A picnic? An outing? A meal his grandma made? A chess pie is old school. It's basically a pecan pie without the pecans. Syrupy sweet. I think about the memories he must have about this meal. Innocent. Pure. Happy.

Harlan, Cody, and I stand there and gaze at it all. The glistening fried chicken, the potato salad, and fried okra. The biscuits still steaming in the oven. A ramekin of honey butter and another of ranch dressing set off the meal. The chess pie and the Blue Bell ice cream are just begging to be devoured.

Oh, is that left over from Shine? I do hope we won't have to eat the food you served to a convicted murderer," Whitney says, clutching her pearls. "He was a triple murderer and he ordered fried chicken," I say. Whitney and her Gang of Idiots are actually taken aback. "Even for you, Queenie Wake, that's low," Piggy Peggy says, looking from Whitney to me. Yes, Peggy, you delivered your line perfectly. "You'd know," I say, stepping forward. She flinches.

ginger would have been far more widely used.

Spices were an important part of medieval cookery. We take them for granted, and often taste them ready-mixed in our commercially produced food. The Middle Ages saw them as mysterious and precious.

The principal spice of the Middle Ages was certainly pepper. It had the merit of being light for its value, and easily packed in camel bags and seagoing vessels – an ideal stuff to smuggle, well known to those Luccese merchants. It always found a ready market, since as well as adding a tang to otherwise bland food, it offset the salt which was so widely used to preserve foodstuffs. It had been imported from India to the west for 4,000 years.

Not surprisingly, the kitchen was the most interesting, but only because I discovered a package of Oreos in the cupboard.

Just remember this, Missy, escargot ain't nothin' but snails with their noses stuck in the air.

Like cornbread, barbecue is a food that unifies the vast expanse of the American South, an ever larger portion of the American mainstream.

Socialism, when the last word is said, is merely a new economic and political system whereby more men can get food to eat.

When we live in cities at a fast pace, it is almost impossible not to get disconnected from the natural world. Food is one of the few things in our daily life that can help us strengthen that bond. Maybe we need to remind ourselves that coconut comes from a tree, not from little blue bags in the supermarket.

A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.

Jeffs Bagel Run bagels taste like the definition of what a bagel meant to me growing up."

That cake tasted good. But the cake in the garbage tasted better. It was the best cake I ever ate.

I love men. They Taste like Chicken

He handed her the other half of his candy bar. She stared at it like it was a brick of gold. I'm on a diet. But she took it. A see-food diet, apparently. I see food and I eat it.

As a rule, she ate fairly healthily but all bets were off during times of stress. Proving the point, she'd just polished off an entire bag of pizza rolls by herself and was covered in crumbs and questioning her choices in life.

Make sure to marry a man who puts his pizza rolls into the oven, not the microwave, Laura told her, smiling at Will. He knows good things take a little more time.

Kuchi zamishi is a Japanese saying. It's the act of eating because your mouth is lonely

Jalapeño sky raisins?" "Bees and wasps.

She was going to eat warm, buttered bread and feel better.

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