Quotes About Food

I peeled the skin off a grape in slippery little triangles, and I understood then that I would be undressing every item of food I could because my clothes would be staying on.

When there is not enough to eat, people starve to death. It is better to let half of the people die so that the other half can eat their fill.

Like almost all girls I don't know the date of my birth: my parents did not trouble to record the day and the time. I only know the year and the season, and I only know the season because my mother had a great desire for asparagus when she was carrying me and swears that she ate it too green and her bellyache brought on my birth.

If everyone in Christendom ate nothing but fish on Friday, then the fishermen and their children would eat well the rest of the week.

with onions and carrots drawn up like a retinue

First, you're going to have to stop using food for anything other than nutrition. You cannot continue to use food to celebrate, or as a companion, or for entertainment, or comfort. You cannot medicate yourself, your mood, or pain with food.

I've never eaten a taco, and I don't plan to.

HUMMUS AND CRUNCHY CARROTS In a blender or food processor, purée 1/2 cup chickpeas, 2 teaspoons extra-virgin olive oil, 1/2 teaspoon minced garlic, and 1 tablespoon lemon juice. Serve hummus with 1 cup raw baby carrots and 2 rye crisps.

Here they are: Power Proteins Super Starches Chicken breast Oats Tuna (chunk light, canned in water) Brown rice Black beans Corn Prime Produce—Veggies Fit Fats Carrots Avocado Tomatoes Sunflower seeds Mushrooms Cashews Prime Produce-Fruits   Blueberries   Oranges   Grapes

Good grief! Have some bread with your peanut butter! Mother said, watching Caroline make her lunch. You have enough peanut butter on that bread for three sandwiches, Caroline. Pay attention. Dost thou talk to thy queen in such a manner? Caroline asked, raising one eyebrow. I dost, said Mother. And don't forget to pack some carrots and celery, m'lady.

Peter was leaning his elbows on the end of the table, a piece of bread smeared with peanut butter in his hands, chewing wide eyed with his mouth open. Wally tried not to look. Whenever Wally was really hungry at school and didn't think he could hold out until noon, he thought about the way half-chewed bread and peanut butter looked in Peter's mouth, and he wasn't hungry anymore.

L'agriculture moderne a certes résolu les insuffisances en terme quantitatifs, ce qui a permis la sécurité alimentaire, mais au prix d'une insalubrité croissante.

The Zombie Master, a bachelor, had a good store of provisions but evidently survived mainly on those that required least effort to prepare: cheese balls, fried eggs from the friers that nested on the rafters, hot dogs from the dogwood that grew just inside the moat, and shrimp from the shrimp plants in the courtyard.

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

If life doesn't seem livable with the body's nature corrupted, not even with every sort of food and drink and every sort of wealth and every sort of rule, will it then be livable when the nature of that very thing by which we live is confused and corrupted, even if a man does whatever else he might want except that which will rid him of vice and injustice and will enable him to acquire justice and virtue?

Cookery simulates the disguise of medicine, and pretends to know what food is the best for the body; and if the physician and the cook had to enter into a competition in which children were the judges, or men who had no more sense than children, as to which of them best understands the goodness or badness of food, the physician would be starved to death.

We know it to be universally true that every seed and growth, whether vegetable or animal, that the more vigorous it is the more it falls short of its proper perfection when deprived of the food, the place, the season that suits it. For evil is more opposed to the good than the not-good.

No disagreement either from those of us who delight in American deep-dish pies and French tartes and prize the difference, who long for "authentic" foods, however vague we may be on what we mean by "authenticity." In the perceptive words of a great French chef, we eat more myths than calories. We eat, in sum, with our imagination.

Hamburgers! The corner-stone of any nutritious breakfast.

chicken salad.

I always fixed beef for your father. But he only wanted pie.

She reached out one hand, pulled two slices of toast from the toaster, and stacked them on a plate. "Need help?" I asked. "No. Just sit down. Your eggs are ready." She lifted the pot off the stove and started to bring it to the breakfast table. Steam from the pot fogged her glasses.

I have a pot of brussels sprouts boiling on the stove!

You humans, always eating. I'll make you soup. You can eat it while you keep working. Myrnin set aside his book and walked into the back of the lab. Don't use the same beaker you used for poisons! Claire yelled after him. He waved a pale hand. I mean it!