Quotes About Food

How isolating that must be, she thought. But we all seek solace somewhere. Some in friendships and family and beliefs. Some in drugs, in a bottle, in food or gambling or good deeds. And some in casual sex. It masqueraded as human contact, but was closer to loathing than liking. And certainly wasn't love. On

Armand pushed his omelette away after one bite. It was moist, with aged Comté cheese and tarragon. Just as he remembered it. Just as he liked it. But not today.

But we all seek solace somewhere. Some in friendships and family and beliefs. Some in drugs, in a bottle, in food or gambling or good deeds. And some in casual sex. It masqueraded as human contact, but was closer to loathing than liking. And certainly wasn't love.

Invite them back if you'd like," she called after him. "There's plenty." She was four courses upset and considering an amuse-bouche.

Beauvoir reported first between bites of a ham sandwich, made with thick-sliced ham carved from what must have been a maple-cured roast, with honey-mustard sauce and slabs of aged cheddar on a fresh croissant.

Gamache bit into a grilled chicken and roasted vegetable baguette and decided he was going to enjoy mealtimes in this place.

pain aux raisins escargot

Olivier was holding a tray of mille feuilles, meringues, slices of pies and little custard tarts with glazed fruit on top. He chose one covered in tiny wild blueberries.

Between them on the table sat a basket of steaming rolls and a small dish of butter balls.

Does it matter that the sausages are local? I'm just going to eat them, not make friends and go to the cinema with them.

Senator John Kennedy from Louisiana describes Democrats as the "well intended arugula and tofu crowd."

Never eat Mexican food east of Mississippi or north of Dallas.

Water cress. I'd just as soon eat my way across a front lawn.

We know that many conditions must be satisfied If a species is to last and reproduce itself: First there must be food for it, and then a channel Through which the genetic particles in the limbs Can find a way out; and the female must fit the male; There must be organs which can give mutual pleasure.

Ming Dynasty porcelain, Mao jackets, cheap toys and electrical goods, everything, though not pot-stickers, or crispy duck and pancakes and sweet and sour pork and fortune cookies, the fact that she never ate her fortune cookie though, just opened it to see her fortune.

the fact that every few years they decide noodles are fatal, but I don't buy that, the fact that noodles seem pretty innocent to me, overall, and handy with kids

Food is central to travelling and is a vivid entryway into another culture, but we do not have to literally leave home to "travel". Movies, books, postcards, memories all take us, emotionally if not physically, to other places.

Man is what he eats.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

I can't watch someone cook without helping. It's a genetic abnormality.

If someone else takes a bite of my food, I have to cut off the part that his/her saliva has touched before I can eat any more of it.

When my mother was in the hospital," I say, "her rabbi told her a story. In Heaven and Hell, people sit at banquet tables filled with amazing food, but no one can bend their elbows. In Hell, everyone starves because they can't feed themselves. In Heaven, everyone's stuffed, because they don't have to bend their arms to feed each other.

Do you even know what a salad is?" "Sure," Jordan said, smiling. "It's that stuff they invented a sneeze-guard for.

Is there any place on earth that smells better than a Laundromat? It's like a rainy Sunday when you don't have to get out from under your covers, or like lying back on the grass your father's just mowed--comfort food for your nose.