Quotes About Food

Talk of joy there may be things better than beef stew and baked potatoes and home-made bread -- there may be.

Wonderful, because life gained the ability to harvest sunlight for energy. What a fantastic breakthrough! Earth's biosphere learned to plug into the best power source the universe has to offer, tapping a nearby star to manufacture food from light.

They cut the menu from twenty-five items to nine, featuring hamburgers and cheeseburgers, and they made the burgers a little smaller—ten hamburgers from one pound of meat instead of eight.

As he found beauty in the hamburger, he thought hot dogs unattractive—both aesthetically and commercially.

It requires a certain kind of mind to see the beauty in a hamburger bun.

Our senses inform us of the colour, weight, and consistence of bread; but neither sense nor reason can ever inform us of those qualities which fit it for the nourishment and support of a human body.

On average, dopamine receptor density is reduced in the VTA target regions of obese subjects as compared with those lean subjects (a characteristic that can be measured in a brain scanner). But the key question remains: Do obese individuals show reduced dopaminergic activation of VTA target areas in response to food? Is a blunted pleasure response to food involved in obesity?

Of course, one of the main legitimate functions of thought has always been to help provide security, guaranteeing shelter and food for instance. However, this function went wrong when the principle source of insecurity came to be the operation of thought itself.

When it comes to food, we are, in essence, following an eating script that has been written into the circuits of our brains.

Food-- like sex, politics, and religion-- is an intensely personal, emotional, and complicated subject.

More and more surveys in the US are indicating a change in values taking place among consumers, who become more concerned about quality of life, food, health and the environment.

He went into the kitchen where he made himself two sandwiches with cheddar and prosciutto and a bowl of yoghurt and muesli.

CAKE AUX LARDONS ET FROMAGE BLEU

crêpe is made from white flour only. If buckwheat is used, it's usually called a galette, and

crêpe de sarrasin. Confusingly, sometimes buckwheat (sarrasin) is called blé noir, so if you ask for a crêpe de blé noir, they'll understand perfectly what you're talking about.

Charantais melons

never lop off the pointy nez, the "nose," of the cheese. This is considered terribly rude and arrogant.

the Marché d'Aligre, which I think is the most exciting market in Paris.

Da Rosa for pots of Christine Ferber's confitures and oval pats of handmade butter from Jean-Yves Bordier. She must

On the rue Rambuteau, a street that cuts through the Marais, is Pain de Sucre. It's not a drugstore, but arguably

As soon as I got the baguette outside, I'd pinch off the crusty end—le quignon

croissant ordinaire, made with margarine, rather than a croissant au beurre.

You can't eat tomatoes because they're tainted with deadly salmonella. First there was tainted lettuce. Now, tainted tomatoes. Who would have thought that the healthiest part of a B.L.T. would be the bacon?

The less said about the things Steve ate for breakfast the better, though I will mention that the food did not want to be eaten, and Steve had to remove the singers before he could pop the things in his mouth.