Quotes About Food

Canned food is a perversion, Ignatius said. I suspect that it is ultimately very damaging to the soul.

If you have a pizza with radius z and thickness a, its volume is pi*z*z*a.

Kummerspeck ("grief bacon") is German for the weight put on from eating too much when feeling sorry for yourself.

Where does Chicken Tikka Masala come from? Glasgow.

Meat isn't murder, it's delicious.

To sell war bonds, they had already organized nearly the entire city, all the way down to the level of each block, making each residential block the responsibility of "a logical leader no matter what her nationality"—i.e., an Irishwoman in an Irish neighborhood, an African American woman in an African American neighborhood, and so on. They intended to use that same organization now to distribute everything from medical care to food.

I'm an emotional eater. When I get upset, my diet goes out the window.

In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn.

Eating is an environmental act.

Global food insecurity is increasing...the slim excess of growth in food production over population is narrowing.

Every decision we make - when we choose a vehicle, when we pump gas into that vehicle, when we order food - is not just a personal lifestyle choice. It's an environmental and moral choice.

I'll never forget my first experience of swede. It was at school and I thought I was getting mashed potato. I've never got over it.

The experience of being cared for is profound, and it nourishes the soul as much as the food does the body.

I think that there is a role for food to be art; and when food is art, it can have drama, it can have spectacle, it can be theatrical. It can be this amazing experience.

Why is it when we have a bad experience with a product, we assume it is us, but a bad experience with food, we blame the food?!

A full stomach praises Lent.

We need bees to survive.

I just hope we someday live in a world where education and food is available for everyone out there where no one starve to death, each and everyone has the access to basic amenities and there is peace.

Prayer is the food of life that will fill you when there's nothing left.

Poverty should not accumulate to just absence of food: Sometimes its the absence of our ability to ignore other irrelevant desires.

My Easter smells are the cinnamon and mixed spices in the hot cross buns, and the rosemary and mint sauce with the roast lamb. The grassy tang of rhubarb and real muddy wet grass from the egg rolling. And of course, lots and lots of milk chocolate. My scents for Easter are: Angel by Thierry Mugler Anima Dulcis by Arquiste Musc Maori by Parfumerie Générale Blue North by Agonist Opium by Yves Saint Laurent English Pear & Freesia by Jo Malone London La Tulipe by Byredo

The Irish are good in a crisis, Michael Francis thinks, as he eases back the clingfilm on a tray of sandwiches his aunt Bridie has left in the kitchen. They know what to do, what traditions must be observed; they bring food, casseroles, pies, they dole out tea. They know how to discuss bad news: in murmurs, with shakes of the head, their accents wrapping themselves around the syllables of misfortune. A

My mom was a great cook and great baker all her life.

They had nationalities even: Thai eggplant, Chinese eggplant, Italian eggplant. The United Nations of eggplants terrified me because I knew the oblong purple vegetable as baingan, brinjal in English, and I could cook it in five different ways. Would this exotic brinjal still yield to my hands?