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Quotes About Food

I'd rather eat nothing than eat a carrot.
~ Marian Keyes
NEVER TRUST A MAN WHO DOESN'T COOK
~ Marianne Wiggins
I bought a talking refrigerator that said "Oink" every time I opened the door. It made me hungry for pork chops.
~ Unknown
For cooking always choose a "pie pumpkin" or "sugar pumpkin." They have much better flavor than those giant pumpkins you turn into a jack-o-lantern.
~ Unknown
For me, first, it's finding quiet in my life - and I do that through yoga and meditation. It's also been a matter of changing the way I eat, because I think what we eat can inform who we are food is a chemical and a drug to a certain extent.
~ Mariel Hemingway
We tend to connect bad food and bad habits with romance and sex.
~ Marilu Henner
But she continued to wonder what the fish tasted like, so brilliant and vivid pink. Would it taste pink?
~ Marilyn French
One graduate student told me, "When the Apocalypse comes, you want to know an archaeologist, because we know how to make fire, catch food, and create hill forts," and I promptly added her to my address book. Knows how to make hill forts—who can say when that will come in handy?
~ Marilyn Johnson
Working with food was fraught with anxiety when I was a girl. Like all farmers, we were at the mercy of the weather, and we lived in fear of crop failure.
~ Bobbie Ann Mason
Accidentally consumed five biscuits when I wasn't paying attention. Those biscuits are wily fellows - they leap in like sugary ninjas
~ Charles Dickens
I tried every diet in the book. I tried some that weren't in the book. I tried eating the book. It tasted better than most of the diets.
~ Dolly Parton
If you are surprised at the number of our maladies, count our cooks.
~ Seneca the Younger
he who feeds you, controls you
~ Thomas Sankara
Real food doesn't have ingredients, real food is ingredients.
~ Jamie Oliver
Starvation is the characteristic of some people not having enough food to eat. It is not the characteristic of there being not enough food to eat.
~ Amartya Sen
Without butter, without eggs, there is no reason to come to France.
~ Paul Bocuse
Noodles are not only amusing but delicious.
~ Julia Child
I teach self-reliance, the world's most subversive practice. I teach people how to grow their own food, which is shockingly subversive. So, yes, it's seditious. But it's peaceful sedition.
~ Bill Mollison
I wish for everyone to help create a strong, sustainable movement to educate every child about food, inspire families to cook again and empower people everywhere to fight obesity.
~ Jamie Oliver
Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.
~ Sophia Loren
If the divine creator has taken pains to give us delicious and exquisite things to eat, the least we can do is prepare them well and serve them with ceremony.
~ Fernand Point
A wonderful bird is a pelican, His bill will hold more than his belican. He can take in his beak Food enough for a week; But I'm damned if I see how the helican.
~ Unknown
Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.
~ Samuel Johnson
We're only truly secure when we can look out our kitchen window and see our food growing and our friends working nearby.
~ Bill Mollison