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Quotes About Food

Food was a constant topic of conversation in our household.
~ Paul Lynde
Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness.
~ Ted Allen
Dine we must and we may as well dine elegantly as well as wholesomely.
~ Isabella Beeton
And you stagger down to break your fast. Greasy bacon and lacquered eggs And coffee composed of frigid dregs.
~ Ogden Nash
In 2008, a year of supposed 'food crisis', we grew enough food to feed 11 billion people. Most of it was not eaten by humans as food, however.
~ Michael Pollan
We should begin at the very root from which we spring, we should effect a radical reform in the character of the food.
~ Nikola Tesla
Shake the hand that feeds you.
~ Michael Pollan
I've always loved food too much to be a model.
~ Jennifer Lawrence
Many things made me become a vegetarian, among them the higher food yield as a solution to world hunger.
~ John Denver
Food made by hand is an act of defiance and runs contrary to everything in our modernity. Find it; eat it; it will go. It has been around for millennia. Now it is evanescent, like a season.
~ Bill Buford
A country like America has twice as much food on its shop shelves and in its restaurants than is actually required to feed the American people.
~ Tristram Stuart
How can a nation be called great if its bread tastes like kleenex?
~ Julia Child
Why don't you like the foods I like?" he asks sometimes. "Why don't you like the foods I make?" I answer.
~ Unknown
Some people have food, but no appetite; others have an appetite, but no food. I have both. The Lord be praised.
~ Oliver Cromwell
Always acknowledge your position in the food chain... They eat because you grow the food.
~ Wangechi Mutu
A cat cares for you only as a source of food, security and a place in the sun.
~ Charles Horton Cooley
Fondue is not a good date food. You end up with cheese dripping down your face.
~ James Corden
Nothing spoils lunch any quicker than a rogue meatball rampaging through your spaghetti.
~ Jim Davis
But I, when I undress me Each night, upon my knees Will ask the Lord to bless me With apple-pie and cheese.
~ Eugene Field
We know that the body needs bread, therefore we seek for bread for it: so must we seek for the food of the soul.
~ Lancelot Andrewes
I believe food is the most brilliant invention ever.
~ Helena Christensen
Europe was a horrible place. There was nothing on TV. The food was terrible. And they don't even have ice. Who doesn't have ice?
~ Johnny Ramone
I'm a big buffet dude, or I'm a big cheap-food-and-order-more-when-I-need-it dude.
~ Patrice O'Neal
I think every culture is passionate about food; some are just passionate about food and the food is shitty.
~ Jonathan Gold