Quotes About Food

Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers and the extermination camps, the same thing as blockades and the reduction of countries to famine, the same thing as the manufacture of hydrogen bombs.

As James U. McNeal, a professor of marketing at Texas A&M University, puts it, "75 percent of spontaneous food purchases can be traced to a nagging child. And one out of two mothers will buy a food simply because her child requests it. To trigger desire in a child is to trigger desire in the whole family.

de-couple the animals themselves from the products on sale. This is a rule of thumb in the United States, but nothing you would ever see in Europe. Europeans have known extensive food shortages, and rationing, and Americans, fortunately, never have. When US tourists visit a marche or charcuterie in France, many are startled and even repulsed by the displays of meat and fowl

Ast?zi armele sunt diluate într-un aer È™i o mâncare care otr?vesc. Puterea nu mai are nevoie de puÈ™ti, de lag?re È™i de sârm? ghimpata, nici de tancuri, totalitarismul este diluat în atmosfera È™i în materia gândirii noastre

The fact that food plays such an important part in my films has everything to do with my family.

then I'd worry that my coffee would be muddy and my croissants burnt and he'd only give me the baguettes with the misshaped ends. Life wouldn't be worth living.

peeled cucumber, one red and one yellow pepper and a half kilo of ripe plum tomatoes went into the blender with five tablespoons of olive oil, two glasses of Bergerac Sec white wine and a glass of water. He added salt, pepper, three well-chopped cloves of garlic

As long as the food is well prepared and not overdone, I think it tastes good. It doesn't matter if it's Chinese, Japanese, anything.

So when I do Chinese cooking, I mix everything together, then the kids have to eat their vegetables. They won't have the patience to pick them out.

I won't eat anything that has intelligent life, but I'd gladly eat a network executive or a politician.

THE PUZZLE of cannibalism concerns the socially sanctioned con­ sumption of human flesh when other foods are available.

la presión demográfica no es un factor estático, sino un proceso de deterioro progresivo de la balanza entre el esfuerzo humano en la producción de alimentos y la satisfacción de necesidades, por una parte, y el resultado de tal esfuerzo, por otra.

From antiquity to modern times, virtually every society that has been organized as a state has condemned the consumption of human flesh more forcefully than it has condemned the consumption of any other kind of animal food.

Hindus and Westerners alike see in the meat-eating taboos of India a triumph of morals over appetite. This is a dangerous misrepresentation of cultural processes. Hindu vegetarianism was a victory not of spirit over matter but of reproductive over productive forces.

En una sociedad cuyo principal problema de nutrición es la obesidad, se olvida fácilmente lo horrible que puede ser para el organismo humano la falta de comida y de bebida.

Puesto que la carne es el alimento más prestigioso y universalmente deseado por los seres humanos, es también el alimento más prestigioso y universalmente deseado por los dioses.

Rome was the only place in the ancient Mediterranean where the state took responsibility for the regular basic food supplies of its citizens.

De dragul iubirii, m?nânci tot felul de chestii pe care nu le supor?i.

Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.

He'd become The Guardian, when all he really was, was a half-rabid food driven by vengeance and hate.

A day out-of-doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music -- that would be rest.

It's easy to halve the potato where there's love.

If music be the food of love, play on.

Even though I've been married for eight years, I do separate my food in the refrigerator from my wife's. I put labels on it that say 'This is Will's leftover chicken' or whatever. And if you touch it, yeah, I get livid.