Quotes About Food

Food has been my career, my hobby, and, it must be said, my escape.

I am not getting into the rarebit versus rabbit argument. Whatever you call it, it is still cheese on toast.

Nichts ist so nützlich und vielseitig wie ein kaltes Brathühnchen.

A casserole of oxtail and prunes. This gives a perfect quantity for two. I would have done the recipe for four, but can't imagine ever getting four oxtail-loving people around the table at the same time.

This [waxed paper] is the paper that is perfect for keeping air-dried hams fresh. You could use cling film but it often causes the ham to sweat, and is rather wasteful. I have also reached the age where I can no longer find the end of the roll. Ditto sellotape. Ditto bloody everything.

There is a bit of a scrum at the salad stall as fifteen Guardian readers all try to get at the wild rocket at once. We might have a Zen-like appreciation of a single, perfect organic onion, but it makes us no less capable of elbowing a fellow shopper in the ribs when we have to. This is food after all, and we are happy to fight for it if needs be.

In England and America people tend to graze all day long, but I think it's such a waste to be constantly picking at food because you then can't enjoy a proper full meal when the time comes.

I don't believe you can ever really cook unless you love eating.

I despair of the term 'clean eating'...it necessarily implies that any other form of eating – and consequently the eater of it – is dirty or impure and thus bad.

Don't you have a machine that puts food into the mouth and pushes it down?

This police commissary was a great patron of all the arts and industries; but what he liked above everything else was a cheque. "That's the thing," he used to say, "to which it is not easy to find an equivalent; it requires no food, it does not take up much room, it stays in one's pocket, and if it falls, it is not broken.

I tell you straight that I would not eat such nastiness, even had I made it myself. Sugar a frog as much as you like, but never shall it pass MY lips. Nor would I swallow an oyster, for I know only too well what an oyster may resemble. But have some mutton, friend Chichikov. It is shoulder of mutton, and very different stuff from the mutton which they cook in noble kitchens — mutton which has been kicking about the market-place four days or more.

I torture people in my own way. La Casita de Fuego has the hottest Mexican Food in Houston. Jalapeño peppers are a demon's tool. But the humans keep coming back." Celia shook her head at the wonder of it all. " Who pays to have their stomach lining burned away?

Civilization depends on our expanding ability to produce food efficiently, which has markedly accelerated thanks to science and technology.

I'll have what she's having.

I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regretted most of them, but never the potatoes that went with them.

I don't think any day is worth living without thinking about what you're going to eat next at all times.

Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world.

Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry.

Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability to ensure his food supply.

Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind.

Without food, man can live at most but a few weeks without it, all other components of social justice are meaningless.

I am but one member of a vast team made up of many organizations, officials, thousands of scientists, and millions of farmers - mostly small and humble - who for many years have been fighting a quiet, oftentimes losing war on the food production front.

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