Quotes About Food

The way you eat is inseparable from your core beliefs about being alive. Your relationship with food is an exact mirror of your feelings about love, fear, anger, meaning and transformation.

You can have a disordered relationship with food, but to have an eating disorder is indicative of a mental illness, which I think needs treatment and recognition in a different way.

Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet

There is simply no room left for 'freedom from the tyranny of government' since city dwellers depend on it for food, power, water, transportation, protection, and welfare. Your right to live where you want, with companions of your choosing, under laws to which you agree, died in the eighteenth century with Captain Mission. Only a miracle or a disaster could restore it.

And then to breakfast withWhat appetite you have.

O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!

Truly, a peck of provender: I could munch your good dry oats. Methinks I have a great desire to a bottle of hay: good hay, sweet hay, hath no fellow.

Who doth ambition shun,And loves to live i' the sun,Seeking the food he eats,And pleas'd with what he gets.

I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit.

Epicurean cooksSharpen with cloyless sauce his appetite.

And men sit down to that nourishment which is called supper.

Things sweet the taste prove in digestion sour.

And homeless near a thousand homes I stood, And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food.

Christ is the bread of life (John 6:35). Whatever we take into us as food will be assimilated into our being. This is very meaningful and significant. God is life to us in the form of food. We need to receive Him by eating Him. Once God enters into us, He becomes the flow of life within us. For proper eating we need food and drink. John 6 covers the bread of life for our eating, and John 7 covers the living water for our drinking.

Whatever satisfies, strengthens, and sustains us is our food. The unique food we take for our sustenance, strength, and satisfaction must be Christ.

We do not need religion, and we do not need regulations and rituals. We need Christ to be our spiritual food.

As the Almighty God, Jesus is high, but when He came to us as food He was lowly. He was a loaf of bread. He was even the crumbs under the table (Matt. 15:21-27). The very Jesus who came to us as life in the form of food was not tall and great; He was small and lowly.

I believe that London is the most exciting food city in Europe.

Everybody has to put purees underneath everything now. It's like people think we need the steak, and then we need some baby food with it.

I grew up in Austria, and for me real comfort food is Wiener Schnitzel. Wiener Schnitzel and mashed potatoes because it reminds me of my youth... It reminds me when I grow up and it feels very comforting.

A lot of restaurants serve good food, but they don't have very good service.

What I don't like is breakfast in the morning. I have a double-espresso cappuccino, but no food.

There's an old joke - um... two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of 'em says, "Boy, the food at this place is really terrible." The other one says, "Yeah, I know; and such small portions." Well, that's essentially how I feel about life - full of loneliness, and misery, and suffering, and unhappiness, and it's all over much too quickly.

I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead — not sick, not wounded — dead.