Quotes About Food

It is smart to eat fish,

Chicken is Good! It tastes like chicken.

You hungry yet? Personally, I could eat this dock without even syrup.

If you have formed the habit of checking on every new diet that comes along, you will find that, mercifully, they all blur together, leaving you with only one definite piece of information: french-fried potatoes are out.

Gracias a Dios por el jamón suave, el pan fragante, el vino fresco! ¡Por la salud del viejo mundo y de aquellos que todavía son felices en él!

She had a heart like a Twinkie, full of oversweet goo, yes, a real junk-food heart.

Ryan and his father obediently headed off. At the bathroom door his father said, "Well, if finicky eaters make poor lovers, I don't know what you got here.

The world is nothing without life, and all that lives takes nourishment.

There are many theories about how tapas came to refer to food. Some believe early tapas were slices of bread or cheese placed on top of drinks.

We have not reached the consensus that to eat is a basic human right. This is an ethical crisis. This is a crisis of faith.

Lydia thanks the girls, and her spoken gratitude feels entirely insufficient, because what she really needs to say is that the food, yes, but also their kindness, their humanity, their very existence, has nourished some withered, essential part of herself.

stack of buckwheat pancakes he set on the nightstand. I reach for the plate instead of the baby. "These are my favorite," I say, stuffing a towering bite into my mouth. "So good." He smiles at me. "Try not to drip food

He says I'm beautiful as a red tomato

I'm probably something like 95% chicken nugget

I love sandwiches. Let's face it, life is better between two pieces of bread.

Please, comrade! I just want to chop him up for the stew!' 'And that's another thing! I'm tired of stew! I want to put him in a crust and bake a light fluffy quiche!' 'QUICHE?! What kind of food is THAT for a monster to eat?!

If we keep him for ourselves, we can do anything we want with him!' 'OH, REALLY?! Does that include baking him in a quiche?!' 'NO, IT DOES NOT INCLUDE THAT! IT INCLUDES EATING HIM RAW!' 'That's too bad. He would've made a fine pastry filling.

Culinary incompetence could explain the first six or seven meals, but more than that had to be culinary malice.

The chef grabs the guy's wife/girlfriend by the hair, bashes her down on the table, and slams the meat cleaver into the back of her neck. I don't think she even ordered a turkey sandwich!

Seriously, though, do you want a beef stick if they have them?

A human being who falls down reminds us of an animal we might have hunted and brought down ourselves. Every sudden fall which arouses laughter does so because it suggests helplessness and reminds us that the fallen can, if we want, be treated as prey. If we went further and actually ate it, we would not laugh. We laugh instead of eating it. Laughter is our physical reaction to the escape of potential food.

The person to whom I am carrying a plate of food is someone whom it is an honor to serve. For he has been invited to eat and drink at the table of a King.

I hate banana bread. It's too suspicious-looking. I always thought the cooked banana looked like insect legs.

The dishes we ate from were not translucent china but, rather, the heavy white plates common in less expensive cafés. Still, the food served on them was prepared by my mother, and I believed then, as I do now, that it makes a difference in taste when one's thoughts and feelings and hands are employed in what one serves.