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Quotes About Food

crust that's shared is finer food / Than banquets served in solitude.
~ Elizabeth Berg
I made him ricotta pancakes with pecan syrup for breakfast. And he ate them, knowing he'd be dumping me right afterward. What kind of person does that?
~ Elizabeth Berg
Please go to this pizzeria. Order the margherita pizza with double mozzarella. If you do not eat this pizza when you are in Naples, please lie to me and tell me that you did.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
You don't like it? asked Luca, who loves this stuff. I bet Gandhi never ate lamb intestines in his life, I said. He could have. No, he couldn't have, Luca. Gandhi was a vegetarian. But vegetarians CAN eat this, Luca insisted. Because intestines aren't even meat, Liz. They're just shit.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
But vegetarians can eat this...Because intestines aren't even meat, Liz. They're just shit.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
I always thought we only had two choices in our lives when it came to pizza crust—thin and crispy, or thick and doughy. How was I to have known there could be a crust in this world that was thin and doughy? Holy of holies! Thin, doughy, strong, gummy, yummy, chewy, salty pizza paradise.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
The way the Balinese see it, God takes what belongs to God—the gesture—while man takes what belongs to man—the food itself.)
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Franza o Spagna, purchè se magna," which means, in dialect, "France or Spain, as long as I can eat.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
This food won't be wasted; after the offering ceremony, Balinese families are always allowed to eat their own donations to the gods, since the offering is more metaphysical than literal. The way the Balinese see it, God takes what belongs to God - the gesture - while man takes what belongs to man - the food itself.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
I had to do something about my longing, so I got up, went to the kitchen in my nightgown, peeled a pound of potatoes, boiled them up, sliced them, fried them in butter, salted them generously and ate every bite of them—asking my body the whole while if it would please accept the satisfaction of a pound of fried potatoes in lieu of the fulfillment of lovemaking.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
sabe dónde hay que comer en Roma, incluyendo una gelateria donde dan helado de pastel de arroz (y si no es eso lo que comen en el cielo, pues mejor no ir).
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Humanity can be roughly divided into three sorts of people - those who find comfort in literature, those who find comfort in personal adornment, and those who find comfort in food;
~ Elizabeth Goudge
Temperance pursed her lips, her eyes firmly fixed on the growing mound of chopped turnip roots. "Do you think anyone really likes turnips?" "Temperance…" Temperance poked the tip of her knife into a white cube and held it up. "They are very filling, of course, but really, when was the last time you heard someone say, 'Oh, I'm so very fond of turnips'?
~ Elizabeth Hoyt
Indio started forward and took the big man's hand as naturally as he'd taken his mother's. "Come on! Maude's making roast chicken and there'll be gravy and dumplings.
~ Elizabeth Hoyt
Then he dived back into the storage compartment and came back up with a hamper containing a small bottle of milk for the tea, a basket of peeled hard-boiled eggs, ham sliced so thin it was nearly transparent, crumbling sharp cheese, crusty bread, a cold raspberry tart, and several crisp apples, all served on China plates.
~ Elizabeth Hoyt
The best foods to aid rest are whole-grain carbohydrates, green leafy vegetables, cow's milk, soy milk, bananas, avocadoes, nuts, nut butters, seeds, and warm milk And, of course, the award-winning rest-inducing food: breast milk.
~ Elizabeth Pantley
intervals of munching and mumbling as she crammed food into her mouth. I did not blame Lady Baskerville for her precipitate departure
~ Elizabeth Peters
None wished to appear greedy, or obsessed by food; but food made the breaks in the day, and menus offered a little choosing, and satisfactions and disappointments, as once life had.
~ Elizabeth Taylor
I shall give you lovely food; and Papa says that lovely food is the one thing that ever really makes a man give himself the trouble to rise up and call his wife blessed.
~ Elizabeth von Arnim
Hero-Food-Stuffed Peppers
~ Ellie Krieger
Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
All foods which the animals as well as the humans use are, already, the result of the solar energy transformed into what may be called chemical energy. Transformation of energies is building up of life.
~ Alfred Korzybski
It was served at breakfast, along with five ounces of seal steak.
~ Alfred Lansing
Greenstreet observed: "The food now is pretty well all meat.
~ Alfred Lansing