Quotes about food
food eating-good meat
Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen. Ralph Waldo Emerson
food beer yeast
God made yeast, as well as dough, and loves fermentation just as dearly as he loves vegetation. Ralph Waldo Emerson
food men vegetables
The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me and I to them. Ralph Waldo Emerson
food perfect cooking
There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat. Ralph Waldo Emerson
food color chinese
We (the Chinese) eat food for its texture, the elastic or crisp effect it has on our teeth, as well as for fragrance, flavor and color. Lin Yutang
food ayurveda cooking
Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks. Lin Yutang
food numbers people
The best way to eat crabs, as everyone knows, is off newspaper at a large table with a large number of people. Laurie Colwin
food house pet
I will never eat fish eyeballs, and I do not want to taste anything commonly kept as a house pet, but otherwise I am a cinch to feed. Laurie Colwin
food past cooking-classes
No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, the wisdom of cookbook writers. Laurie Colwin
food miracle garlic
There are many miracles in the world to be celebrated and, for me, garlic is the most deserving. Leo Buscaglia
food yesterday cooking
The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today. Lewis Carroll
food people vegetarian
Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming. Joseph Campbell
food salt world
Salt and the center of the world have to be there, in that spot on the tablecloth. Julio Cortazar
food cities eating
My favorite food city is wherever I happen to be eating. You know what they say, love the one you're with! Pamela Anderson
food sound crepes
If there's a sexier sound on this planet than the person you're in love with cooing over the crepes you made for him, I don't know what it is. Julie Powell
food able appetite
Stop short of your appetite; eat less than you are able. Ovid
food doritos faces
He was chugging brown pop from a can Jack had handed him while he stuffed nacho cheese Doritos in his face. I was glad to see he looked lots better, almost completely like himself, which proves Doritos and brown pop really are health foods. P. C. Cast
food sandwiches spoons
Sandwiches are wonderful. You don't need a spoon or a plate! Paul Lynde
food air light
Chameleons feed on light and air: Poets food is love and fame. Percy Bysshe Shelley
food character mind
It is the food which you furnish to your mind that determines the whole character of your life. Emmet Fox
food simple trying
Parla Come Mangi' --It is a common way to say 'be simple', 'don't try to be rhetorical' literaly: 'speak the way you eat Elizabeth Gilbert
food weight-loss dieting
I am a better person when I have less on my plate. Elizabeth Gilbert
food journey stories
This magical, marvelous food on our plate, this sustenance we absorb, has a story to tell. It has a journey. It leaves a footprint. It leaves a legacy. To eat with reckless abandon, without conscience, without knowledge; folks, this ain't normal. Joel Salatin
food night years
I have a theory that since everyone is always dieting, no one at a convention dinner ever eats the potatoes. Therefore, they go back to the kitchen uneaten. And the next night they reappear at another convention. Therefore, one should never eat the potatoes. Who knows? They may be six or seven years old. Lois Wyse
food teaching learning
If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it. Mao Zedong
food people cooking
That's something I've noticed about food: whenever there's a crisis if you can get people to eating normally things get better. Madeleine L'Engle
food cake want
Cakes have such a terrible habit of turning out bad just when you especially want them to be good. Lucy Maud Montgomery
food writing poetry-is
If food is poetry, is not poetry also food? Joyce Carol Oates
food giving cooking
Cooking demands attention, patience, and above all, a respect for the gifts of the earth. It is a form of worship, a way of giving thanks. Judith Jones
food bread sides
I know on which side my bread is buttered. John Heywood
food bread half
Better is half a loaf than no bread. John Heywood
food science turkeys
Hamburger steak is carrion, and quite unfit for food except by a turkey buzzard, a hyena, or some other scavenger. John Harvey Kellogg
food nuts earth
Here we supped . . ., having amongst other dainties, a dish of truffles, an earth nut found by an hogg trained to it. John Evelyn