Quotes about food
food oysters soup
This is not that, and that is certainly not this, and at the same time an oyster stew is not stewed, and although they are made of the same things and even cooked almost the same way, an oyster soup should never be called a stew, nor stew soup. M. F. K. Fisher
food wine drunk
There's a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.
food memorable dinner
Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters.
food yoga exercise
The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight... [Breadmaking is] one of those almost hypnotic businesses, like a dance from some ancient ceremony. It leaves you filled with one of the world's sweetest smells... there is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel. that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread.
food thinking tables
In general, I think, human beings are happiest at table when they are very young, very much in love or very alone.
food eggs broken
Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg until it is broken.
food believe men
It is a curious fact that no man likes to call himself a glutton, and yet each of us has in him a trace of gluttony, potential or actual. I cannot believe that there exists a single coherent human being who will not confess, at least to himself, that once or twice he has stuffed himself to bursting point on anything from quail financiere to flapjacks, for no other reason than the beastlike satisfaction of his belly.
food snow cooking
You may feel that you have eaten too much...But this pastry is like feathers - it is like snow. It is in fact good for you, a digestive!
food writing hunger
When I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and it is all one.
food thinking hands
I am more modest now, but I still think that one of the pleasantest of all emotions is to know that I, I with my brain and my hands, have nourished my beloved few, that I have concocted a stew or a story, a rarity or a plain dish, to sustain them truly against the hungers of the world.
food cutting men
All men are hungry. They always have been. They must eat, and when they deny themselves the pleasures of carrying out that need, they are cutting off part of their possible fullness, their natural realization of life, whether they are rich or poor.
food cooking firsts
First we eat, then we do everything else.
food writing reality
It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others. So it happens that when I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and the hunger for it… and then the warmth and richness and fine reality of hunger satisfied… and it is all one.
food watches figures
If you don't watch your figure, you'll have more figure to watch. Malcolm Forbes
food wine light
It is well known among physicians that the best of the nourishing foods is the one that the Moslem religion forbids, i.e., Wine. It contains much good and light nourishment. It is rapidly digested and helps to digest other foods. Maimonides
food wine glasses
A small amount of wine such as three or four glasses is of benefit for the preservation of the health of human beings and an excellent remedy for most illnesses.
food quality speech
I shall content myself with merely declaring my firm conviction that, for the seeker who would live in fear of God and who would see Him face to face, restraint in diet both as to quantity and quality is as essential as restraint in thought and speech. Mahatma Gandhi
food hungry form
God comes to the hungry in the form of food.
food eating belly
After a full belly all is poetry. Frank McCourt
food weight-loss chocolate
Anything is good if it's made of chocolate. Jo Brand
food label labeling relate safety state warning
The legislation addresses only food safety tolerances and warning label requirements. It does not relate to other state labeling requirements.
food sake enjoy
I eat to live, to serve, and also, if it so happens, to enjoy, but I do not eat for the sake of enjoyment.
food wine thinking
It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption. James Thurber
food grace may
I am going to learn to make bread tomorrow. So if you may imagine me with my sleeves rolled up, mixing flour, milk, saleratus, etc., with a deal of grace. I advise you if you dont know how to make the staff of life to learn with dispatch. Emily Dickinson
food romance cooking
You take romance - I'll take Jell-O. Ella Fitzgerald
food good income low meals nutrition school source
All school food should be good food. School meals should be an important source of nutrition for children, especially those from low income households.
food gathered laid land round seven
And he gathered up all the food of the seven years, which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was round about every city, laid he up in the same.
food cooking culinary
As for those grapefruit and buttermilk diets, I'll take roast chicken and dumplings. Hattie McDaniel
food men differences
There is a vast difference between the savage and the civilized man, but it is never apparent to their wives until after breakfast. Helen Rowland
food men offering
Ever since Eve started it all by offering Adam the apple, woman's punishment has been to supply a man with food then suffer the consequences when it disagrees with him.
food cooking sprinkles
Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup. Henry James
food today tomorrow
I am more than ever convinced that what we eat today is what we are tomorrow. Helena Rubinstein
food hair floating
What an awful thing life is, isn’t it? It’s like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless. Gustave Flaubert