Best 2531 quotes in «food quotes» category

Raisins are a thing that lasts, they come in small boxes, and you always feel like eating raisins, even at six in the morning. A raisin is always an appropriate snack.

Reality is an illusion created by a lack of alcohol.

Red meat is not bad for you. Now blue-green meat, that's bad for you!

Remember that a very good sardine is always preferable to a not that good lobster.

Revenge is a dish best served cold.

Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something.

Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.

Salt is white and pure - there is something holy in salt.

Sailboats are the slowest form of transportation on Earth with the possible exeption of airline flights that go through O'Hare.

Said Aristotle unto Plato, 'Have another sweet potato?' Said Plato unto Aristotle, 'Thank you, I prefer the bottle.'

Salad freshens without enfeebling and fortifies without irritating.

Salt is born of the purest parents: the sun and the sea.

Salt is the difference between eating in Technicolor and eating in black and white.

Salt is the policeman of taste: it keeps the various flavors of a dish in order and restrains the stronger from tyrannizing over the weaker.

Sandwiches are wonderful. You don't need a spoon or a plate!

SATIETY, n. The feeling that one has for the plate after he has eaten its contents, madam.

SAUCE, n. The one infallible sign of civilization and enlightenment. A people with no sauces has one thousand vices; a people with one sauce has only nine hundred and ninety-nine. For every sauce invented and accepted a vice is renounced and forgiven.

Secretly in my heart, I believe food is a doorway to almost every dimension of our existence. ... Food never was just food. From the time a cave person first came out from under a rock, food has been a little bit of everything: who we are spiritually as well as what keeps us alive. It's a gathering place, and in the best of all worlds it's possible that when people of one country sit down to eat another culture's food it will open their minds to the culture itself. Food is a doorway to understanding, and it can be as profound or as facile as you would like it to be.

Scotch Whisky is about the only thing left that is guaranteed to bring comfort to mankind.

Seems to me God made a big mistake when He failed to put handles on watermelons.

Serve the dinner backward, do anything - but for goodness sake, do something weird.

Self-centeredness will bring on the destruction of our world. National pride separates people. All people need the same thing. When you really get down to it, you'll find that all people need good food, clean water, clean air, and a decent environment, meaning education as to how to relate to one another and to avoid conflict, how to accept the differences where different people draw different conclusions.

Self restraint in speech, food, entertainment and vanity are the most essential fundamental of spiritual growth.

Seriously, if someone don't like this appetizer, you gotta grab they scruffy ass by the back of their neck and throw them out on the lawn. I can't help people like that.

Serve this dish with much too much wine for your guests, along with some cooked green vegetables and a huge salad. You will be famous in about half an hour.

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

She knows no difference 'twixt head and privities who devours immense oysters at midnight.

She ate so many clams that her stomach rose and fell with the tide.

Shake the hand that feeds you.

Shape is a good part of the fig's delight.

...shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle. Indeed of the whole realm of Nature the sea is in many ways the most harmful to the stomach, with its great variety of dishes and tasty fish.

She set about preparing her supper. It would have to be one of those classically simple meals, the sort that French peasants are said to eat and that enlightened English people sometimes enjoy rather self-consciously - a crusty French loaf, cheese, and lettuce and tomatoes from the garden. Of course there should have been wine and a lovingly prepared dressing of oil and vinegar, but Dulcie drank orange squash and ate mayonnaise that came from a bottle.

Sitting down to a meal with an Indian family is different from sitting down to a meal with a British family.

Since, during storms, flames leap from the humid vapors and dark clouds emit deafening noises, is it surprising the lightning, when it strikes the ground, gives rise to truffles, which do not resemble plants?

Slaves were taught to be fine chefs, but they endangered their lives if they made a mistake or served an ill-prepared dish. Rather than being reprimanded, they were often hauled into the dining room and flogged in the presence of the guests.

Slicing a warm slab of bacon is a lot like giving a ferret a shave. No matter how careful you are, somebody's going to get hurt.

Since we have a good loaf, let us not look for cheesecakes.

Skinny foodie, get away from me.

Slow Food unites the pleasure of food with responsibility, sustainability and harmony with nature.

Smell and taste are in fact but a single composite sense, whose laboratory is the mouth and its chimney the nose.

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.

So long as people don't know how to eat they will not have good cooks.

So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

Some guy invented Vitamin A out of a carrot. I'll bet he can't invent a good meal out of one.

Some hours after eating this dish [lièvre à la royale, which contains 20 cloves of garlic and twice that quantity of shallots], there is a peculiar sensation of liberation in the head. and it is sensation of smell.

Someone is putting brandy in your bonbons, Grand Marnier in your breakfast jam, Kahlua in your ice cream, Scotch in your mustard and Wild Turkey in your cake.

Some of the best fiction writers got their start writing airline menus.

Some people kiss as if they were eating watermelon

Some people have family crests, lions, tigers, unicorns, elephants - a whole menagerie - and if my family had a crest, you know what would be on it? A blintze. I mean it. All the good things in my life are measured in blintzes because by us it's not a party if there isn't a blintze.

Some people have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind my belly very studiously, and very carefully; for I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else.