Best 2531 quotes in «food quotes» category

I get way too much happiness from good food.

I got food poisoning today. I don't know when I'll use it.

I had arrived at the airport one hour early so that, in accordance with airline procedures, I could stand around.

I had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado, or ceremony, than feed upon turkey at another man's table.

I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage, with my books, my family, and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post which any human power can give.

I hate with a bitter hatred the names of lentils haricots - those pretentious cheats of the appetite, those tabulated humbugs, those certified aridites calling themselves human food!

I have always maintained that there is nothing wrong with nursery food now that we are grown up and can have a glass of wine with it.

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.

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout.

I have found it to be the most serious objection to coarse labors long continued, that they compelled me to eat and drink coarsely also.

I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale.

I have lived temperately....I double the doctor's recommendation of a glass and a half wine each day and even treble it with a friend.

I hire tea by the tea bag.

I haven't eaten at a McDonald's since I became President.

I know a good woman who thinks that her son lost his life because he took to drinking water only.

I just want one day off when I can go swimming and eat ice cream and look at rainbows.

I know on which side my bread is buttered.

I know folks all have a tizzy about it, but I like a little bourbon of an evening. It helps me sleep. I don't much care what they say about it.

I like terra firma; the more firma, the less terra.

I like spaghetti because you don't have to take your eyes off the book to pick about among it, it's all the same.

I liked the energy of cooking, the action, the camaraderie. I often compare the kitchen to sports and compare the chef to a coach. There are a lot of similarities to it.

I like to eat and I love the diversity of foods.

Illness isn't the only thing that spoils the appetite.

I like to serve chocolate cake, because it doesn't show the dirt.

I love drinking now and then. It defecates the standing pool of thought. A man perpetually in the paroxysm and fears of inebriety is like a half-drowned stupid wretch condemned to labor unceasingly in water; but a now-and-then tribute to Bacchus is like the cold bath, bracing and invigorating.

I loved my mother very much, but she was not a good cook. Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before. In our house Thanksgiving was a time for sorrow.

I love food and feel that it is something that should be enjoyed. I eat whatever I want. I just don't overeat.

I love fruit, when it is expensive.

I love simple food. I like to serve the entire animal, not only because it somehow provokes a customer to think about it, but also because to honor of the animal that has been killed for us to eat, you have to eat the whole thing. It would be silly to just eat the chops and throw everything else away.

I'm a man more dined against than dining.

I’m awfully sorry for people who are taken in by all of today’s dietary mumbo jumbo. They are not getting any enjoyment out of their food.

In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn.

I'm fond of anything that comes from the sea, and that includes sailors.

In America, even your menus have the gift of language.... The Chef's own Vienna Roast. A hearty, rich meat loaf, gently seasoned to perfection and served in a creamy nest of mashed farm potatoes and strictly fresh garden vegetables. Of course, what you get is cole slaw and a slab of meat, but that doesn't matter because the menu has already started your juices going. Oh, those menus. In America, they are poetry.

In America, I would say New York and New Orleans are the two most interesting food towns. In New Orleans, they don't have a bad deli. There's no mediocrity accepted.

In department stores, so much kitchen equipment is bought indiscriminately by people who just come in for men's underwear.

In case my life should end with the cannibals, I hope they will write on my tombstone, 'We have eaten Dr. Schweitzer. He was good to the end.'

In Ethiopia, where I was born, all the cooks are women. When I grew up in Sweden, my mom and my grandmother did predominantly all the cooking. Then I changed to restaurant kitchens, where all of a sudden there were just more men than women, and I always thought that was weird.

Indigestion: A disease which the patient and his friends frequently mistake for deep religious conviction and concern for the salvation of mankind. As the simple Red Man of the Western Wild put it, with, it must be confessed, a certain force: 'Plenty well, no pray; big belly ache, heap God.'

I never eat sushi. I have trouble eating things that are merely unconscious.

I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine; every man for himself, and God for us all.

I never met a Cab I didn't like.

I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number of carats in a diamond.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.

In general, I think, human beings are happiest at table when they are very young, very much in love or very alone.

In modern America, food is abundant everywhere except aboard commercial airplanes.

In Italy, they add work and life on to food and wine.

In medieval times the habit arose of expressing a man's wealth, no longer in terms of the amount of land in his estate, but of the amount of pepper in his pantry. One way of saying that a man was poor was to say that he lacked pepper. The wealthy lacked pepper. The wealthy kept large stores of pepper in their houses, and let it be known that it was there: it was a guarantee of solvency.

In my experience of vegan food it tends to be a symphony of beige.