Best 2531 quotes in «food quotes» category

It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings.

It's okay to be fat. So you're fat. Just be fat and shut up about it.

it still astounds me, after forty years, that there is no good bread between Chicago and San Francisco.

It [Thanksgiving] was founded by the Puritans to give thanks for bein' preserved from the Indians, an' we keep it to give thanks we are preserved from the Puritans.

It was dramatic to watch my grandmother decapitate a turkey with an ax the day before Thanksgiving. Nowadays the expense of hiring grandmothers for the ax work would probably qualify all turkeys so honored with gourmet status.

It was for bringing the cook tulip-roots instead of onions.

It was kind of boring for me to have to eat. I would know that I had to, and I would.

It was quite a challenge to make people eat crab ice cream.

I understand the big food companies are developing a tearless onion. I think they can do it - after all, they've already given us tasteless bread.

I've long said that if I were about to be executed and were given a choice of my last meal, it would be bacon and eggs. There are few sights that appeal to me more than the streaks of lean and fat in a good side of bacon, or the lovely round of pinkish meat framed in delicate white fat that is Canadian bacon. Nothing is quite as intoxicating as the smell of bacon frying in the morning, save perhaps the smell of coffee brewing.

I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.

I use the word 'fat'. I use that word because that's what people are: they're fat. They're not bulky; they're not large, chunky, hefty or plump. And they're not big-boned. Dinosaurs were big-boned. These people are not overweight: this term somehow implies there is some correct weight... There is no correct weight. Heavy is also a misleading term. An aircraft carrier is heavy; it's not fat. Only people are fat, and that's what fat people are! They're fat !

I've liked lots of people 'til I went on a picnic jaunt with them.

I've stopped drinking, but only while I'm asleep.

I want order and taste. A well displayed meal is enhanced one hundred per cent in my eyes.

I want a dish to taste good, rather than to have been seethed in pig's milk and served wrapped in a rhubarb leaf with grated thistle root.

I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

I want every peasant to have a chicken in his pot on Sundays.

I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.

I was raised almost entirely on turnips and potatoes, but I think that the turnips had more to do with the effect than the potatoes.

I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water.

I was trampled to death by a man who believed his luggage would be the first piece off. If he were an experienced traveler, he would know that the first piece of luggage belongs to no one. It's just a dummy suitcase to give everyone hope.

I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character; like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy. The turkey is a much more respectable bird, and withal a true original native of America.

I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, 'I'd like some fries.' The girl at the counter said, 'Would you like some fries with that?'

I went to this restaurant last night that was set up like a big buffet in the shape of an Ouija board. You'd think about what kind of food you want, and the table would move across the floor to it.

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.

I wonder if I love the communal act of eating so much because throughout my childhood, with four older brothers and a mom who worked in the restaurant business, I spent a lot of time fending for myself, eating alone - and recognizing how eating together made all the difference.

I won't eat anything green.

I went home and took my wife and went to my Cosen Tho. Pepys's and found them just sat down to dinner, which was very good; only the venison pasty was palpable beef, which was not handsome.

I will not move my army without onions.

I won't eat anything that has intelligent life, but I'd gladly eat a network executive or a politician.

I wouldn't go in a fast food outlet even to use the toilet.

I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning.

I would stand transfixed before the windows of the confectioners' shops, fascinated by the luminous sparkle of candied fruits, the cloudy lustre of jellies, the kaleidoscope inflorescence of acidulated fruit drops - red, green, orange, violet: I coveted the colours themselves as much as the pleasure they promised me.

Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.

Japanese food is very pretty and undoubtedly a suitable cuisine in Japan, which is largely populated by people of below average size. Hostesses hell-bent on serving such food to occidentals would be well advised to supplement it with something more substantial and to keep in mind that almost everybody likes french fries.

Judging foods without regard to price is a rich mans game, and yet poor people can be gourmets able to discern a good potato from a bad one.

Keep as near as ever you can to the first sources of supply—fruits and vegetables.

Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.

Ketchup left overnight on dinner plates has a longer half-life than radioactive waste.

Kitchen Physic is the best Physic.

Let the revolting distinction of rich and poor disappear once and for all, the distinction of great and small, of masters and valets, of governors and governed. Let there be no other differences between human beings than those of age and sex. Since all have the same needs and the same faculties, let there be one education for all, one food for all.

Large, naked, raw carrots are acceptable as food only to those who live in hutches eagerly awaiting Easter.

Lentils are friendly - the Miss Congeniality of the bean world.

Let us candidly admit that there are shameful blemishes on the American past, of which the worst by far is rum. Nevertheless, we have improved man's lot and enriched his civilization with rye, bourbon and the Martini cocktail. In all history has any other nation done so much?

Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.

Know that you have complete control over what you put in your mouth. No one ever ate anything by accident.

Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.

Leave the eggs to bathe for 15 minutes in the hot water like a sexy Swedish chick in a natural mineral sauna.

Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means.