Best 2531 quotes in «food quotes» category

Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, & sloth; Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both.

Better is half a loaf than no bread.

Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.

Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.

Between the ages of twenty and fifty, John Doe spends some twenty thousand hours chewing and swallowing food, more than eight hundred days and nights of steady eating. The mere contemplation of this fact is upsetting enough.

Beware the hobby that eats.

Borscht is more than a soup, it's a weather vane. When my family says they want hot borscht I know winter is coming, and when they want cold borscht I know how far can spring be behind?

Breakfast is a notoriously difficult meal to serve with a flourish.

Bread is a staple article of diet in theory, rather than in practice. There are few who are truly fond of bread in its simplest, most pure, and most healthful state.... Is there one person in a thousand who would truly enjoy a meal of simple bread of two days old?

Bread, milk and butter are of venerable antiquity. They taste of the morning of the world.

Breakfast cereals that come in the same colors as polyester leisure suits make oversleeping a virtue.

Brandy and water spoils two good things.

Breaking a glass in the northwest is rather like belching in Arabia, for it appears to be done as a mark of appreciation or elation.

Bread is the king of the table and all else is merely the court that surrounds the king. The countries are the soup, the meat, the vegetables, the salad, but bread is king.

Bread that must be sliced with an axe is bread that is too nourishing.

Brioches are a light, pale yellow, faintly sweet kind of muffin with a characteristic blob on top, rather like a mushroom just pushing crookedly through the ground. Once eaten in Paris, they never taste as good anywhere else.

Bring me an order of escargots, but hold the slugs.

Burgundy makes you think of silly things; Bordeaux makes you talk about them, and Champagne makes you do them.

But beef is rare within these oxless isles; Goat's flesh there is, no doubt, and kid, and mutton; And, when a holiday upon them smiles, A joint upon their barbarous spits they put on.

But I always felt that I'd rather be provincial hot-tamale than soup without seasoning.

But I don't want nutrition. I want food!

By making this wine known to the public, I have rendered my country as great a service as if I had enabled it to pay back the national debt.

But when that smoking chowder came in, the mystery was delightfully explained. Oh! sweet friends, hearken to me. It was made of small juicy clams, scarcely bigger than hazel nuts, mixed with pounded ship biscuits and salted pork cut up into little flakes! the whole enriched with butter, and plentifully seasoned with pepper and salt... we dispatched it with great expedition.

But some of us are beginning to pull well away, in our irritation, from...the exquisite tasters, the vintage snobs, the three-star Michelin gourmets. There is, we feel, a decent area somewhere between boiled carrots and Beluga caviare, sour plonk and Chateau Lafitte, where we can take care of our gullets and bellies without worshipping them.

Cake baking has to be, however innocently, one of the great culinary scams: it implies effort, it implies domestic prowess; but believe me, it's easy.

Cabbage as a food has problems. It is easy to grow, a useful source of greenery for much of the year. Yet as a vegetable it has original sin, and needs improvement. It can smell foul in the pot, linger through the house with pertinacity, and ruin a meal with its wet flab. Cabbage also has a nasty history of being good for you.

Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.

Cabbages, whose heads, tightly folded see and hear nothing of this world, dreaming only on the yellow and green magnificence that is hardening within them.

Cakes have such a terrible habit of turning out bad just when you especially want them to be good.

Cassoulet, that best of bean feasts, is everyday fare for a peasant but ambrosia for a gastronome, though its ideal consumer is a 300-pound blocking back who has been splitting firewood nonstop for the last twelve hours on a subzero day in Manitoba.

...cassoulet, like life itself, is not so simple as it seems.

Cat food. It stinks a bit, but if you don't put up with the smell, the little kitten will die.

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Celebrity has its uses. I can always get a seat in any restaurant.

Central heating, French rubber goods and cookbooks are three amazing proofs of man's ingenuity in transforming necessity into art, and, of these, cookbooks are perhaps most lastingly delightful.

Chef: Any cook who swears in French.

Champagne had the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife.

Cheese has always been a food that both sophisticated and simple humans love.

Chicken fat, beef fat, fish fat, fried foods - these are the foods that fuel our fat genes by giving them raw materials for building body fat.

Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy.

Chameleons feed on light and air: Poets food is love and fame.

Cheese. The adult form of milk.

Chicken may be eaten constantly without becoming nauseating.

Cherry cobbler is shortcake with a soul.

Children, not a grain of the food we eat is made purely by our own effort. What comes to us in the form of food is the work of others, the bounty of Nature and God's compassion. Even if we have millions of dollars, we still need food to satisfy our hunger. Can we eat dollars? Therefore, never eat anything without first praying with humility.

Cheese that is required by law to append the word food to its title does not go well with red wine or fruit.

Chopsticks are one of the reasons the Chinese never invented custard.

Chutney is marvelous. I'm mad about it. To me, it's very imperial.

Children, we cannot control our mind without controlling our desire for taste. The health aspect, not the taste, should be the prime criteria in choosing the food. We cannot relish the blossoming of the heart without foregoing the taste of the tongue.

Children, we should always eat our food sitting down. Do not eat standing or walking around.