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Vegetarianism can easily reach religious proportions. Refraining from meat on moral grounds serves to dignify feelings of guilt toward sad-eyed, furry creatures and substitutes righteousness for squeamishness.

Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.

Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.

Vegetarians claim to be immune from most diseases but they have been known to die from time to time.

Vegetarians have wicked, shifty eyes, and laugh in a cold calculating manner. They pinch little children, steal stamps, drink water, favor beards.

Virtue, like wholesome food, is better than poisons, however corrected.

Waffles are like pancakes with syrup traps

Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

We all eat & it would be a sad waste of opportunity to eat badly.

We all have hometown appetites. Every other person is a bundle of longing for the simplicities of good taste once enjoyed on the farm or in the hometown left behind.

We are all dietetic sinners; only a small percent of what we eat nourishes us; the balance goes to waste and loss of energy.

We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are.

We don't need to eat anyone who would run, swim, or fly away if he could.

We don't care to eat toadstools that think they are truffles.

We may eat dinner together, but everyone puts the food in his own mouth.

We drink [to] one another's health and spoil our own.

We know that ever woman wants to be thin. Our images of womanhood are almost synonymous with thinness.

Well, it is a humiliating reflection, that the straightest road to a man's heart is through his palate.

We load up on oat bran in the morning so we'll live forever. Then we spend the rest of the day living like there's no tomorrow.

We manage to swallow flesh, only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing we do.

We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.

We need a new definition of malnutrition. Malnutrition means under- and over-nutrition. Malnutrition means emaciated and obese.

We owe much to the fruitful meditation of our sages, but a sane view of life is, after all, elaborated mainly in the kitchen.

We never repent of having eaten too little.

We thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well being and delight.

We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink.

We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should.

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.

We would load up the yellow Cutlass Supreme station wagon and pick blackberries during blackberry season or spring onions during spring onion season. For us, food was part of the fabric of our day.

What does cookery mean? It means the knowledge of Medea and of Circe, and of Calypso, and Sheba. It means knowledge of all herbs, and fruits, and balms and spices... It means the economy of your great-grandmother and the science of modern chemistry, and French art, and Arabian hospitality. It means, in fine, that you are to see imperatively that everyone has something nice to eat.

What good is it if you talk in flowers, and they think in pastry?

What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking!

What I love about cooking is that after a hard day, there is something comforting about the fact that if you melt butter and add flour and then hot stock, it will get thick! It's a sure thing! It's a sure thing in a world where nothing is sure; it has a mathematical certainty in a world where those of us who long for some kind of certainty are forced to settle for crossword puzzles.

What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others

What is sauce for the goose may be sauce for the gander, but it is not necessarily sauce for the chicken, the duck, the turkey or the Guinea hen.

What keeps me motivated is not the food itself but all the bonds and memories the food represents.

What hunger is in relation to food, zest is in relation to life.

What is literature compared with cooking? The one is shadow, the other is substance.

What I've enjoyed most, though, is meeting people who have a real interest in food and sharing ideas with them. Good food is a global thing and I find that there is always something new and amazing to learn - I love it!

What's sad about not eating is the experience, whether at a family reunion or at midnight by yourself in a greasy spoon under the L tracks. The loss of dining, not the loss of food.

What we're really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving?

Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine.

When evening quickens in the street, comes a pause in the day's occupation that is known as the cocktail hour. It marks the lifeward turn. The heart wakens from coma and its dyspnea ends. Its strengthening pulse is to cross over into campground, to believe that the world has not been altogether lost or, if lost, then not altogether in vain.

Whenever someone asks me if I want water with my scotch, I say, I'm thirsty, not dirty.

When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.

Whenever I was called a gourmet, I suspected I was being accused of something at least slightly unpleasant. But that was before I heard the term "foodie." I am still not sure that a gourmet is a good thing to be, but it must be better than a foodie.

When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.

...when food is shared in a fair way, with solidarity, when no one is deprived, every community can meet the needs of the poorest. Human ecology and environmental ecology walk together.

When I eat with my friends, it is a moment of real pleasure, when I really enjoy my life.

When I develop my recipes I always look for ways to create what I call the Big Taste. While I enjoy eating simple grilled foods, what interests me when I cook are dishes with a taste that is fully dimensional.