Best 2531 quotes in «food quotes» category

If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.

If you are what you eat then feed me dope.

If you could make a pudding wi' thinking o' the batter, it 'ud be easy getting dinner.

If you don't love life you can't enjoy an oyster; there is a shock of freshness to it and intimations of the ages of man, some piercing intuition of the sea and all its weeds and breezes. [They] shiver you for a split second.

If you find an Australian indoors, it's a fair bet that he will have a glass in his hand.

If you have formed the habit of checking on every new diet that comes along, you will find that, mercifully, they all blur together, leaving you with only one definite piece of information: french-fried potatoes are out.

If your doctor does not think it good for you to sleep, to drink wine, or to eat of a particular dish, do not worry; I will find you another who will not agree with him.

If you're given champagne at lunch, there's a catch somewhere.

If you're using first-class land for biofuels, then you're competing with the growing of food. And so you're actually spiking food prices by moving energy production into agriculture.

If your slave commits a fault, do not smash his teeth with your fists; give him some of the (hard) biscuit which famous Rhodes has sent you.

If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.

If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it.

If you want to know the people of a nation, I am sure you can judge a great deal more about them from their cooking and eating traditions than you can from the words and actions of their public officials.

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

I get way too much happiness from good food.

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

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

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

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

I know on which side my bread is buttered.

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 terra firma; the more firma, the less terra.

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

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

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.

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

I love fruit, when it is expensive.

I'm a man more dined against than dining.

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 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 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.

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

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.

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