Best 2531 quotes in «food quotes» category

To be tempted and indulged by the city's most brilliant chefs. It's the dream of every one of us in love with food.

To buy very good wine nowadays requires only money. To serve it to your guests is a sign of fatigue.

To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense.

To feel safe and warm on a cold wet night, all you really need is soup.

To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist - the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one's vinegar.

Too many cooks spoil the broth

Triangular sandwiches taste better than square ones.

Truffle isn't exactly aphrodisiac but under certain circumstances it tends to make women more tender and men more likable

Truffles must come to the table in their own stock and as you break open this jewel sprung from a poverty-stricken soil, imagine - if you have never visited it - the desolate kingdom where it rules.

Turkey is undoubtedly one of the best gifts that the New World has made to the Old.

Truths are first clouds; then rain, then harvest and food.

Two things only the people actually desire: bread and circuses.

Two words to improve any dish. Ba, Con

Unless we change our food choices, nothing else matters. Because it is meat that is destroying most of our forests. It is meat that pollutes the waters. It is meat that is creating disease which leads to all our money being diverted to hospitals. So, it's the first choice for anybody who wants to save the Earth.

Until a vegan or vegetarian enters the room, people don't see themselves as meat-eaters. They are merely 'eaters', and it is we vegans who have made them aware of what they are doing. Often this is discomforting.

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.

Upscale people are fixated with food simply because they are now able to eat so much of it without getting fat, and the reason they don't get fat is that they maintain a profligate level of calorie expenditure. The very same people whose evenings begin with melted goats cheese... get up at dawn to run, break for a mid-morning aerobics class, and watch the evening news while racing on a stationary bicycle.

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.

Vegetarians are people who cannot hear tomatos screaming.

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

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

Waffles are like pancakes with syrup traps

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.

Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

We never repent of having eaten too little.

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

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

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

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.

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 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 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.

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 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.

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