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The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it's bad for you.

The first printed mention of bagels... is to be found in the Community Regulations of Kracow, Poland, for the year 1610 which stated that bagels would be given as a gift to any woman in childbirth.

The first time I ate organic whole-grain bread I swear it tasted like roofing material.

The first zucchini I ever saw I killed it with a hoe.

The food of thy soul is light and space; feed it then on light and space. But the food of thy body is champagne and oysters; feed it then on champagne and oysters; and so shall it merit a joyful resurrection, if there is any to be.

The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small.

The food you eat can either be the safest and most powerful form of medicine, or the slowest form of poison

The French fried potato has become an inescapable horror in almost every public eating place in the country. 'French fries', say the menus, but they are not French fries any longer. They are a furry-textured substance with the taste of plastic wood.

The French use cooking as a means of self-expression, and this meal perfectly represented the personality of a cook who had spent the morning resting her unwashed chin on the edge of a tureen, pondering whether she should end her life immediately by plunging her head into her abominable soup.

The friendly cow, all red and white, I love with all my heart; She gives me cream with all her might, To eat with apple-tart.

The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.

The greatest change we need to make is from consumption to production, even if on a small scale, in our own gardens. If only 10% of us do this, there is enough for everyone. Hence the futility of revolutionaries who have no gardens, who depend on the very system they attack, and who produce words and bullets, not food and shelter.

The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me and I to them.

The Highlanders regale themselves with whisky. They find it an excellent preservation against the winter cold. It is given with great success to the infants in the confluent smallpox.

The hippopotamus is a vegetarian and looks like a wall. Lions who eat only red meat are sleek and slim. Are nutritionists on the wrong track?

The history of government regulation of food safety is one of government watchdogs chasing the horse after it's out of the barn.

The Infusion of a China plant sweetened with the pith of an Indian Cane.

The key dietary messages are stunningly simple: Eat less, move more, eat more fruits and vegetables, and don't eat too much junk food. It's no more complicated than that.

The Italians were eating with forks when the French were still eating each other.

The kitchen, reasonably enough, was the scene of my first gastronomic adventure. I was on all fours. I crawled into the vegetable bin, settled on a giant onion and ate it, skin and all. It must have marked me for life, for I have never ceased to love the hearty flavor of raw onions.

The kitchen is the great laboratory of the household, and much of the 'weal and woe' as far as regards bodily health, depends on the nature of the preparations concocted within its walls.

The juice of the grape is the liquid quintessence of concentrated sunbeams.

The last taste of sweets is sweetest last.

The longer I live, the more I am convinced that the apothecary is of more importance than Seneca; and that half the unhappiness in the world proceeds from little stoppages; from a duct choked up, from food pressing in the wrong place, from a vexed duodenum, or an agitated pylorus.

The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato. The best part is underground.

The mangosteen, queen of the tropical fruit.

The mental disposition of the one who prepares the food is transmitted to all those who consume it. Therefore, as far as possible the mothers should do the cooking for the entire family. If it is done while chanting the mantra, the food will benefit everyone in a spiritual way.

The meat industry spends hundreds of millions of dollars lying to the public about their product. But no amount of false propaganda can sanitize meat. The facts are absolutely clear: Eating meat is bad for human health, catastrophic for the environment, and a living nightmare for animals

The mere smell of cooking can evoke a whole civilization.

The most dangerous food is wedding cake.

The most sincere form of love is love for food

The most important thing to remember about food labels is that you should avoid foods that have labels.

The most powerful social media... it is not the internet, it is not Facebook - it is food. This connects all human beings.

Then from far away across the world he smelled good things to eat, so he gave up being king of the wild things.

The natural term of an apple-pie is but twelve hours. It reaches its highest state about one hour after it comes from the oven, and just before its natural heat has quite departed. But every hour afterward is a declension. And after it is one day old, it is thence-forward but the ghastly corpse of apple-pie.

The noise from good toast should reverberate in the head like the thunder of July.

The office of the prince and that of the writer are defined and assigned as follows: the nobleman gives rank to the written work,the writer provides food for the prince.

The only kind of seafood I trust is the fish stick, a totally featureless fish that doesn't have eyeballs or fins.

The onion tribe is prophylactic and highly invigorating, and even more necessary to cookery than parsley itself.

The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.

The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life.

The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.

The people who give you their food give you their heart.

The origin of agriculture involved both human intentionality and a set of underlying ecological and evolutionary principles.

The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.

The pleasures of the table belong to all times and ages, to every country and every day; they go hand in hand with all our other pleasures, outlast them, and remain to console us for their loss.

The powder is mixed with water and tastes exactly like powder mixed with water.

The quest for slowness, which begins as a simple rebellion against the impoverishment of taste in our lives, makes it possible to rediscover taste.

the proper place to eat lobster ... is in a lobster shack as close to the sea as possible. There is no menu card because there is nothing else to eat except boiled lobster with melted butter.