Best 2531 quotes in «food quotes» category

Noodles are not only amusing but delicious.

No one ever went to their deathbed saying, 'You know, I wish I'd eaten more rice cakes.

No poems can please long or live that are written by water drinkers.

Nothing helps scenery like bacon and eggs.

Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.

Nothing spoils lunch any quicker than a rogue meatball rampaging through your spaghetti.

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.

Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.

Not responding is a response - we are equally responsible for what we don't do.

Numbers written on restaurant bills within the confines of restaurants do not follow the same mathematical laws as numbers written on any other pieces of paper in any other parts of the Universe. This single fact took the scientific world by storm.

Oats. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.

Of all the items on the menu, soup is that which exacts the most delicate perfection and the strictest attention.

Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic - that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas. and that of dust, soft and warm and caressing like tweed.

Of course I made many boo-boos. At first this broke my heart, but then I came to understand that learning how to fix one's mistakes, or live with them, was an important part of becoming a cook.

Of all smells, bread; of all tastes, salt.

Of plants tomatoes seemed the most human, eager and fragile and prone to rot.

Of course we do not live in order to eat, but it is not really true to say that we eat in order to live; we eat because we are hungry. Desire has no further intentions behind it... it is a good will.

Older women are like aging strudels - the crust may not be so lovely, but the filling has come at last into its own.

Omit and substitute! That's how recipes should be written. Please don't ever get so hung up on published recipes that you forget that you can omit and substitute.

One man's Poison Ivy is another Fellow's Spinach.

Once you become an elaborate and well-developed culture, anything from Rome or the Etruscans, for that matter, the food starts to become a representation of what the culture is. When the food can transcend being just fuel, that's when you start to see these different permutations.

One may live without bread, not without roses.

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

One of these nuts is a meal for a man, both meat and drink.

One of the problems with writing a cookbook is that recipes exist in the moment.

One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.

One of the greatest pleasures of my life has been that I have never stopped learning about Good Cooking and Good Food

One of the most disturbing ways that climate change is already playing out is through what ecologists call "mismatch" or "mistiming." This is the process whereby warming causes animals to fall out of step with a critical food source, particularly at breeding times, when a failure to find enough food can lead to rapid population losses.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

One sits the whole day at the desk and appetite is standing next to me. "Away with you," I say. But Comrade Appetite does not budge from the spot.

One whiff of a savory aromatic soup and appetites come to attention. The steaming fragrance of a tempting soup is a prelude to the goodness to come. An inspired soup puts family and guests in a receptive mood for enjoying the rest of the menu.

One who goes after the taste of the tongue does not get to know the taste of the heart.

Onions can make even Heirs and Widows weep.

On how to make an egg roll: "Roll it nice and tight like a blunt.

On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

[On peanut M&Ms:] It is the eggness of them. A shell, chocolate placenta, proteiny peanut baby. Life shape, birth shape, cell shape, protoplasmic-ooze shape. A shape that calls straight through civilization to our reptilian brains.

On the other hand, a flaccid, moping, debauched mollusc, tired from too much love and loose-nerved from general world conditions, can be a shameful thing served raw upon the shell.

On Thanksgiving, you realize you're living in a modern world. Millions of turkeys baste themselves in millions of ovens that clean themselves.

Organic farming appealed to me because it involved searching for and discovering nature's pathways, as opposed to the formulaic approach of chemical farming. The appeal of organic farming is boundless; this mountain has no top, this river has no end.

Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.

Over the years since I left home, I have kept thinking about the people I grew up with and about our way of life. I realize how much the bond that held us had to do with food.

Our relationship with food - how, when, what and why we eat - is a direct expression of our underlying feelings, thoughts and beliefs about ourselves. It has to do with stances we take that get reflected not only in our relationship with food, but in all our relationships. It just so happens that the relationship with food causes enough conflict, grief, shame and hurt that we’re willing to look at it.

Outside every fat man there is an even fatter man trying to close in.

OYSTER, n. A slimy, gobby shellfish which civilization gives men the hardihood to eat without removing its entrails! The shells are sometimes given to the poor.

Peace begins in the kitchens and pantries, gardens and backyards, where our food is grown and prepared. The energies of nature and the infinite universe are absorbed through the foods we eat and are transmuted into our thoughts and actions.

Parla Come Mangi' --It is a common way to say 'be simple', 'don't try to be rhetorical' literaly: 'speak the way you eat

People are cooking less but obsessing about it more.

People want honest, flavourful food, not some show-off meal that takes days to prepare.