Best 2531 quotes in «food quotes» category

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

We never repent of having eaten too little.

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

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

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

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

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

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 drinking? A mere pause from thinking!

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?

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.

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

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

Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine.

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 ponder my mind I consistently find It is glued On food.

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.

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

When I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and it is all one.

When it comes to food, there are two large categories of eaters, those who do not worry about what they eat but should, and those who do worry about what they eat but should not.

When I was a young fellow I was knocked down plenty. I wanted to stay down, but I couldn't. I had to collect the two dollars for winning or go hungry. I had to get up. I was one of those hungry fighters. You could have hit me on the chin with a sledgehammer for five dollars. When you haven't eaten for two days you'll understand.

When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can't eat money.

When my mother had to get dinner for 8 she'd just make enough for 16 and only serve half.

When there are starving people in the world, it seems wrong that so many of us Americans eat as much for entertainment as for nourishment.

When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.

When the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface

When the waitress puts the dinner on the table, the old men look at the dinner. The young men look at the waitress.

When the wine goes in, strange things come out.

When the waitress asked if I wanted my pizza cut into four or eight slices, I said, 'Four. I don't think I can eat eight.'

When there is very little else left to believe in, one can still believe in an honest loaf of fragrant, home-baked bread.

When the wine is in, the wit is out.

When we develop reverence for food and the miracle of transformation inherent in it, just the simple act of eating creates a ritual of celebration.

When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.

When we lose, I eat. When we win, I eat. I also eat when we're rained out.

When you become a good cook, you become a good craftsman, first. You repeat and repeat and repeat until your hands know how to move without thinking about it.

When you find a waiter who is a waiter and not an actor, writer, musician or poet, you've found a jewel.

"When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last, "what's the first thing you say to yourself?" "What's for breakfast?" said Pooh. "What do you say, Piglet?" "I say, I wonder what's going to happen exciting today?" said Piglet . Pooh nodded thoughtfully. "It's the same thing," he said. "What's that?" the Unbeliever asked. "Wisdom from the Western Taoist,"I said. "It sounds like something from Winnie-the-Pooh," he said. "It is," I said. "That's not about Taoism," he said. "Oh, yes it is," I said.

While eating, our attention should not be focused just on the taste. Imagine our chosen deity or guru is present within us and that we are feeding Him. This will turn eating into a spiritual practice.