Best 40 quotes in «food love quotes» category

Eat, as nobody is watching. Enjoy food like that’s the only thing left in your world.

Electra Gates would never concern herself with how much lard should be in pie dough, I thought; but then, I was not Electra Gates. I wanted pie, something that didn't seem to interest romantic heroines.

I like bread, and I like butter - but I like bread with butter best.

Food is love," I replied. "No, babe, it ain't. But makin' it for the ones you love so they can brag about it is," Take returned.

Feel better, work better.

I'm a fiend when it comes to good pastry, and the French make the best as far as I'm concerned.

I love Pizza thicker, when the crust is thinner!

I make the very best halwa chebakia. With mint tea, or qamar-el-deen- you can take some home to your family." Such an offer cannot be refused. I know this from experience. Years of traveling with my mother have taught me that food is a universal passport. Whatever the constraints of language, culture or geography, food crosses over all boundaries. To offer food is to extend the hand of friendship; to accept is to be accepted into the most closed of communities. I wondered if Francis Reynaud had ever thought of this approach. Knowing him, he hasn't. Reynaud means well, but he isn't the type to buy halwa chebakia or to drink a glass of mint tea in the little café on the corner of the Boulevard P'tit Baghdad. I followed Fatima into the house, making sure to leave my shoes at the door. It was pleasantly cool inside and smelt of frangipani; the shutters closed since midday to guard against the heat of the sun. A door led into the kitchen, from which I caught the mingled scents of anise and almond and rosewater and chickpeas cooked in turmeric, and chopped mint, and toasted cardamom, and those wonderful halwa chebakia, sweet little sesame pastries deep-fried in oil, just small enough to pop into the mouth, flower-shaped and brittle and perfect with a glass of mint tea...

Intet kan være bedre, med søtvarer til er det paradis.

I suppose there are people who can pass up free guacamole, but they're either allergic to avocado or to joyless to live.

I told a friend of mine that my ambition was now to design my lifestyle around food. He made funny remarks about it and laughed it off. But it is what I'm sincerely aiming for.

I was taught how to tie up the loin with a butcher's looping knot and was so excited by the discovery that I went home and practiced. I told Elisa about my achievement. “I tied up everything,” I said. “A leg of lamb, some utensils, a chair. My wife came home, and I tied up her too.” Elisa shook her head. “Get a life,” she said and returned to her task.

Low calories and deliciousness can’t work together; guilt would.

My yogurt was nestled into a bag, waiting to turn into aushak, and all around us were sausages and pastry, lollipops and spices, chicken and cheese. Any world that contained all this, I thought surveying our loot, was a very fine place. I felt reinvigorated, alive, optimistic. The though of getting back to work suddenly seemed like fun.

No food is edible, if you don’t feel like eating Standing is incredible, if you hate sitting

Non ricordo di preciso quando, ma avevo deciso che un giorno sarei diventata una cuoca professionista. Cucinare, nella mia vita, era come un fuggevole arcobaleno che affiorava nella penombra.

The five cells are silky-white within, and are filled with a mass of firm, cream-coloured pulp, containing about three seeds each. This pulp is the eatable part, and its consistence and flavour are indescribable. A rich custard highly flavoured with almonds gives the best general idea of it, but there are occasional wafts of flavour that call to mind cream-cheese, onion-sauce, sherry-wine, and other incongruous dishes. Then there is a rich glutinous smoothness in the pulp which nothing else possesses, but which adds to its delicacy. It is neither acid nor sweet nor juicy; yet it wants neither of these qualities, for it is in itself perfect. It produces no nausea or other bad effect, and the more you eat of it the less you feel inclined to stop. In fact, to eat Durians is a new sensation worth a voyage to the East to experience.

The irony is that food gives me a sense of control, even though it makes me totally out of control. Food is something I can choose, order, have delivered. I sit down, eat, and feel really good in the moment. At its essence, food is nourishing. There is truth in that. The trick is understanding and respecting the line where it crosses over into something unhealthy.

It’s true: A slice of pound cake does wonders to thaw the coldest of days.

No one was the least bit hungry any more, but that is precisly what is so good abut the moment devoted to pastries: they can be only appreciated to their full extent of their subtley when they are not eaten to assauge our hunger, when the orgy of their sugary sweetness is not destined to fll some primary need but to coat our palate with all the benevolence of the world.

Prosperity consists of two things: tea after a meal, and a cigarette after tea.

Something must be done about the food.” Seeing his speculative glance Clare laid down her fork and gave him a warning scowl. “Yes, I’m a good cook, but I will not have time to work in the kitchen. And don’t try to convince me that a mistress also has to cook for her lover.” “I wasn’t thinking of wasting your valuable time in the kitchen.” He smiled mischievously. “But a mistress can do interesting thing with food. Shall I describe them?” “No!” “Another time, perhaps.

STRESSED is DESSERTS spelled backwards. So when you're stressed, just grab a couple of cookies. Everything in the world feels right, when the delicious smelling, buttery soft, sweet melts into each corner of your mouth...oh, and the crunch of the chocolate chips...pure heaven!!

The bond between food and me is like other relationships in my life: complicated, evolving, demanding, and in need of constant work. But together we’ve come so far, moving from my childhood obligation to clean my plate, to a mindless need to fill up, to a truly nourishing and pleasurable exchange. That’s the real reward.

The cakes and pies and casseroles beckoned like gastronomic sirens, and there was no one to lash me to the mast.

There is nothing in the world that good food cannot fix.

I love food and I love my curves.

I love being in bed almost as much as I love food.

I love food and I love living.

I love food, so exercise is important for me.

I love food and I love sex.

As much as I love food, I'd have to save my girls!

I love food, I love eating.

I love food, all food, everything about food. I enjoy going to the market and having what's in front of me - what's fresh, seasonal - tell me what I'm cooking.

I love foods that start in my cheeks and then vibrate up.

The secret of being a great actor is a love of food.

I tried every diet under the sun and none of them worked but, more importantly, they were robbing me of my love of food.

I'm naturally thin, so I don't have to work too hard at it. I love food, but I also love to work out. I think it makes everything work better.

You know I don't care about what I eat. I love food so much, I can't affect the way I eat.

Bad bread wrecks my outlook on life.