Food Quotes

Elsewhere the paper notes that vegetarians and vegans (including athletes) 'meet and exceed requirements' for protein. And, to render the whole we-should-worry-about-getting-enough-protein-and-therefore-eat-meat idea even more useless, other data suggests that excess animal protein intake is linked with osteoporosis, kidney disease, calcium stones in the urinary tract, and some cancers. Despite some persistent confusion, it is clear that vegetarians and vegans tend to have more optimal protein consumption than omnivores.

~ Jonathan Safran Foer

Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.

~ Anthony Trollope

New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.

~ Mark Twain

While it is true that many people simply can't afford to pay more for food, either in money or time or both, many more of us can. After all, just in the last decade or two we've somehow found the time in the day to spend several hours on the internet and the money in the budget not only to pay for broadband service, but to cover a second phone bill and a new monthly bill for television, formerly free. For the majority of Americans, spending more for better food is less a matter of ability than priority. p.187

~ Michael Pollan

I think preparing food and feeding people brings nourishment not only to our bodies but to our spirits. Feeding people is a way of loving them, in the same way that feeding ourselves is a way of honoring our own createdness and fragility.

~ Shauna Niequist

Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.

~ Benjamin Franklin

Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

~ Fran Lebowitz

But if you're gonna dine with them cannibalsSooner or later, darling, you're gonna get eaten . . .

~ Nick Cave

Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter-faction, the vegans, are a persistent irritant to any chef worth a damn. To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living. Vegetarians are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit, an affront to all I stand for, the pure enjoyment of food. The body, these waterheads imagine, is a temple that should not be polluted by animal protein. It's healthier, they insist, though every vegetarian waiter I've worked with is brought down by any rumor of a cold. Oh, I'll accomodate them, I'll rummage around for something to feed them, for a 'vegetarian plate', if called on to do so. Fourteen dollars for a few slices of grilled eggplant and zucchini suits my food cost fine.

~ Anthony Bourdain

Ironically, the utterly unselective omnivore -- I'm easy; I'll eat anything -- can appear more socially sensitive than the individual who tries to eat in a way that is good for society.

~ Jonathan Safran Foer

We eat the year away. We eat the spring and the summer and the fall. We wait for something to grow and then we eat it.

~ Shirley Jackson

Very simply, we subsidize high-fructose corn syrup in this country, but not carrots. While the surgeon general is raising alarms over the epidemic of obesity, the president is signing farm bills designed to keep the river of cheap corn flowing, guaranteeing that the cheapest calories in the supermarket will continue to be the unhealthiest.

~ Michael Pollan

Thanks cows. I appreciate your tastiness.

~ Craig Ferguson

My favorite animal is steak.

~ Fran Lebowitz

Simple,' Tummeler replied.' Blueberries is one of the great forces o'good in the world.' How do you figure that?' said Charles. Well,' said Tummeler, 'have you ever seen a troll, or a Wendigo, or,' he shuddered, 'a Shadow-Born ever eating a blueberry pie?' No,' Charles admitted. There y'go,' said Tummeler. It's cause they can't stand the goodness in it.' Can't argue with you there,' said Charles. Foods is good and evil, just like people, or badgers, or even scowlers.' Evil food?' said Charles. Parsnips,' said Tummeler, 'Them's as evil as they come.

~ James A. Owen

Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: Frequently there must be a beverage.

~ Woody Allen

He was chugging brown pop from a can Jack had handed him while he stuffed nacho cheese Doritos in his face. I was glad to see he looked lots better, almost completely like himself, which proves Doritos and brown pop really are health foods.

~ P.c. Cast

There was something sort of bleak about her tone, rather as if she had swallowed an east wind. This I took to be due to the fact that she probably hadn't breakfasted. It's only after a bit of breakfast that I'm able to regard the world with that sunny cheeriness which makes a fellow the universal favourite. I'm never much of a lad till I've engulfed an egg or two and a beaker of coffee.I suppose you haven't breakfasted?I have not yet breakfasted.Won't you have an egg or something? Or a sausage or something? Or something?No, thank you.She spoke as if she belonged to an anti-sausage league or a league for the suppression of eggs. There was a bit of silence.

~ P.g. Wodehouse

What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?

~ Lin Yutang

I'm pretty sure that eating chocolate keeps wrinkles away because I have never seen a 10 year old with a Hershey bar and crows feet.

~ Amy Neftzger

We know, for instance, that there is a direct, inverse relationship between frequency of family meals and social problems. Bluntly stated, members of families who eat together regularly are statistically less likely to stick up liquor stores, blow up meth labs, give birth to crack babies, commit suicide, or make donkey porn. If Little Timmy had just had more meatloaf, he might not have grown up to fill chest freezers with Cub Scout parts.

~ Anthony Bourdain

I'm starved. -JuliHow can you be starved? You just ate a huge bowl of popcorn. -ElspethPopcorn isn't food, it's popcorn. -Vicki

~ Lynsay Sands

The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight...[Breadmaking is] one of those almost hypnotic businesses, like a dance from some ancient ceremony. It leaves you filled with one of the world's sweetest smells... there is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour ofmeditation in a music-throbbing chapel. that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread.

~ M.f.k. Fisher

Anyone who thinks they're too grown up or too sophisticated to eat caramel corn, is not invited to my house for dinner

~ Ruth Reichl

When chickens get to live like chickens, they'll taste like chickens, too.

~ Michael Pollan

Food is a gift and should be treated reverentially--romanced and ritualized and seasoned with memory.

~ Chris Bohjalian

There is no technique, there is just the way to do it.Now, are we going to measure or are we going to cook?

~ Frances Mayes

Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.

~ Anthony Bourdain

Someone who eats pancakes and jam can't be so awfully dangerous. You can talk to him.

~ Tove Jansson

Please go to this pizzeria. Order the margherita pizza with double mozzarella. If you do not eat this pizza when you are in Naples, please lie to me and tell me that you did.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

It's salt. Why don't you sprinkle some on me, honey? Aren't I just good enough to eat?

~ Grant Morrison

I lurched away from the table after a few hours feeling like Elvis in Vegas - fat, drugged, and completely out of it.

~ Anthony Bourdain

I will not eat them in a house, i will not eat them with a mouse,i will not eat them in a box i will not eat them with a fox, i will not eat them here of there i will not eat them anywhere, I do not like green eggs and ham i do not like them sam i am

~ Dr. Seuss

Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liverslices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencods' roes. Most of all he liked grilled mutton kidneys which gave to his palate a fine tang of faintly scented urine.

~ James Joyce

After a full belly all is poetry.

~ Frank Mccourt

A human being is primarily a bag for putting food into; the other functions and faculties may be more godlike, but in point of time they come afterwards. A man dies and is buried, and all his words and actions are forgotten, but the food he has eaten lives after him in the sound or rotten bones of his children. I think it could be plausibly argued that changes of diet are more important than changes of dynasty or even of religion....Yet it is curious how seldom the all-importance of food is recognized. You see statues everywhere to politicians, poets, bishops, but none to cooks or bacon-curers or market gardeners.

~ George Orwell

I wondered what you'd have on the side with a plate of Deep Fried Anxiety. Pickles? Coleslaw? Potato-strychnine mash?

~ Robin Mckinley

When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.

~ Agatha Christie

To eat well in England you should have breakfast three times a day.

~ W. Somerset Maugham

She spoke of evenings in the country making popcorn on the porch. Once this would have gladdened my heart but because her heart was not glad when she said it I knew there was nothing in it but the idea of what one should do.

~ Jack Kerouac