Food Quotes

We’re all just ingredients. What matters is the grace with which you cook the meal.

~ Erica Bauermeister

I had a dream about you. The sky was green and the ground was blue. You spoke a song and I sang my thoughts. We ate lemonade and drank cookies. It all made perfect sense.

~ Melody Sohayegh

To experience biophilia is to love a diversity that, as limitless as it is fragile, both haunts us and fills us with hope.

~ Adam Leith Gollner

It has long been my motto that if you cannot get your act together... then the very least you can do is try to make your act entertaining.

~ Becky Johnson

Daddy, how come in Kansas City the bagels taste like just round bread?

~ Calvin Trillin

Almonds. Apricots. Avocadoes. Some peaches I don't know. Grapefruit. Lemones. Probably oranges.

~ Jane Smiley

Food has been my career, my hobby, and, it must be said, my escape.

~ Nigel Slater

Feast or famine. My plate is suddenly full.

~ David Wong Louie

Now that we know about his indigestion, we can torture him with cake.

~ Kristin Cashore

In the newspapers the row about the prospect of genetically modified food raged on, and yet here were consumers effectively demanding lambs with four back legs.

~ Rose Prince

It's frustrating to witness how popular Fairtrade bananas, coffee and tea have become with shoppers and supermarkets while plenty of unfair trade goes on, largely unnoticed, in our own back yard.

~ Rose Prince

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

~ Ann Wigmore

It's really not that hard to put food on the table if that's what you decide to do.

~ Jeannette Walls

For a moment, or a second, the pinched expressions of the cynical, world-weary, throat-cutting, miserable bastards we've all had to become disappears, when we're confronted with something as simple as a plate of food.

~ Anthony Bourdain

Pride is all very well, but a sausage is a sausage.

~ Terry Pratchett

I don't drink coffee I take tea my dearI like my toast done on one sid

~ Sting

he who feeds you, controls you

~ Thomas Sankara

There ain't no point in making soup unless others eat it. Soup needs another mouth to taste it, another heart to be warmed by it.

~ Kate Dicamillo

Food is a product of supply and demand, so try to figure out where the supplies are fresh, the suppliers are creative, and the demanders are informed.

~ Tyler Cowen

Life is too short not to eat raw and it's even shorter if you don't.

~ Marie Sarantakis

It appeals to the higher nature of the self to put aside food which once lived - I do not consider myself food, why should I ask all other creatures to consider themselves so?

~ Catherynne M. Valente

So much about life in a global economy feels as though it has passed beyond the individual's control--what happens to our jobs, to the prices at the gas station, to the vote in the legislature. But somehow food still feels a little different. We can still decide, every day, what we're going to put into our bodies, what sort of food chain we want to participate in. We can, in other words, reject the industrial omelet on offer and decide to eat another.

~ Michael Pollan

Before you rush off trying to see everything you can, educate yourself.

~ Jonathan Safran Foer

It's all very Italian (and decidedly un-American): to insist that doing the right thing is the most pleasurable thing, and that the act of consumption might be an act of addition rather than subtraction.

~ Michael Pollan

We have to remember that not every action taken to solve a problem will be free of unforeseen consequences. No matter how good our intentions.

~ Rachel Fischer

The lesson about food is that the most predictable and the most orderly outcomes are always not the best. They are just easier to describe. Fads are orderly. Food carts and fires aren't. Feeding the world could be a delicious mess, full of diverse flavors and sometimes good old-fashioned smoke.

~ Tyler Cowen

Dog's just want to sniff an ass and eat some food.

~ Ice-T

[If you hear a] story about how eating sausage leads to anal cancer, you will be skeptical, because it has never happened to anyone you know, and sausage, after all, is delicious.

~ David Mcraney

If it has got four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.

~ Philip

Benton had a strong interest in helping to ensure that Warren's home life wasn't greatly disturbed: his wife was Cornish, and that morning Warren had arrived with six Cornish pasties of remarkable flavour and succulence.

~ P.d. James

That eating should be foremost about bodily health is a relatively new and, I think, destructive idea-destructive not just the pleasure of eating, which would be bad enough, but paradoxically of our health as well. Indeed, no people on earth worry more about the health consequences of their food choices than we Americans-and no people suffer from as many diet-related problems. We are becoming a nation of orthorexics: people with an unhealthy obsession with healthy eating.

~ Michael Pollan

Food security is not in the supermarket. It's not in the government. It's not at the emergency services division. True food security is the historical normalcy of packing it in during the abundant times, building that in-house larder, and resting easy knowing that our little ones are not dependent on next week's farmers' market or the electronic cashiers at the supermarket.

~ Joel Salatin

That many if not most people...who want fresh leafy greens in January buy them at the supermarket after they've been bleached and plastic-bag shipped from California or beyond is not a tribute to modern technology, it's an unprecedented abdication of personal responsibility and a ubiquitous benchmark of abnormality.

~ Joel Salatin

If I had to narrow my choice of meats down to one for the rest of my life, I am quite certain that meat would be pork.

~ James Beard

Birthday Soup is good to eat, but not as good as Birthday Cake.

~ Else Holmelund Minarik

After I was diagnosed with celiac disease, I said yes to food, with great enthusiasm. . . . I vowed to taste everything I could eat, rather than focusing on what I could not.

~ Shauna James Ahern

…food is capable of feeding far more than a rumbling stomach. Food is life; our well-being demands it. Food is art and magic; it evokes emotion and colors memory, and in skilled hands, meals become greater than the sum of their ingredients. Food is self-evident; plucked right from the ground or vine or sea, its power to delight is immediate. Food is discovery; finding an untried spice or cuisine is for me like uncovering a new element. Food is evolution; how we interpret it remains ever fluid. Food is humanitarian: sharing it bridges cultures, making friends of strangers pleasantly surprised to learn how much common ground they ultimately share.

~ Anthony Beal

I was so mad, I reached into the drawer for her fake sushi eraser and put it in my pocket. Serves her right for being such a big, fat, Eggo-scarfing liar.

~ Sarah Darer Littman

TV cookery is very like internet porn - the overwhelming majority of its audience will never ever get to act out what's happening on screen.

~ Skint Foodie

In my opinion, if there is one extremely legitimate use for petroleum besides running wood chippers and front-end loaders to handle compost, it's making plastic for season extension. It parks many of the trucks [for cross-country produce transportation]. With the trucks parked, greenhouses, tall tunnels, and more seasonal, localized eating, can we feed ourselves? We still have to answer that burning question.

~ Joel Salatin