Food Quotes

I wouldn't go in a fast food outlet even to use the toilet.

Cooking well doesn't mean cooking fancy.

The diet book is one of those fool-and-money separation devices that seems, like roulette or slot machines, never to lose its power.

I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage, with my books, my family, and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post which any human power can give.

I am still convinced that a good, simple, homemade cookie is preferable to all the store-bought cookies one can find.

Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.

The incarnation began with Jesus and it has never stopped . . . God takes on flesh so that every home becomes a church, every child becomes the Christ-child, and all food and drink become a sacrament. God's many faces are now everywhere, in flesh, tempered and turned down, so that our human eyes can see him.

Nothing rekindles my spirits, gives comfort to my heart and mind, more than a visit to Mississippi... and to be regaled as I often have been, with a platter of fried chicken, field peas, collard greens, fresh corn on the cob, sliced tomatoes with French dressing... and to top it all off with a wedge of freshly baked pecan pie.

It is precisely because no one needs soup, fish, meat, salad, cheese, and dessert at one meal that we so badly need to sit down to them from time to time. It was largesse that made us all; we were not created to fast forever... Enter here, therefore, as a sovereign remedy for the narrowness of our minds and the stinginess of our souls.

To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living.

In case my life should end with the cannibals, I hope they will write on my tombstone, 'We have eaten Dr. Schweitzer. He was good to the end.'

McDonald's being the official restaurant of the Olympics is like smoking being the official medicine of cancer.

I think if I were a woman I'd wear coffee as a perfume.

Do we really want to travel in hermetically sealed popemobiles through the rural provinces of France, Mexico and the Far East, eating only in Hard Rock Cafes and McDonalds? Or do we want to eat without fear, tearing into the local stew, the humble taqueria's mystery meat, the sincerely offered gift of a lightly grilled fish head? I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once.

A hen's egg is, quite simply, a work of art, a masterpiece of design and construction with, it has to be said, brilliant packaging!

It might seem that an egg which has succeeded in being fresh has done all that can reasonably be expected of it.

To buy very good wine nowadays requires only money. To serve it to your guests is a sign of fatigue.

Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages.

All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.

Man is a carnivorous production, And must have meals, at least one meal a day; He cannot live, like woodcocks, upon suction, But, like the shark and tiger, must have prey; Although his anatomical construction Bears vegetables, in a grumbling way, Your laboring people think beyond all question, Beef, veal, and mutton better for digestion.

But beef is rare within these oxless isles; Goat's flesh there is, no doubt, and kid, and mutton; And, when a holiday upon them smiles, A joint upon their barbarous spits they put on.

I went home and took my wife and went to my Cosen Tho. Pepys's and found them just sat down to dinner, which was very good; only the venison pasty was palpable beef, which was not handsome.

A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

If there's anything I like better than honey and ketchup, it's baloney and whipped cream --- and we haven't got any!

Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.

As the days grow short, some faces grow long. But not mine. Every autumn, when the wind turns cold and darkness comes early, I am suddenly happy. It's time to start making soup again.

the seat of the greatest patriotic loyalties is in the stomach. Long after giving up all attachment to the land of his birth, the naturalized American citizen holds fast to the food of his parents.

The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today.

Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup!

Why, you might just as well say that, I see what I eat, is the same as, I eat what I see.

Wine is sunlight, held together by water.

Wine is bottled poetry.

Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.

There cannot be good living where there is not good drinking.

And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.

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

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

Fill with mingled cream and amber, I will drain that glass again. Such hilarious visions clamber Through the chamber of my brain — Quaintest thoughts — queerest fancies Come to life and fade away; What care I how time advances? I am drinking ale today.

Here's to alcohol: the cause of, and answer to, all of life's problems.

When the wine goes in, strange things come out.

I like liquor - its taste and its effects - and that is just the reason why I never drink it.

What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking!

Although I have been prevented by outward circumstances from observing a strictly vegetarian diet, I have long been an adherent to the cause in principle. Besides agreeing with the aims of vegetarianism for aesthetic and moral reasons, it is my view that a vegetarian manner of living by its purely physical effect on the human temperament would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

To get enough to eat was regarded as an achievement. To get drunk was a victory.

Taking food alone tends to make one hard and coarse. Those accustomed to it must lead a Spartan life if they are not to go downhill. Hermits have observed, if for only this reason, a frugal diet. For it is only in company that eating is done justice; food must be divided and distributed if it is to be well received.

In America, I would say New York and New Orleans are the two most interesting food towns. In New Orleans, they don't have a bad deli. There's no mediocrity accepted.

Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.

The 12-step chocolate program: NEVER BE MORE THAN 12 STEPS AWAY FROM CHOCOLATE!