Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.
If we're not willing to settle for junk living, we certainly shouldn't settle for junk food.
Soup is just a way of screwing you out of a meal.
In department stores, so much kitchen equipment is bought indiscriminately by people who just come in for men's underwear.
We may live without friends; we may live without books But civilized men cannot live without cooks.
Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.
The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me and I to them.
Spaghetti can be eaten most successfully if you inhale it like a vacuum cleaner.
As for butter versus margarine, I trust cows more than chemists.
No man under forty can be dignified with the title of gourmet.
High-tech tomatoes. Mysterious milk. Supersquash. Are we supposed to eat this stuff? Or is it going to eat us?
The way you cut your meat reflects the way you live.
Civilised adults do not take apple juice with dinner.
Waffles are like pancakes with syrup traps
My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.
Life itself is the proper binge.
I won't eat anything green.
I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.
One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.
Make food a very incidental part of your life by filling your life so full of meaningful things that you'll hardly have time to think about food.
You can never have enough garlic. With enough garlic, you can eat The New York Times.
Wait. Why am I thinking about Krispy Kremes? We’re supposed to be exercising.
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 seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others. So it happens that when I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and the hunger for it… and then the warmth and richness and fine reality of hunger satisfied… and it is all one.
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