Food Quotes - Page 13

• Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

  Michael Pollan

  Eating Well, Dieting, Too Much

  Michael Pollan (2008). “In Defence of Food: The Myth of Nutrition and the Pleasures of Eating”, Penguin UK

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• Very well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Eggplant, Promise, Cholera

  "Love in the Time of Cholera". Book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, www.theguardian.com. 1985.

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• As a rule they will refuse even to sample a foreign dish, they regard such things as garlic and olive oil with disgust, life is unliveable to them unless they have tea and puddings.

  George Orwell

  Oil, Cooking, Tea

  George Orwell (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: As I please, 1943-1945”

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• The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Cooking, Culinary, Cooks

  Reginald (1904) "Reginald on Besetting Sins"

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• Eating chicken without skin is like riding a bike without wheels

  Michael Symon

  Skins, Riding, Wheels

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• The best fish in the world are of course those one catches oneself.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Fishing, Cooking, World

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1996). “Cross Creek Cookery”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

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• I love the Chinese words for greeting: not strictly 'Hello' but 'Have you eaten yet?

  Rick Stein

  Chinese, Hello, Greetings

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• Appetite comes with eating.

  Francois Rabelais

  Cooking, Desire, Eating

  Francois Rabelais (2014). “Gargantua and Pantagruel”, p.22, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Scallops are expensive, so they should be treated with some class. But then, I suppose that every creature that gives his life for our table should be treated with class.

  Jeff Smith

  Class, Giving, Tables

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• They say fish should swim thrice * * * first it should swim in the sea (do you mind me?) then it should swim in butter, and at last, sirrah, it should swim in good claret.

  Jonathan Swift

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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• Everybody loves to have things which please the palate put in their way, without trouble or preparation.

  Samuel Johnson

  Cooking, Preparation, Way

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1866). “The Life of Samuel Johnson”, p.125

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• Moderation. Small helpings. Sample a little bit of everything. These are the secrets of happiness and good health.

  Julia Child

  Inspirational, Happiness, Secret

  "Julia Child: What I've Learned". Interview with Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. June 2001.

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• A complete lack of caution is perhaps one of the true signs of a real gourmet.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Real, Cooking, Gourmet

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.624, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Since we have a good loaf, let us not look for cheesecakes.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Looks, Cheesecake

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1818). “Don Quixote de la Mancha,3”, p.149

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• Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Taste, Digestion

  'Richard II' (1595) act 1, sc. 3, l. 236

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• Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Hurt, Drinking, Wine

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• At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Inspirational, Clever, Happy New Year

  Writer's Notebook (1949) p. 17 (written in 1896)

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• You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Baseball, Cutting

  Twitter post from Feb 9, 2018

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

  Stonewall Jackson

  Drinking, Alcohol, Civil War

  Quoted by William Jones in The Life and Letters of Robert Edward Lee, Soldier and Man p. 443

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• If the divine creator has taken pains to give us delicious and exquisite things to eat, the least we can do is prepare them well and serve them with ceremony.

  Fernand Point

  Pain, Taken, Giving

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• I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Reason, Deny, Belly

  1850 Representative Men,'Montaigne; or, The Skeptic'.

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• Ordinary folk prefer familiar tastes - they'd sooner eat the same things all the time - but a gourmet would sample a fried park bench just to know how it tastes.

  Walter Moers

  Gourmet, Ordinary, Benches

  Walter Moers (2009). “The Alchemaster's Apprentice: A Novel”, p.38, The Overlook Press

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• For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable.

  Gloria Steinem

  Deserving It, Feminist, May

  Gloria Steinem (2017). “Passion, Politics, and Everyday Activism: Collected Essays: Moving Beyond Words; Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions; and Revolution from Within”, p.855, Open Road Media

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• And I find chopsticks frankly distressing. Am I alone in thinking it odd that a people ingenious enough to invent paper, gunpowder, kites and any number of other useful objects, and who have a noble history extending back 3,000 years haven't yet worked out that a pair of knitting needles is no way to capture food?

  Bill Bryson

  Thinking, Knitting Needles, Numbers

  Bill Bryson (2010). “Notes From A Small Island: Journey Through Britain”, p.145, Random House

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• Where do you go to get anorexia?

  Shelley Winters

  Inspiring, Anorexia, Cooking

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