Food Quotes - Page 14

• food is never just something to eat.

  Margaret Visser

  Margaret Visser (2010). “Much Depends on Dinner: The Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos of an Ordinary Mea”, p.12, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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 of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel. that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Yoga, Exercise, Smell

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• Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!

  Roald Dahl

  Home Cooking, Cereal, Shaving

  Roald Dahl (2007). “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, p.126, Penguin

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• I love you like a fat kid loves cake!

  Scott Adams

  Love, Valentines Day, Rap

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• While it is undeniably true that people love a surprise, it is equally true that they are seldom pleased to suddenly and without warning happen upon a series of prunes in what they took to be a normal loin of pork.

  Fran Lebowitz

  People, Pork, Warning

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.127, Vintage

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• America is a land of healthy appetites. It is not in the American character to live in order to eat. Rather, the reverse is true. Many try, but just as Americans don't make good gigolos, nether do they make good gourmets.

  Ludwig Bemelmans

  Character, Order, Land

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• If you don't watch your figure, you'll have more figure to watch.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Watches, Figures, Ifs

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• I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.

  Erma Bombeck

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

  Erma Bombeck

  Family, Cereal, Controversial Topics

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• Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans ... are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Cooking, Enemy, Hezbollah

  Anthony Bourdain (2013). “Kitchen Confidential”, p.78, A&C Black

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• Hunger finds no fault with the cookery.

  Henry George Bohn

  Cooking, Faults, Hunger

  Henry George Bohn, John Ray (1893). “A Hand-book of Proverbs: Comprising Ray's Collection of English Proverbs, with His Additions from Foreign Languages”

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• Whenever I was called a gourmet, I suspected I was being accused of something at least slightly unpleasant. But that was before I heard the term "foodie." I am still not sure that a gourmet is a good thing to be, but it must be better than a foodie.

  Mark Kurlansky

  Gourmet, Good Things, Term

  Mark Kurlansky (2013). “Choice Cuts”, p.23, Random House

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• A good eater must be a good man; for a good eater must have a good digestion, and a good digestion depends upon a good conscience.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Men, Cooking, Good Man

  The Young Duke bk. 1, ch. 14 (1831)

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• You sit down at Katz's and you eat the big bowl of pickles and you're eating the pastrami sandwich, and halfway through you say to yourself, I should really wrap this up and save it for tomorrow. But the sandwich is calling you: Remember the taste you just had. So fatty. It's what you want. It's what you are! I've never gotten home from Katz's with a doggie bag in my hand. A pastrami sandwich at Katz's is what's bad and good about food. It's the sacred and the profane.

  Mario Batali

  Home, Past, Hands

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• The army from Asia introduced a foreign luxury to Rome; it was then the meals began to require more dishes and more expenditure . . . the cook, who had up to that time been employed as a slave of low price, become dear: what had been nothing but a metier was elevated to an art.

  Livy

  Art, Army, Rome

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• There was a Young Lady of Poole, Whose soup was excessively cool; So she put it to boil, by the aid of some oil, That ingenious Young Lady of Poole.

  Edward Lear

  Oil, Soup, Aids

  Edward Lear (1994). “Complete Nonsense”, p.133, Wordsworth Editions

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• I want order and taste. A well displayed meal is enhanced one hundred per cent in my eyes.

  Marie-Antoine Careme

  Eye, Order, Cooking

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• Children never lie...I remember my daughter standing in her crib the first time I gave her caviar. I put it on bread. She ate it and said, "Encore, Papa."

  Jacques Pepin

  Daughter, Children, Lying

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• I no longer prepare food or drink with more than one ingredient.

  Cyra McFadden

  Cooking, Ingredients, Drink

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• Fat is a barrier, a bellicose statement to others that, to some, justifies hostility in kind. The world says to the fat person, "Your fatness is an affront to me, so we have the right to treat you as offensively as you appear." Fat is not merely viewed as another type of tissue, but as a diagnostic sign, a personal statement, and a measure of personality. Too little fat and we see you as being antisocial, fearful and sexless. Too much fat and we see you as slothful, stupid, and sexually hung up.

  Albert Ellis

  Stupid, Personality, Tissues

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• An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.

  A. J. Liebling

  Travel, Teaching, Home

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• Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before.

  Michael Pollan

  Agriculture, Division, Company

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