Food Quotes - Page 27

• I eat to live, to serve, and also, if it so happens, to enjoy, but I do not eat for the sake of enjoyment.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Sake, Enjoy, Happens

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• The winter evening settles down
  With smell of steaks in passageways.

  T. S. Eliot

  Winter, Smell, Evening

  "Preludes" l. 1 (1917)

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• Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup!

  Lewis Carroll

  Beautiful, Soup, Evening

  1865 Song of the Mock Turtle. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, ch.10.

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• Yes, cider and tinned salmon are the staple diet of the agricultural classes.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Class, Salmon, Cider

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• Any two meals at a boarding-house are together less than two square meals.

  Stephen Leacock

  Squares, Two, House

  Stephen Leacock (2014). “Literary Lapses”, p.18, The Floating Press

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• People are cooking less but obsessing about it more.

  Dougie Poynter

  People, Cooking, Culinary

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• The British hamburger thus symbolised, with savage neatness, the country's failure to provide its ordinary people with food which did anything more for them than sustain life.

  Clive James

  Country, People, Ordinary

  Clive James (2013). “The Complete Unreliable Memoirs”, p.294, Pan Macmillan

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• Virtue, like wholesome food, is better than poisons, however corrected.

  David Hume

  Poison, Virtue, Wholesome Food

  David Hume (1826). “The philosophical works of David Hume”, p.314

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

  Christopher Hitchens

  Book, Machines, Roulette

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• While the demand for organic food outstrips supply, we happen to know that 77 percent of consumers don't want genetically engineered crops grown in this country. Consumers can choose whether or not to buy organic produce. Genetically modified ingredients will deny us choice in the long run.

  Prince Charles

  Running, Country, Long

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• I'm allergic to chemicals in food so I eat only organic foods.

  Carol Channing

  Chemicals, Organic Food, Allergic

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• Prose and poetry are as different as food and drink.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Prose And Poetry, Different, Drink

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• The office of the prince and that of the writer are defined and assigned as follows: the nobleman gives rank to the written work,the writer provides food for the prince.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Giving, Office, Literature

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• Compilers resemble gluttonous eaters who devour excessive quantities of healthy food just to excrete them as refuse.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Healthy, Waste, Refuse

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• Illness isn't the only thing that spoils the appetite.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Illness, Appetite, Spoil

  A Month in the Country Act IV (transl. Constance Garnett)

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• If you start giving your kids anxiety about food, it's going to last a lifetime. Moms have to lead by example. Don't say, "Oh, my jeans don't fit," or "Oh, I was bad." No diets. Nothing like that.

  Bethenny Frankel

  Family, Mom, Wisdom

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• Food is so fundamental, more so than sexuality, aggression, or learning, that it is astounding to realize the neglect of food and eating in depth psychology.

  James Hillman

  Psychology, Fundamentals, Depth

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

  Jonny Wilkinson

  Use, Toilets, Outlets

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• I'm a man more dined against than dining.

  Maurice Bowra

  Men, Dining

  In John Betjeman 'Summoned by Bells' (1960) ch. 9.

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• New York waiters, probably the surliest in the Western world . . . are better images of their city than that journalistic favorite the taxi driver.

  Alan Brien

  New York, Cities, World

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• ...a mind, if given only the best food never craves any other.

  Rheta Childe Dorr

  Reading, Mind, Given

  Rheta Childe Dorr (1980). “A woman of fifty”, Ayer Co Pub

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• When I develop my recipes I always look for ways to create what I call the Big Taste. While I enjoy eating simple grilled foods, what interests me when I cook are dishes with a taste that is fully dimensional.

  Paula Wolfert

  Simple, Looks, Recipes

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• In Ethiopia, where I was born, all the cooks are women. When I grew up in Sweden, my mom and my grandmother did predominantly all the cooking. Then I changed to restaurant kitchens, where all of a sudden there were just more men than women, and I always thought that was weird.

  Marcus Samuelsson

  Mom, Grandmother, Men

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• Health foods make promises that only the Second Coming could fulfill.

  Mason Cooley

  Promise, Eating, Health Food

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• We may eat dinner together, but everyone puts the food in his own mouth.

  Mason Cooley

  Together, Mouths, May

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