Food Quotes - Page 30

• They put arsenic in his meat And stared aghast to watch him eat; They poured strychnine in his cup And shook to see him drink it up.

  A. E. Housman

  Cooking, Meat, Arsenic

  A. E. Housman (2012). “A Shropshire Lad”, p.43, Courier Corporation

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• This has got to be the most expensive food ever laminated.

  Marian Burros

  Cooking, Culinary, Expensive

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• This [the movie Babe] is the way Americans want to think of pigs. Real-life 'Babes' see no sun in their limited lives, with no hay to lie on, no mud to roll in. The sows live in tiny cages, so narrow they can't even turn around. They live over metal grates, and their waste is pushed through slats beneath them and flushed into huge pits.

  Morley Safer

  Real, Lying, Thinking

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• To me, peanut butter is the breakfast of champions!

  Greg Louganis

  Cooking, Champion, Peanut Butter

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• TRICHINOSIS, n. The pig's reply to proponents of porcophagy.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Pigs, Cooking, Culinary

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.229, University of Georgia Press

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• Velveeta: you can eat it - or wax your car with it!

  Judy Garland

  Car, Cooking, Culinary

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• We (the Chinese) eat food for its texture, the elastic or crisp effect it has on our teeth, as well as for fragrance, flavor and color.

  Lin Yutang

  Color, Chinese, Teeth

  Yutang Lin (1939). “My country and my people”

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• What wondrous life is this I lead! Ripe apples drop about my head.

  Andrew Marvell

  Apples, Cooking, Life Is

  'The Garden' (1681) st. 5

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• What you eat and drink is 50 percent of life.

  Gerard Depardieu

  Cooking, Drink, Culinary

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• When you become a good cook, you become a good craftsman, first. You repeat and repeat and repeat until your hands know how to move without thinking about it.

  Jacques Pepin

  Moving, Thinking, Hands

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

  Lewis Carroll

  Cooking, Might, Culinary

  'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' (1865) ch. 7

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• Wine is a splendid thing in and of itself, but it is nonetheless proper to examine the high nutritional and hygienic values of wine from a scientific point of view. We are convinced that scientists will thus perform a service to mankind, since at the same time they will help determine the measure beyond which its use is a misuse for all creation.

  Pope Pius XII

  Wine, Views, Cooking

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• Wine was given us by God, not that we might be drunken, but that we might be sober. It is the best medicine when it has the best moderation to direct it. Wine was given to restore the body's weakness, not to overturn the soul's strength.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Wine, Medicine, Cooking

  Saint Augustine (Bishop of Hippo.), Saint John Chrysostom (1983). “A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church”

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• You are offered a piece of bread and butter that feels like a damp handkerchief and sometimes, when cucumber is added to it, like a wet one.

  Compton Mackenzie

  Cooking, Pieces, Cucumbers

  'Vestal Fire' (1927) bk. 1, ch. 3

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• Unlike music or poetry or painting, food rouses no response in passionate and emotional youth. Only when the surge of the blood is quieted does gastronomy come into its own with philosophy and theology and the sterner delights of the mind.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Philosophy, Emotional, Blood

  Dorothy L Sayers (2009). “The Documents in the Case”, p.39, Hachette UK

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• I will never eat fish eyeballs, and I do not want to taste anything commonly kept as a house pet, but otherwise I am a cinch to feed.

  Laurie Colwin

  House, Pet, Want

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• The best way to eat crabs, as everyone knows, is off newspaper at a large table with a large number of people.

  Laurie Colwin

  Numbers, People, Way

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• It is possible to eat English piecrust, whatever you may think at first. The English eat it, and when they stand up and walk away, they are hardly bent over at all.

  Margaret Halsey

  Thinking, Firsts, England

  Margaret Halsey (1938). “With Malice Toward Some”

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• I am more than ever convinced that what we eat today is what we are tomorrow.

  Helena Rubinstein

  Today, Tomorrow, Eating

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• for the first time I tasted this tropical fruit, which people here are so fond of. ... I could have fancied I was biting into soap. I have a notion that we shall not become very good friends, the banana and I.

  Fredrika Bremer

  Good Friend, People, Soap

  Fredrika Bremer, Adolph Benson, Carrie Catt (2007). “America of the Fifties: Letters of Fredrika Bremer”, p.98, Applewood Books

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• it still astounds me, after forty years, that there is no good bread between Chicago and San Francisco.

  Jane Smiley

  Years, San Francisco, Chicago

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• Some people have family crests, lions, tigers, unicorns, elephants - a whole menagerie - and if my family had a crest, you know what would be on it? A blintze. I mean it. All the good things in my life are measured in blintzes because by us it's not a party if there isn't a blintze.

  Gertrude Berg

  Family, Party, Mean

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• Borscht is more than a soup, it's a weather vane. When my family says they want hot borscht I know winter is coming, and when they want cold borscht I know how far can spring be behind?

  Gertrude Berg

  Spring, Winter, Weather

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• When it comes to food, there are two large categories of eaters, those who do not worry about what they eat but should, and those who do worry about what they eat but should not.

  Carol Tavris

  Two, Worry, Eating

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• Food binds us to our roots as strongly as any song or poem. Many of us have learned more about our ancestors in the kitchen than we ever will from a book.

  Anna Thomas

  Song, Book, Roots

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