Food Quotes - Page 31

• Take care to chop the onion fine.

  Laura Esquivel

  Cooking, Onions, Care

  Laura Esquivel (1994). “Like water for chocolate: a novel in monthly installments, with recipes, romances, and home remedies”, Anchor

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• Tea at college was served on long tables with an urn at the end of each. Long baguettes of bread, three to a table, were set out with meagre portions of butter and jam; the china was coarse to withstand the schoolboy-clutch and the tea strong. At the Hôtel de Paris I was astonished at the fragility of the cups, the silver teapot, the little triangular savoury sandwiches, the éclairs stuffed with cream.

  Graham Greene

  Strong, College, Paris

  Graham Greene (1966). “The Comedians”

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• The roe of the Russian sturgeon has probably been present at more important international affairs than have all the Russian dignitaries of history combined. This seemingly simple article of diet has taken its place in the world along with pearls, sables, old silver, and Cellini cups.

  James Beard

  Taken, Simple, Cooking

  James Beard (2015). “Hors d'Oeuvre and Canapés”, p.43, Open Road Media

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• The savor of the water mint rejoiceth the heart of men.

  John Gerard

  Heart, Men, Water

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• The way I feel about it is: Beat me or feed me, but don't tease me. It's toy food; who needs it? Serve it to toy people.

  Jeff Smith

  People, Cooking, Needs

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• What comforted me? That is easy. It was a strong cold chicken jelly so very, very thick. My mother's Chinese cook would fix it. He would cook it down, condense it-this broth with all sorts of feet in it, then it would gell into sheer bliss. It kept me alive once for three weeks when I was ill as a child. And I've always craved it since.

  James Beard

  Mother, Strong, Children

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• Wine, one of the noblest cordials in nature.

  John Wesley

  Wine, Cooking, Culinary

  John Wesley (1827). “The Works of the Rev. John Wesley: The twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth, and part of the eighteenth, numbers of his journal”, p.332

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• There is not one kind of food for all men. You must and you will feed those faculties which you exercise. The laborer whose body is weary does not require the same food with the scholar whose brain is weary.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Exercise, Men, Brain

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.132, Jazzybee Verlag

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• A human can be healthy without killing animals for food.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Animal, Meat Consumption, Vegetarianism

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• I think preparing food and feeding people brings nourishment not only to our bodies but to our spirits. Feeding people is a way of loving them, in the same way that feeding ourselves is a way of honoring our own createdness and fragility.

  Shauna Niequist

  Thinking, People, Cooking

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• The disparity between a restaurant's price and food quality rises in direct proportion to the size of the pepper mill.

  Bryan Q. Miller

  Quality, Peppers, Size

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• [Humans] don't just survive; they discover; they create. ... I mean, just look at what they do with food!

  Loic Remy

  Mean, Looks, Humans

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• I can't believe it! A real gourmet kitchen, and I get to watch!

  Loic Remy

  Real, Believe, Kitchen

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• Love and sausage are alike. Can never have enough of either.

  Dean Koontz

  Funny, Sausage, Enough

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• Wine from long habit has become an indispensable for my health

  Thomas Jefferson

  Wine, Long, Cooking

  Thomas Jefferson, J. Jefferson Looney (2004). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 9: 1 September 1815 to 30 April 1816”, p.263, Princeton University Press

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• In taking soup, it is necessary to avoid lifting too much in the spoon, or filling the mouth so full as almost to stop the breath.

  Jean-Baptiste de La Salle

  Cooking, Spoons, Mouths

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• Never eat Chinese food in Oklahoma.

  Bryan Q. Miller

  Oklahoma, Cooking, Chinese

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• It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

  Douglas Adams

  Mistake, Thinking, Cooking

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.422, Pan Macmillan

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• I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?

  Douglas Adams

  Nice, Rain, Thinking

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.279, Pan Macmillan

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• When my mother had to get dinner for 8 she'd just make enough for 16 and only serve half.

  Gracie Allen

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Mom

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• The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small.

  Woody Allen

  Terrible, Portions

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• Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.

  W. H. Auden

  Cooking, Murder, Culinary

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• Acorns were good until bread was found.

  Francis Bacon

  Progress, Bread, Acorns

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  The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

  Lucille Ball

  Happy Birthday, Beauty, Funny Birthday

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• The quickest way to a man's heart is through his chest.

  Roseanne Barr

  Marriage, Sex, Heart

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