Food Quotes - Page 32

• If you're using first-class land for biofuels, then you're competing with the growing of food. And so you're actually spiking food prices by moving energy production into agriculture.

  Bill Gates

  Moving, Land, Class

  "Q&A: Bill Gates on the World's Energy Crisis". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.wired.com. June 20, 2011.

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• How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?

  Charles de Gaulle

  Two, Six, Cheese

  Quoted in Ernest Mignon, Les Mots du General (1962). De Gaulle had earlier been quoted in the N.Y. Times Magazine, 29 June 1958, as saying, "How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheeses?"

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• After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.

  Mel Gibson

  Funny, Inspiring, Anniversary

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• The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.

  Jackie Gleason

  Funny, Inspiring, Humor

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• One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Summer, Nature, Children

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• Salt is the policeman of taste: it keeps the various flavors of a dish in order and restrains the stronger from tyrannizing over the weaker.

  Margaret Visser

  Order, Cooking, Stronger

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• The doctrine of foods is of great ethical and political significance. Food becomes blood, blood becomes heart and brain, thoughts and mind stuff. Human fare is the foundation of human culture and thought. Would you improve a nation? Give it, instead of declamations against sin, better food. Man is what he eats [Der Mensch ist, was er isst].

  Ludwig Feuerbach

  Heart, Science, Men

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• There is something in the red of a raspberry pie that looks as good to a man as the red in a sheep looks to a wolf.

  E. W. Howe

  Men, Sheep, Pie

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• My soul is dark with stormy riot: directly traced over to diet.

  Samuel Hoffenstein

  Dark, Ayurveda, Soul

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• A good apprentice cook must be as polite with the dishwasher as with the chef.

  Fernand Point

  Chef, Dishwashers, Polite

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• That food has always been, and will continue to be, the basis for one of our greater snobbism does not explain the fact that the attitude toward the food choice of others is becoming more and more heatedly exclusive until it may well turn into one of those forms of bigotry against which gallant little committees are constantly planning campaigns in the cause of justice and decency.

  Cornelia Otis Skinner

  Attitude, Justice, Choices

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• Hunger makes you restless. you dream about food - not just any food, but perfect food, the best food, magical meals, famous and awe-inspiring, the one piece of meat, the exact taste of buttery corn, tomatoes so ripe they split and sweeten the air, beans so crisp they snap between the teeth, gravy like mother's milk singing to your bloodstream.

  Dorothy Allison

  Mother, Dream, Air

  Dorothy Allison (2005). “Bastard Out of Carolina: A Novel”, p.70, Penguin

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• Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness.

  Ted Allen

  Expression, People, Generosity

  “Things a Man Should Know About Entertainzing” by Ted Allen, www.esquire.com. May 23, 2012.

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• With enough butter, anything is good

  Julia Child

  Inspirational, Kitchen, Enough

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• Dear Lord, I've been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us... a turkey which was no doubt a lively, intelligent bird... a social being... capable of actual affection... nuzzling its young with almost human- like compassion. Anyway, it's dead and we're gonna eat it. Please give our respects to its family.

  Berkeley Breathed

  Funny, Christmas, Compassion

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• If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner

  Henry Sambrooke Leigh

  Fitness, Weight Loss, Wish

  Henry Sambrooke Leigh (1869). “Carols of Cockayne”, p.186

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• What we're really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving?

  Erma Bombeck

  Thanksgiving, Mean, Talking

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing From America's Favorite Humorist”, p.271, Open Road Media

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• Cooking is one failure after another, and that's how you finally learn.

  Julia Child

  Cooking, Culinary

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• Cassoulet, that best of bean feasts, is everyday fare for a peasant but ambrosia for a gastronome, though its ideal consumer is a 300-pound blocking back who has been splitting firewood nonstop for the last twelve hours on a subzero day in Manitoba.

  Julia Child

  Block, Cooking, Everyday

  Julia Child, E. S. Yntema (1979). “Julia Child & more company”, Knopf

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• Always remember: If you're alone in the kitchen and you drop the lamb, you can always just pick it up. Who's going to know?

  Julia Child

  Cooking, Kitchen, Lambs

  FaceBook post by Julia Child from May 15, 2012

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• I don't believe in twisting yourself into knots of excuses and explanations over the food you make.... Usually one's cooking is better than one thinks it is. And if the food is truly vile...then the cook must simply grit her teeth and bear it with a smile.

  Julia Child

  Believe, Thinking, Cooking

  "My Life In France". Book by Julia Child, p. 71, 2006.

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• The American poultry industry had made it possible to grow a fine-looking fryer in record time and sell it at a reasonable price, but no one mentioned that the result usually tasted like the stuffing inside of a teddy bear.

  Julia Child

  Records, Poultry, Bears

  Julia Child (2009). “My Life in France”, p.173, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• Vegetarians have wicked, shifty eyes, and laugh in a cold calculating manner. They pinch little children, steal stamps, drink water, favor beards.

  J. B. Morton

  Children, Eye, Water

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• There is a vast difference between the savage and the civilized man, but it is never apparent to their wives until after breakfast.

  Helen Rowland

  Marriage, Humorous, Men

  Helen Rowland (2017). “A Guide to Men: Being Encore Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”, p.22, Litres

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• Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does it more slowly but perhaps just as surely. Who knows if a well-prepared soup was not responsible for the pneumatic pump or a poor one for a war?

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  War, Wine, Health

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook A 14, 1799.

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