Food Quotes - Page 33

• There is no one of-woman-born who does not like Red Lobster cheddar biscuits. Anyone who claims otherwise is a liar and a Socialist.

  Tina Fey

  Liars, Doe, Lobster

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• When in doubt, ingest carbs.

  Rachel Cohn

  Doubt, Eating, Carbs

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.28, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Trying, Static, Repetitive

  Anthony Bourdain (2010). “Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook”, p.193, A&C Black

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• And dieting, I discovered, was another form of disordered eating, just as anorexia and bulimia similarly disrupt the natural order of eating. "Ordered" eating is the practice of eating when you are hungry and ceasing to eat when your brain sends the signal that your stomach is full. ... All people who live their lives on a diet are suffering. If you can accept your natural body weight and not force it to beneath your body's natural, healthy weight, then you can live your life free of dieting, of restriction, of feeling guilty every time you eat a slice of your kid's birthday cake.

  Portia de Rossi

  Kids, Body Weight, Order

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• There are four basic food groups: plain chocolate, milk chocolate, dark chocolate, and white chocolate.

  Jill Shalvis

  Dark, White, Chocolate

  FaceBook post by Jill Shalvis from Aug 07, 2012

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• Numbers written on restaurant bills within the confines of restaurants do not follow the same mathematical laws as numbers written on any other pieces of paper in any other parts of the Universe. This single fact took the scientific world by storm.

  Douglas Adams

  Science, Law, Numbers

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Radio Scripts Volume 2: The Tertiary, Quandary and Quintessential Phases”, p.45, Pan Macmillan

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• A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Spiritual, Men, Vegetarianism

  "George Bernard Shaw: His Life and Personality". Book by Hesketh Pearson, 1942.

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• Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Simple, Fabulous, Kitchen Confidential

  Anthony Bourdain (2011). “Tony Bourdain boxset: Kitchen Confidential & Medium Raw”, p.78, A&C Black

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• The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Witty, Time

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• Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each. Let them be your only diet drink and botanical medicines.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Time, Air, Medicine

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.119, Courier Corporation

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• Things that really matter are the things that gold can't buy, so let's have another cup o' coffee and let's have another piece o' pie.

  Irving Berlin

  Coffee, Pie, Gold

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• In my food world, there is no fear or guilt, only joy and balance.

  Ellie Krieger

  Joy, Balance, Guilt

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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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• I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pate than any other.

  Kingsley Amis

  Cooking, Sometimes, Culinary

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• On a hot day in Virginia, I know nothing more comforting than a fine spiced pickle, brought up trout-like from the sparkling depths of the aromatic jar below the stairs of Aunt Sally's cellar.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Aunt, Virginia, Comforting

  "Coming to a Freezer Near You: Pickle Pops" by Elena Ferretti, www.foxnews.com. March 1, 2010.

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• At the working man’s house, hunger looks in but dares not enter.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, House, Looks

  Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.249

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