Food Quotes - Page 34

• 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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• How do they taste? They taste like more.

  H. L. Mencken

  Cooking, Taste, Culinary

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• Of all the items on the menu, soup is that which exacts the most delicate perfection and the strictest attention.

  Auguste Escoffier

  Perfection, Attention, Soup

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• After eating chocolate you feel godlike, as though you can conquer enemies, lead armies, entice lovers.

  Emily Luchetti

  Halloween, Army, Cooking

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• 1 billion people in the world are chronically hungry. 1 billion people are overweight.

  Mark Bittman

  Motivational, People, Healthy

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• Anyone can cook but only the fearless can be great.

  Brad Garrett

  Fearless, Cooks

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• When I eat with my friends, it is a moment of real pleasure, when I really enjoy my life.

  Monica Bellucci

  Real, Ice Cream, Moments

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you can eat with mates or friends or family, I mean, it's such a brilliant thing isn't it? If you feel really rubbish and you have a nice bit of food it makes you feel good, you know?

  Jamie Oliver

  Nice, Mean, Feel Good

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• I bet you think an egg is something you casually order for breakfast when you can't think of anything else. Well, so did I once, but that was before the egg and I.

  Claudette Colbert

  Thinking, Order, Eggs

  "Fictional character: Betty MacDonald". "The Egg and I", www.imdb.com. 1947.

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• Revenge is a dish best served cold.

  Ricardo Montalban

  Revenge, Animated Series, Cooking

  "Fictional character: Khan Noonien Singh". "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan", 1982.

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• A Georgia peach, a real Georgia peach, a backyard great-grandmother's orchard peach, is as thickly furred as a sweater, and so fluent and sweet that once you bite through the flannel, it brings tears to your eyes.

  Melissa Fay Greene

  Sweet, Real, Eye

  Melissa Fay Greene (2015). “Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfiction”, p.22, Da Capo Press

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• A significant part of the pleasure of eating is in one’s accurate consciousness of the lives and the world from which food comes.

  Wendell Berry

  World, Consciousness, Eating

  Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.326, Counterpoint

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• Don't touch my d**k, don't touch my knife.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Knives

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