Food Quotes - Page 39

• Soup is cuisine's kindest course. It breathes reassurance; it steams consolation; after a weary day it promotes sociability, as the five o'clock cup of tea or the cocktail hour.

  Louis Pullig De Gouy

  Party, Tea, Cocktails

  Louis Pullig De Gouy (1949). “The Soup Book: 770 Recipes”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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• Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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• I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character; like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy. The turkey is a much more respectable bird, and withal a true original native of America.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Country, Character, Men

  Letter to Sarah Bache, January 26, 1784.

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• If I'm making a movie and get hungry, I call time-out and eat some crackers.

  Carol Alt

  Ice Cream, Abnormal, Hungry

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

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• I like to eat and I love the diversity of foods.

  David Soul

  Ice Cream, Diversity

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

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• Chicken fat, beef fat, fish fat, fried foods - these are the foods that fuel our fat genes by giving them raw materials for building body fat.

  Neal Barnard

  Giving, Fuel, Body

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• Miss Child is never bashful with butter.

  Phil Donahue

  Children, Missing, Cooking

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• I love spaghetti and meatballs... I eat a lot.

  Susan Lucci

  Ice Cream, Spaghetti, Meatballs

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• The Infusion of a China plant sweetened with the pith of an Indian Cane.

  Joseph Addison

  Cooking, Tea, Culinary

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd, Henry George Bohn (1854). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: The Tatler and Spectator [no. 1-160”, p.372

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• His argument is as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by oiling the shadow of a pigeon that had been starved to death.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Shadow, Soup

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• In spite of food fads, fitness programs, and health concerns, we must never lose sight of a beautifully conceived meal.

  Julia Child

  Sight, Meals, Fads

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• A complete lack of caution is perhaps one of the true signs of a real gourmet: he has no need for it, being filled as he is with a God-given and intelligently self-cultivated sense of gastronomical freedom.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Real, Self, Cooking

  "An Alphabet for Gourmets". Book by M. F. K. Fisher, 1949.

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• The smell of good bread baking,
  like the sound of lightly flowing water,
  is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Smell, Water, Sound

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• Almost every person has something secret he likes to eat.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Cooking, Secret, Likes

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.61, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Between the ages of twenty and fifty, John Doe spends some twenty thousand hours chewing and swallowing food, more than eight hundred days and nights of steady eating. The mere contemplation of this fact is upsetting enough.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Night, Eight, Upset

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.43, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Central heating, French rubber goods and cookbooks are three amazing proofs of man's ingenuity in transforming necessity into art, and, of these, cookbooks are perhaps most lastingly delightful.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Art, Men, Cooking

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.52, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Cheese has always been a food that both sophisticated and simple humans love.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Simple, Cooking, Cheese

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.375, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It's important to watch what you eat. Otherwise, how are you going to get it into your mouth ?

  Matthew Diamond

  Cooking, Important, Watches

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• Green clovers. Blue diamonds. Orange Stars. Pink hearts. Purple horseshoes. Man, I never know if I'm looking at a bowl of cereal or having another acid flashback.

  David Henry

  Stars, Heart, Men

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• It is as bad as bad can be: it is ill-fed, ill-killed, ill-kept, and ill-drest.

  Samuel Johnson

  Feds, Ill

  On the roast mutton he had been served at an inn, in James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 4, p. 284 (3 June 1784)

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• I never eat sushi. I have trouble eating things that are merely unconscious.

  George Carlin

  Cooking, Sushi, Trouble

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• I use the word 'fat'. I use that word because that's what people are: they're fat. They're not bulky; they're not large, chunky, hefty or plump. And they're not big-boned. Dinosaurs were big-boned. These people are not overweight: this term somehow implies there is some correct weight... There is no correct weight. Heavy is also a misleading term. An aircraft carrier is heavy; it's not fat. Only people are fat, and that's what fat people are! They're fat !

  George Carlin

  People, Use, Aircraft Carriers

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• Outside every fat man there is an even fatter man trying to close in.

  Kingsley Amis

  Funny, Men, Trying

  'One Fat Englishman' (1963) ch. 3.

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• Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!

  Iris Murdoch

  Philosophy, Science, Conceited

  Iris Murdoch (1989). “The Book and the Brotherhood”, p.32, Penguin

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• No matter how thin you slice it it's still baloney.

  Rube Goldberg

  Cooking, Matter, Culinary

  "The New York Comics And Picture-story Symposium: Jennifer George And Charles Kochman", therumpus.net. March 4, 2014.

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