Food Quotes - Page 40

• 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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• I eat merely to put food out of my mind.

  N. F. Simpson

  Cooking, Mind, Eating

  N. F. Simpson (2013). “N. F. Simpson: Collected Plays: A Resounding Tinkle; The Hole; Gladly Otherwise; One Way Pendulum; The Cresta Run; Was He Anyone?; If So, Then Yes”, p.87, Faber & Faber

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• The belly is the giver of genius.

  Aulus Persius Flaccus

  Genius, Giver, Belly

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• A hungry stomach rarely despises common food.

  Horace

  Common, Hungry, Despise

  Horace, Persius (2005). “The Satires of Horace and Persius”, p.94, Penguin UK

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• Eat at your own as you would the table of a king.

  Confucius

  Kings, Tables

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• Cooking is one of the oldest arts and one which has rendered us the most important service in civic life.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Art, Cooking, Important

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• The pleasures of the table belong to all times and ages, to every country and every day; they go hand in hand with all our other pleasures, outlast them, and remain to console us for their loss.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Country, Loss, Hands

  Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (2004). “The Physiology of Taste”, p.18, Penguin UK

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• In the hands of an able cook, fish can become an inexhaustible source of perpetual delight.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Hands, Cooking, Delight

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• Poultry is for the cook what canvas is for a painter, or the cap of Fortunatus for a conjurer.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Inspirational, Cooking, Poultry

  "The Physiology of Taste: or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy".

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• Salad freshens without enfeebling and fortifies without irritating.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Cooking, Salad, Culinary

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• The truffle is not a positive aphrodisiac, but it can upon occasion make women tenderer and men more apt to love.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Men, Cooking, Aphrodisiac

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (2012). “The Physiology of Taste”, p.81, Courier Corporation

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• Those from whom nature has withheld taste invented trousers.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Cooking, Taste, Culinary

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• Turkey is undoubtedly one of the best gifts that the New World has made to the Old.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Turkeys, Cooking, World

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• To feel safe and warm on a cold wet night, all you really need is soup.

  Laurie Colwin

  Night, Needs, Soup

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• There is nothing like soup. It is by nature eccentric: no two are ever alike, unless of course you get your soup in a can.

  Laurie Colwin

  Two, Soup, Eccentric

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• Nature will castigate those who don't masticate.

  Horace Fletcher

  Cooking, Culinary

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• In my food world, there is no fear or guilt, only joy and balance. So no ingredient is ever off-limits. Rather, all of the recipes here follow my Usually-Sometimes-Rarely philosophy. Notice there is no Never.

  Ellie Krieger

  Philosophy, Joy, Healthy

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• In my experience of vegan food it tends to be a symphony of beige.

  Jay Rayner

  Symphony, Vegan Food, Vegan

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• In the last analysis, a pickle is a cucumber with experience.

  Irena Chalmers

  Cooking, Analysis, Cucumbers

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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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• Do not be afraid to talk about food. Food which is worth eating is worth discussing. And there is the occult power of words which somehow will develop its qualities.

  Marcel Boulestin

  Cooking, Quality, Power Of Words

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