Food Quotes - Page 8

• Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Bitterness, Culinary, Conversation

  Charles Dudley Warner “The Complete Works of Charles Dudley Warner”, Library of Alexandria

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• I said to my friends that if I was going to starve, I might as well starve where the food is good.

  Virgil Thomson

  Might, Said, Wells

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• The most dangerous food is wedding cake.

  James Thurber

  Wedding, Cake, Culinary

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• In department stores, so much kitchen equipment is bought indiscriminately by people who just come in for men's underwear.

  Julia Child

  Men, People, Kitchen

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• We may live without friends; we may live without books
  But civilized men cannot live without cooks.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Book, Men, Home Cooking

  'Lucile' (1860) pt. 1, canto 2, sect. 24

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• Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.

  Doug Larson

  Life, Hilarious, Humorous

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• The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me and I to them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Vegetables, Cooking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.34, Penguin

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• Spaghetti can be eaten most successfully if you inhale it like a vacuum cleaner.

  Sophia Loren

  Vacuums, Spaghetti, Cleaners

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• As for butter versus margarine, I trust cows more than chemists.

  Joan Dye Gussow

  Fitness, Health, Home Cooking

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• No man under forty can be dignified with the title of gourmet.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Men, Gourmet, Titles

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• High-tech tomatoes. Mysterious milk. Supersquash. Are we supposed to eat this stuff? Or is it going to eat us?

  Anita Manning

  Funny Inspirational, Cooking, Stuff

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• The way you cut your meat reflects the way you live.

  Confucius

  Cutting, Cooking, Meat

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• Civilised adults do not take apple juice with dinner.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Apples, Adults, Juice

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.128, Vintage

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• Waffles are like pancakes with syrup traps

  Mitch Hedberg

  Syrup, Waffles, Pancakes

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• My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.

  David Byrne

  Dinner, Leftovers, My Favorite

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• As with most fine things, chocolate has its season. There is a simple memory aid that you can use to determine whether it is the correct time to order chocolate dishes: any month whose name contains the letter A, E, or U is the proper time for chocolate.

  Sandra Boynton

  Fun, Memories, Women

  "Chocolate: The Consuming Passion". Book by Sandra Boynton, 1982.

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• Do we really want to travel in hermetically sealed popemobiles through the rural provinces of France, Mexico and the Far East, eating only in Hard Rock Cafes and McDonalds? Or do we want to eat without fear, tearing into the local stew, the humble taqueria's mystery meat, the sincerely offered gift of a lightly grilled fish head? I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Humble, Rocks, Mcdonalds

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• I won't eat anything green.

  Kurt Cobain

  Ice Cream, Green

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• Make food a very incidental part of your life by filling your life so full of meaningful things that you'll hardly have time to think about food.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Life, Meaningful, Thinking

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.160, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Death, Saws, Nutrition

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• Nothing rekindles my spirits, gives comfort to my heart and mind, more than a visit to Mississippi... and to be regaled as I often have been, with a platter of fried chicken, field peas, collard greens, fresh corn on the cob, sliced tomatoes with French dressing... and to top it all off with a wedge of freshly baked pecan pie.

  Craig Claiborne

  Heart, Pie, Corn On The Cob

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• One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

  Samuel Johnson

  Mistake, Drinking, Wine

  "Life of Samuel Johnson". Book by James Boswell. Volume II, p. 659, 1791.

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• If I liked food and disliked exercise as much as a 400 pound guy, I'd be a 400 pound guy.

  Scott Adams

  Exercise, Weight Loss, Guy

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• You can never have enough garlic. With enough garlic, you can eat The New York Times.

  Morley Safer

  New York, Garlic, Enough

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• Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Power, Men, Waiting

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