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If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?
Turkey is undoubtedly one of the best gifts that the New World has made to the Old.
Yes. I didn't think there were any witnesses, so I guess I'll have to kill you too.
What is literature compared with cooking? The one is shadow, the other is substance.
It is not 'only' food, I said heatedly. There's meaning hidden underneath each dish.
The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume; but a good stomach excels them all.
If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate.
Beer is the Danish national drink, and the Danish national weakness is another beer.
I love the Chinese words for greeting: not strictly 'Hello' but 'Have you eaten yet?
As for those grapefruit and buttermilk diets, I'll take roast chicken and dumplings.
I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.
You can never have enough garlic. With enough garlic, you can eat The New York Times.
Most vegetarians I ever see looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals.
Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.
Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.
The best thing about liver is how virtuous it makes you feel after you've eaten some.
Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.
Things stand apart so far and differ, that What's food for one is poison for another.
Mothers and grandmothers: these are the people that I admire most, not so much chefs.
It was kind of boring for me to have to eat. I would know that I had to, and I would.
An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.
Meat is a status dish in which the sizzle counts for more than the nutritional worth.
A man who is careful with his palate is not likely to be careless with his paragraphs.
I just want one day off when I can go swimming and eat ice cream and look at rainbows.
Ketchup left overnight on dinner plates has a longer half-life than radioactive waste.
Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else.
I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.
Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.
I've made it a rule never to drink by daylight and never to refuse a drink after dark.
1 billion people in the world are chronically hungry. 1 billion people are overweight.
I always wanted to open a delicatessen in Jerusalem and call it 'Cheeses of Nazareth'.
DEJEUNER, n. The breakfast of an American who has been in Paris. Variously pronounced.
A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank.
And Honey, I miss you and I'm being good. And I'd love to be with you if only I could.
If you could make a pudding wi' thinking o' the batter, it 'ud be easy getting dinner.
Not everyone can become a great artist; but a great artist *can* come from *anywhere*.
I don't like gourmet cooking or 'this' cooking or 'that' cooking. I like good cooking.
It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.
One who goes after the taste of the tongue does not get to know the taste of the heart.
My good health is due to a soup made of white doves. It is simply wonderful as a tonic.
No one ever went to their deathbed saying, 'You know, I wish I'd eaten more rice cakes.
We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.
Whenever someone asks me if I want water with my scotch, I say, I'm thirsty, not dirty.
Maybe a person's time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food.
But I always felt that I'd rather be provincial hot-tamale than soup without seasoning.
The turnip is a capricious vegetable, which seems reluctant to show itself at its best.
It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.
I didn't say the meat was tough. I said I didn't see the horse that is usually outside.
People want honest, flavourful food, not some show-off meal that takes days to prepare.
The first time I ate organic whole-grain bread I swear it tasted like roofing material.