Our heavily meat-centered culture is at the very heart of our waste of the earth's productivity.

Veal is a very young beef and, like a very young girlfriend, it's cute but boring and expensive.

Shiatsu, deep-tissue or maybe even Rolfing: Which manner of pummeling becomes a cephalopod most?

For a gourmet wine is not a drink but a condiment, provided that your host has chosen correctly.

There are many miracles in the world to be celebrated and, for me, garlic is the most deserving.

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

Eating is always a decision, nobody forces your hand to pick up food and put it into your mouth.

Preserve and treat food as you would your body, remembering that in time food will be your body.

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.

The so-called nouvelle cuisine usually means not enough on your plate and too much on your bill.

Granted, this system is insane, but we must not let sanity stand in the way of airport security.

Just the other day in the Underground I enjoyed the pleasure of offering my seat to three ladies.

I know a good woman who thinks that her son lost his life because he took to drinking water only.

Condensed milk is wonderful. I don't see how they can get a cow to sit down on those little cans.

I don't like spinach, and I'm glad I don't, because if I liked it I'd eat it, and I just hate it.

My wife is on a new diet. Coconuts and bananas. She hasn't lost weight, but can she climb a tree.

Anyone who eats three meals a day should understand why cookbooks outsell sex books three to one.

The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star.

You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.

I am utterly against those confused Olios, into which men put almost all kinds of meats and Roots.

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

TEETOTALER, n. One who abstains from strong drink, sometimes totally, sometimes tolerably totally.

What keeps me motivated is not the food itself but all the bonds and memories the food represents.

Anything that is white is sweet. Anything that is brown is meat. Anything that is grey, don't eat.

There’s no sight on earth more appealing than that of a woman making dinner for someone she loves.

Cakes have such a terrible habit of turning out bad just when you especially want them to be good.

Nature shrinks as capital grows. The growth of the market cannot solve the very crisis it creates.

Life is half delicious yogurt, half crap, and your job is to keep the plastic spoon in the yogurt.

Oats. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.

Slow Food unites the pleasure of food with responsibility, sustainability and harmony with nature.

Motto of the U.S. airline industry - "We're Hoping to Have a Motto Announcement in About an Hour."

Give them great meals of beef and iron and steel, they will eat like wolves and fight like devils.

Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.

For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man's hunger.

In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but feed us.

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

I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number of carats in a diamond.

It is an oldish question, but not perhaps a very interesting one, whether cooking is an art or not.

I don't stop eating when I'm full. The meal isn't over when I'm full. It's over when I hate myself.

News is like food: it is the cooking and serving that makes it acceptable, not the material itself.

The glances over cocktails That seem to be so sweet Don't seem quite so amorous Over Shredded Wheat

I do not think anything serious should be done after dinner, as nothing should be before breakfast.

I didn't forget your breakfast. I didn't bring your breakfast. Because you didn't eat your din-din.

So if animals aren't our friends, then what are they? The answer can be summed up between two buns.

I once went out with this wild girl. She made French toast and got her tongue caught in the toaster.

The spirit cannot endure the body when overfed, but, if underfed, the body cannot endure the spirit.

Vegetarians claim to be immune from most diseases but they have been known to die from time to time.

White grapes are very attractive but when it comes to dessert people generally like cake with icing.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

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