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The woman just ahead of you at the supermarket checkout has all the delectable groceries you didn't even know they carried.
Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before.
You learn to cook so that you don't have to be a slave to recipes. You get what's in season and you know what to do with it.
We are all dietetic sinners; only a small percent of what we eat nourishes us; the balance goes to waste and loss of energy.
I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.
To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living.
The origin of agriculture involved both human intentionality and a set of underlying ecological and evolutionary principles.
The friendly cow, all red and white, I love with all my heart; She gives me cream with all her might, To eat with apple-tart.
The strawberry grows underneath the nettle And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality.
We owe much to the fruitful meditation of our sages, but a sane view of life is, after all, elaborated mainly in the kitchen.
Studies find top 3 most stressful moments in people's lives: death, divorce, and properly pronouncing "Worcestershire sauce."
Baking cookies is comforting, and cookies are the sweetest little bit of comfort food. They are very bite-sized and personal.
When I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and it is all one.
A man, doubtful of his dinner, or trembling at a creditor, is not much disposed to abstracted meditation, or remote enquiries.
Everything Changes. The only thing that remains immovable across the centuries and fixes the character of a people is cooking.
The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.
Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.
Remember the days when you let your child have some chocolate if he finished his cereal? Now, chocolate is one of the cereals.
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.
Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, so is the ballet.
FOOD is the most widely abused anti-anxiety drug in America, and EXERCISE is the most potent yet underutilized antidepressant.
Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
You can go a month without food, you can live three days without water, but you can't go more then sixty seconds without HOPE.
We load up on oat bran in the morning so we'll live forever. Then we spend the rest of the day living like there's no tomorrow.
I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine; every man for himself, and God for us all.
You, as a food buyer, have the distinct privilege of proactively participating in shaping the world your children will inherit.
Nothing is more useful than wine for strengthening the body and also more detrimental to our pleasure if moderation be lacking.
Sailboats are the slowest form of transportation on Earth with the possible exeption of airline flights that go through O'Hare.
The American does not drink at meals as a sensible man should. Indeed, he has no meals. He stuffs for ten minutes thrice a day.
We need a new definition of malnutrition. Malnutrition means under- and over-nutrition. Malnutrition means emaciated and obese.
I like a cook who smiles out loud when he tastes his own work. Let God worry about your modesty; I want to see your enthusiasm.
When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain.
That's something I've noticed about food: whenever there's a crisis if you can get people to eating normally things get better.
A fruit is a vegetable with looks and money. Plus, if you let fruit rot, it turns into wine, something brussel sprouts never do.
Slicing a warm slab of bacon is a lot like giving a ferret a shave. No matter how careful you are, somebody's going to get hurt.
Food without wine is a corpse; wine without food is a ghost; united and well matched they are as body and soul, living partners.
...instead of offering me a Garibaldi biscuit, she asked me with that faint lisp of hers, to 'have some squashed flies, George'.
All the great villainies of history, from the murder of Abel onward, have been perpetrated by sober men, chiefly by Teetotalers.
We thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well being and delight.
As I ramble through life, whatever be my goal, I will unfortunately always keep my eye upon the doughnut and not upon the whole.
Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!
The history of government regulation of food safety is one of government watchdogs chasing the horse after it's out of the barn.
A significant part of the pleasure of eating is in one’s accurate consciousness of the lives and the world from which food comes.
My favorite sandwich is peanut butter, baloney, cheddar cheese, lettuce, and mayonnaise on toasted bread with catsup on the side.
An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.
Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.
The codfish is a staple food For which I'm seldom in the mood. This fish is such an utter loss That people eat it with egg sauce.
Americans may be drinking fewer alcoholic beverages, but they are certainly eating more of them than ever before. Wittingly or un.
In taking soup, it is necessary to avoid lifting too much in the spoon, or filling the mouth so full as almost to stop the breath.
What an awful thing life is, isn’t it? It’s like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless.