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I think steak is the ultimate comfort food, and if you're going out for one, that isn't the time to scrimp on calories or quality.
A good eater must be a good man; for a good eater must have a good digestion, and a good digestion depends upon a good conscience.
The egg creams of Avenue A in New York and the root beer float....are among the high points of American gastronomic inventiveness.
My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.
I eat at this German-Chinese restaurant and the food is delicious. The only problem is that an hour later you're hungry for power.
In America we eat, collectively, with a glum urge for food to fill us. We are ignorant of flavour. We are as a nation taste-blind.
Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.
It's fun to get together and have something good to eat at least once a day. That's what human life is all about - enjoying things.
A hen's egg is, quite simply, a work of art, a masterpiece of design and construction with, it has to be said, brilliant packaging!
There is a vast difference between the savage and the civilized man, but it is never apparent to their wives until after breakfast.
Avoid at all costs that vile spew you see rotting in oil in screwtop jars. Too lazy to peel fresh? You don't deserve to eat garlic.
The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight
Good food is a right, not a privilege. It brings children into a positive relationship with their health, community and environment.
The diet book is one of those fool-and-money separation devices that seems, like roulette or slot machines, never to lose its power.
They put arsenic in his meat And stared aghast to watch him eat; They poured strychnine in his cup And shook to see him drink it up.
There is no one of-woman-born who does not like Red Lobster cheddar biscuits. Anyone who claims otherwise is a liar and a Socialist.
Cantonese will eat anything in the sky but airplanes, anything in the sea but submarines, and anything with four legs but the table.
Breaking a glass in the northwest is rather like belching in Arabia, for it appears to be done as a mark of appreciation or elation.
I was raised almost entirely on turnips and potatoes, but I think that the turnips had more to do with the effect than the potatoes.
I will never eat fish eyeballs, and I do not want to taste anything commonly kept as a house pet, but otherwise I am a cinch to feed.
That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund.
It has been said of garlic that everyone knows its odor save he who has eaten it, and who wonders why everyone flies at his approach.
If in so many parts of the world there are children who have nothing to eat, that's not news, it seems normal. It cannot be this way!
A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.
As for the garden of mint, the very smell of it alone recovers and refreshes our spirits, as the taste stirs up our appetite for meat.
A pasty costly-made, Where quail and pigeon, lark and leveret lay, Like fossils of the rock, with golden yolks Imbedded and injellied.
I have lived temperately....I double the doctor's recommendation of a glass and a half wine each day and even treble it with a friend.
Don't hit the person across from you with bits of toast, And don't, when dinner is nearly through, say 'Who's the host' It isn't done.
If we breathe the scent of goodly grass, the fragrance of spices, the aroma of good fruits, we pronounce a blessing over the pleasure.
Things that really matter are the things that gold can't buy, so let's have another cup o' coffee and let's have another piece o' pie.
Eating highly seasoned food is unhealthful, because it stimulates too much, provokes the appetite too much, and often is indigestible.
Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.
If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him... the people who give you their food give you their heart.
Please understand the reason why Chinese vegetables taste so good. It is simple. The Chinese do not cook them, they just threaten them!
Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans ... are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit.
We (the Chinese) eat food for its texture, the elastic or crisp effect it has on our teeth, as well as for fragrance, flavor and color.
How come when you mix water and flour together you get glue...and then you add eggs and sugar and you get cake? Where does the glue go?
I believe I once considerably scandalized her by declaring that clear soup was a more important factor in life than a clear conscience.
Dear gourmands! my bowels yearn towards them as a father's toward his children. They are so good natured! They have such sparkling eyes!
Soup puts the heart at ease, calms down the violence of hunger, eliminates the tension of the day, and awakens and refines the appetite.
I have found it to be the most serious objection to coarse labors long continued, that they compelled me to eat and drink coarsely also.
I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, 'I'd like some fries.' The girl at the counter said, 'Would you like some fries with that?'
You may feel that you have eaten too much...But this pastry is like feathers - it is like snow. It is in fact good for you, a digestive!
Food can become such a point of anxiety - not because it's food, but just because you have anxiety. That's how eating disorders develop.
This beer is good for you. This is draft beer. Stick with the beer. Let's go and beat this guy up and come back and drink some more beer.
Soup not only warms you and is easy to swallow and to digest, it also creates the illusion in the back of your mind that Mother is there.
If antiquity be the only test of nobility, then cheese is a very noble thing ... The lineage of cheese is demonstrably beyond all record.
Yogi ordered a pizza. The waitress asked How many pieces do you want your pie cut? Yogi responded, Four. I don't think I could eat eight.
A person who can get a good table at Chez Panisse at the last minute is a very important person indeed. Royalty begins with Alice Waters.
Rule of thumb: Eat for what you're going to be doing, and not for what you have done. Don't take in more than you're willing to burn off.