Food Quotations And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“All sorrows are less with bread. ”
– Miguel de Cerventes Saavedra

“I know the look of an apple that is roasting and sizzling on the hearth on a winter’s evening, and I know the comfort that comes of eating it hot, along with some sugar and a drench of cream… I know how the nuts taken in conjunction with winter apples, cider, and doughnuts, make old people’s tales and old jokes sound fresh and crisp and enchanting.”
– Mark Twain

“If God gives you a Quiznos, can I have a bite? No way. You have to pray for your own food.”
– Micheal Grant

“Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.”
– Erma Bombeck

“Anybody who believes that the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach flunked geography. ”
– Robert Byrne

“Sex is good, but not as good as fresh sweet corn.”
– Christopher Morley

“It’s been said that men think only about sex and food. And some men, like my uncle Lester, think about sex with food. Needless to say the church has ordered him to cease bringing his own food to the potlucks.”
– Jarod Kintz

“To make my meal in a box taste better, I decided to tweak the logo, rather than the ingredients.
– Jarod Kintz

“Books allow you to take flight, unlike the chicken wings I stapled to my back before eating them.
– Jarod Kintz

“When the food runs out, the family reunion is over. It’s cool that out of all my relatives, I’m the only cannibal.
– Jarod Kintz

“Fat gives things flavor.”
– Julia Child

“Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious.”
– Ruth Reichl

“We know, for instance, that there is a direct, inverse relationship between frequency of family meals and social problems. Bluntly stated, members of families who eat together regularly are statistically less likely to stick up liquor stores, blow up meth labs, give birth to crack babies, commit suicide, or make donkey porn. If Little Timmy had just had more meatloaf, he might not have grown up to fill chest freezers with Cub Scout parts.”
– Anthony Bourdain

“He was chugging brown pop from a can Jack had handed him while he stuffed nacho cheese Doritos in his face. I was glad to see he looked lots better, almost completely like himself, which proves Doritos and brown pop really are health foods.”
– P.C. Cast

“I’ve long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk. Whether we’re talking about unpasteurized Stilton, raw oysters or working for organized crime ‘associates,’ food, for me, has always been an adventure”
– Anthony Bourdain

“I come from a home where gravy is a beverage.”

– Erma Bombeck

“Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.”
– Samuel Butler

“The Cheesecake Factory is a great business model, but if you take your wife there for your 25th wedding anniversary, you might not reach your 26th.”
– Scott Adams

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

– M.F.K. Fisher

“Anyone who thinks they’re too grown up or too sophisticated to eat caramel corn, is not invited to my house for dinner”

– Ruth Reichl

“Food is an important part of a balanced diet.”
– Fran Lebowitz

“There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“While it is true that many people simply can’t afford to pay more for food, either in money or time or both, many more of us can. After all, just in the last decade or two we’ve somehow found the time in the day to spend several hours on the internet and the money in the budget not only to pay for broadband service, but to cover a second phone bill and a new monthly bill for television, formerly free. For the majority of Americans, spending more for better food is less a matter of ability than priority. p.187″
– Micheal Pollan

“Elsewhere the paper notes that vegetarians and vegans (including athletes) ‘meet and exceed requirements’ for protein. And, to render the whole we-should-worry-about-getting-enough-protein-and-therefore-eat-meat idea even more useless, other data suggests that excess animal protein intake is linked with osteoporosis, kidney disease, calcium stones in the urinary tract, and some cancers. Despite some persistent confusion, it is clear that vegetarians and vegans tend to have more optimal protein consumption than omnivores. ”
– Jonathan Safran Foer

“Please go to this pizzeria. Order the margherita pizza with double mozzarella. If you do not eat this pizza when you are in Naples, please lie to me and tell me that you did.”
– Elizabeth Gilbert

“Watch a French housewife as she makes her way slowly along the loaded stalls… searching for the peak of ripeness and flavor… What you are seeing is a true artist at work, patiently assembling all the materials of her craft, just as the painter squeezes oil colors onto his palette ready to create a masterpiece.”
– Keith Floyd

“Great restaurants are, of course, nothing but mouth-brothels. There is no point in going to them if one intends to keep one’s belt buckled.”
– Frederic Raphael

“A Paradox, the doughnut hole. Empty space, once, but now they’ve learned to market even that. A minus quantity; nothing, rendered edible. I wondered if they might be used-metaphorically, of course-to demonstrate the existence of God. Does naming a sphere of nothingness transmute it into being?”
– Margaret Atwood

“For as long as I can remember, my father saved. He saves money, he saves disfigured sticks that resemble disfigured celebrities, and most of all, he saves food. Cherry tomatoes, sausage biscuits, the olives plucked from other people’s martinis –he hides these things in strange places until they are rotten. And then he eats them.”
– David Sedaris

“I thought I was eating a candy bar, but it turned out to be a yummy burrito. I was both disappointed and appointed at the same time.
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– Jarod Kintz

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