Food Quotations And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“This is really good,” Donovan Caine said, attacking his third strawberry pancake. “You sound surprised,” I said. He shrugged. “I just didn’t think an assassin would be able to cook like this.” “Well, I do get lots of practice with knives. You could say I’m multitasking.” The detective froze, his fork halfway to his mouth. “I’m kidding. I enjoy cooking. It relaxes me.”
– Jennifer Estep

“That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund.”
– Anthony Bourdain

“You, as a food buyer, have the distinct privilege of proactively participating in shaping the world your children will inherit.”
– Joel Salatin

“Taking solitude in stride was a sign of strength and of a willingness to take care of myself. This meant – among other things – working productively, remembering to leave the house, and eating well. I thought about food all the time. I had a subscription to Gourmet and Food & Wine. Cooking for others had often been my way of offering care. So why, when I was alone, did I find myself trying to subsist on cereal and water? I’d need to learn to cook for one.”
– Jenni Ferrari Adler

“To live, we must daily break the body and shed the blood of Creation. When we do this knowingly, lovingly, skillfully, reverently, it is a sacrament. When we do it ignorantly, greedily, clumsily, destructively, it is a desecration. In such desecration we condemn ourselves to spiritual and moral loneliness, and others to want.”
– Wendell Berry

“Our holiday food splurge was a small crate of tangerines, which we found ridiculously thrilling after an eight-month abstinence from citrus…. Lily hugged each one to her chest before undressing it as gently as a doll. Watching her do that as she sat cross-legged on the floor one morning in pink pajamas, with bliss lighting her cheeks, I thought: Lucky is the world, to receive this grateful child. Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.”
– Barbara Kingslover

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

“Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps full the dinner pail is valuable.”
– George Washington Carver

“I just don’t see the point of not eating cheese. I mean, if God didn’t want us to eat cheese, would he have let man invent it?”
– Lisa Samson

“Food, a French man told me once, is the first wealth. Grow it right, and you feel insanely rich, no matter what you own.”
– Kristin Kimball

“Meat isn’t murder, it’s delicious.”
– John Lydon

“The onion is the truffle of the poor.”
– Robert J. Courtine

“There is communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.”
– M.F.K. Fisher

“If there’s a sexier sound on this planet than the person you’re in love with cooing over the crepes you made for him, I don’t know what it is.”
– Julie Powell

“All men are hungry. They always have been. They must eat, and when they deny themselves the pleasures of carrying out that need, they are cutting off part of their possible fullness, their natural realization of life, whether they are rich or poor.”
– M.F.K. Fisher

“I always thought eating was a ridiculous activity anyway. I’d get out of it myself if I could, though you’ve got to do it to stay alive, they tell me.”
– Margaret Atwood

“If kids six and under eat free, then I’m an infant. Or at least infantile. Bring on the steaks.
– Jarod Kintz

“I cannot go any further without mentioning my favourite biscuit of all time, now sadly, tragically, extinct. The oaty, crumbly, demerara notes of the long-forgotten Abbey Crunch will remain forever on my lips. I loved the biscuit as much as anything I have ever eaten, and often, in moments of solitude, I still think about its warm, buttery, sugary self.”
– Nigel Slater

“Falling in love with humans is like walking into a pantry and realizing you’re trapped in it without Whip Cream, and Cherries.”
– Aaina Ridtz A R

“It’s 3:32, and I need just one more ingredient to finish baking 3:33. Would you prefer the AM or the PM piece?
– Jarod Kintz

“My meat smells like cat food. Makes me want to lick my own asshole.
– Jarod Kintz

“There’s a penis in my penne pasta. It’s my penis, but that doesn’t mean it belongs there.
– Jarod Kintz

“The big uncookable sections of who we are, they’re the ones I love to taste the most.
– Jarod Kintz

“A man who goes into a restaurant and blatantly disrespects the servers shows a strong discontent with his own being. Deep down he knows that restaurant service is the closest thing he will ever experience to being served like a king.”
– Criss Jami

“I think preparing food and feeding people brings nourishment not only to our bodies but to our spirits. Feeding people is a way of loving them, in the same way that feeding ourselves is a way of honoring our own createdness and fragility.”
– Shauna Niequist

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