Food Quotes

It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.

Good food ends with good talk.

Food is our common ground, a universal experience.

The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.

Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.

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

There ain't no such thing as wrong food.

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?'

I like rice. Rice is great if you're hungry and want 2000 of something.

Although I have been prevented by outward circumstances from observing a strictly vegetarian diet, I have long been an adherent to the cause in principle. Besides agreeing with the aims of vegetarianism for aesthetic and moral reasons, it is my view that a vegetarian manner of living by its purely physical effect on the human temperament would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.

It's amazing how pervasive food is. Every second commercial is for food. Every second TV episode takes place around a meal. In the city, you can't go ten feet without seeing or smelling a restaurant. There are 20 foot high hamburgers up on billboards. I am acutely aware of food, and its omnipresence is astounding.

There are few things so pleasant as a picnic eaten in perfect comfort.

A way to a man's heart is through his stomach, that shit true as gold. You put some love in your food and a fool can taste it.

If the divine creator has taken pains to give us delicious and exquisite things to eat, the least we can do is prepare them well and serve them with ceremony.

The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness And in the taste confounds the appetite.

Talking of Pleasure, this moment I was writing with one hand, and with the other holding to my Mouth a Nectarine -- how good how fine. It went down all pulpy, slushy, oozy, all its delicious embonpoint melted down my throat like a large, beautified Strawberry.

New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.

When I walk into my kitchen today, I am not alone. Whether we know it or not, none of us is. We bring fathers and mothers and kitchen tables, and every meal we have ever eaten. Food is never just food. It's also a way of getting at something else: who we are, who we have been, and who we want to be.

I once read cooking is something you do for your family. But when you’re alone you sometimes have to treat yourself like family. And now that my apartment’s redolent with the smell of food it feels more like a home than a box where I hang my hat.

I have never cared much for fish - it floats in the belly as much as in the pond.