203 Quotes About Food-writing

To eat these foods again in the new country was a way of holding on to the grandmothers and mothers who had first cooked with them. Often, however, the remembering through food is bittersweet, because even when you have tracked down every last herb and spice, the missing ingredient is the cook. You find you don’t want pasta ‘just like Mama used to make’; you actually want Mama herself.

The flavour of sweet milk is perhaps the most firmly imprinted of all food memories in Western culture.

The main way that anyone learns to like new foods is through repeated exposure.

With good cooking and a patient but persistent approach at mealtimes, it could be food that was both good for the children and enjoyable.

It is a lonely occupation, being someone who wrestles to control their responses to food, given that modern life is steeped with things to eat, both real and imaginary.

Learning how to eat better - which is quite different from going on a diet - is within anyone’s grasp.

All the foods you regularly eat are the ones that you learned to eat. Everyone starts life drinking milk. After that, it’s all up for grabs.

Too lazy to peel fresh? You don't deserve to eat garlic.

Prior Preparation Prevents Poor Performance, as they say in the army - and I always, always want to be ready. Just like Bigfoot.