3,214 Quotes About Food

Was it a craving for salt, or for pain?

that's my way, always jealous and never thin

A gastronome who isn’t an environmentalist is just stupid, and an environmentalist who isn’t a gastronome is just sad.

If you were only crumbs on a plate, I would pick every last one up with my finger

Every Great Relationship Begins with the Perfect Meal

It's not just food that creates(and recreates) you, your thoughts and your environment do as well.

Is this what it's like, I thought then, and think now: a little blood here, a chomp there, and still we live, trampling the grass? Must everything whole be nibbled? Here was a new light on the intricate texture of things in the world, the actual plot of the present moment in time after the fall: the way we the living are nibbled and nibbling--not held aloft on a cloud in the air but bumbling pitted and scarred and broken through a frayed and beautiful land.

Anyone can cook, but the true talent belongs to those who are capable of gently ensnaring with their delicacies, winning compliance with the mere suggestion that there might not be any goodies for a caller who persisted in prying.

As Sherlock Holmes once observed: When you've excluded the inevitable, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be lunch.