3,214 Quotes About Food

I will leave it to your imperscrutable motivation on how much cake you want to eat.

I will leave it to your imperscrutable motivation how much cake you want to eat.

The pre-meal ritual involved flashing the plate with your rectangle. It is not entirely clear why this is done. At first, I assumed that they flashed everything they were unsure about. In this case, having your meal prepared entirely by a neighboring tribe can have its risks. My working theory is that, by chronicling his every meal, a tribesman can identify what exactly did him in – should illness arise.

يتذوق اللسان الطعام، فما باله لا يتذوق الكلام ؟

Food is one of the best things about being alive. Not just food. Good food. There is a chasm between sustenance and satisfaction, and while she spent the better part of three hundred years eating to stave off the pangs of hunger, she has spent the last fifty delighting in the discovery of flavor. So much of life becomes routine, but food is like music, like art, replete with the promise of something new.

In the Army, the drill sergeants said, "Eat it now and taste it later.

I spend the morning in the local grocers, bringing in the Christmas provisions: Stilton, ham, Brussels sprouts, a capon of terrifying dimensions. Unfathomable quantities of potatoes. Red wine and white, a bottle of Marsala. Turkish delight and cherry liqueur chocolates. A bag of satsumas, some wrapped in blue and gold paper. Several pots of cream, just in case.

You're looking at that sandwich like it broke your heart.' Addie looks up at Henry, cracks a smile. 'It looks so good,' she says. 'I'm just thinking of how sad I'll be when it's gone.' He sighs in mock lament. 'The worst part of every meal is when it ends.

I am watching his every move. I can see where this is going. I am motionless like the cheese before the mouse strikes. The deer before the headlights hit. The mouth before the lips kiss. He has me up on that butcher block and splayed like a slab of meat before I know what hits me.