3,214 Quotes About Food

Dinner was a fur muff, a dozen clothespins, and some old dish towels boiled up with carrots. The fact that the meal was served with a bottle of prepared horseradish enabled Sammy to conclude that it was intended to pass for braised short ribs of beef - flanken. Many of Ethel's specialties arrived thus encoded by condiments.

There is no hindrance to a hungry man who has been served food except he suspects it is poisoned.

I mould him as the Baker moulds the Dough before he pops it in the Oven.

Is there a law against a man liking salted squid?

Without farmers, we would have no food.

Without fishermen, there is no fish.

No farmer, no food.

[Bren] preferred distance from his meal. Tabini called it a moral flaw. He called it civilization and Tabini called it delusion: You eat meat out of season, Tabini would say. Out of time with the earth, you sell flesh for profit. You eat that never runs free: you call that civilized?

Well, I did have 2 pancakes with chocolate spread and stuff but I got hungry.