3,214 Quotes About Food

The creator provides food for all his creation.

If the home is a body, the table is the heart, the beating center, the sustainer of life and health.

Despite her unrepentant aversion to Italian food, which her husband put down to her nation's historic distrust of Italy, she suddenly declared: "All I want in life is to be able to get a take-away pizza!

What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.

It struck her how eating was a comfort during a hard time because it reminded you that there had been other days, good days, when you’d eaten the same thing. Reminded you there were good days in life, when precious little else did. (268)

We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God. Her culinary prowess was one of our family’s primal stories, like the cunning of the grandfather I never met, or the single fight of my parents’ marriage. We clung to those stories and depended on them to define us. We were the family that chose its battles wisely, and used wit to get out of binds, and loved the food of our matriarch.

People think that food cheers you up, that a doughnut cures all ills, but this only works for trivial complaints. When real disaster strikes, food chokes you.

Pleasure is often felt through the tongue or genitals as an attempt to distract oneself from the pain one is feeling through the heart.