3,214 Quotes About Food

These are the best things I've ever had in my mouth!

Some of us can live without a society but not without a family.

She’d have to treat the interview more like risotto than instant rice, adding ingredients gradually while stirring gently.

[Her] idea of a fair trade--her lentils for your caviar.

I won't eat what I can't kill. It seems shoddy, hypocritical.

In united families, they might sleep with half filled stomach but no one sleeps with empty stomach.

Some very common foods and drinks are aversive. Few people enjoy, at first, coffee, beer, tobacco, or chili pepper. Pleasure from pain is uniquely human. No other animal willingly eats such foods when there are alternatives. Philosophers have often looked for the defining feature of humans—language, rationality, culture, and so on. I'd stick with this: Man is the only animal that likes Tabasco sauce.

The journey of food, from forest or field to plate to being, is full of wonder and magic. It grows, nourishes, and sustains us in ways that are both miraculous and often taken for granted. Becoming attentive and, as an inevitable result, grateful deepens our awareness of and appreciation for life and the responsibility that we each have to care for the world around us.

You can take the Indian out of the family, but you cannot take the family out of the Indian.