3,214 Quotes About Food

Brillat-Savarin, said: ‘Tell me what you eat and I’ll tell you who you are.’ He had it wrong. It’s not just what we eat that shows who we are, it’s what we buy but don’t eat that says more about the people we think we are. Or want to be. Look at the ingredients in your cupboards. All those hopes and dreams.

Do not tell someone you are hungry if, whenever they feed you, you do not eat.

The heart of the home beats in the kitchen and a healthy one beats three times a day

You know that food eases every trouble.'Angie found herself smiling. How many times in her life had she come home from school, devastated by some social slight, only to hear Mama say, Eat something. You'll feel better...'I've been through two divorces. Food so doesn't help. I tried to get her to put some tequila in the basket, but you know Mama.' She leaned closer. 'I have some Zoloft in my purse if you need it.

A mere two days without eating and you passed out. It must be tough not being able to photosynthesize.

Modern food may be the most compelling lie humans have ever told.

The cakes and pies and casseroles beckoned like gastronomic sirens, and there was no one to lash me to the mast.

The rise in obesity is the predictable result of the rise in manufactured deliciousness. Everything we add to food just makes us want it more. And no matter how hard we try, we can't make our outsized desires go away. If anything, we're lucky, inexplicably so, that only 8.3 percent of women and 4.4 percent of men have a BMI consistent with total food addiction. But remember the children...The percentage of slender Americans will gradually work its way down to zero. (82)

It's not over till the fat lady eats!