3,214 Quotes About Food

I have been seduced and I have seduced. But this, dear friends, and gentle mouths...this was a Seduction.

Nicole had put on weight. This is the effect which, in three cases out of four, unhappiness has upon women. The process of eating guarantees at least the health of the body.

I am much more than what you see. An artist who can wow you with a tasty squid ink tortellini and weave a tall tale.

As a cook, your station, and its condition, its state of readiness, is an extension of your nervous system - and it is profoundly upsetting if another cook or, God forbid, a waiter - disturbs your precisely and carefully laid-out system.

When it was cooler, Trazada made a simple meal of sausage, cheese, and bread. She had schooled herself to wait dinner until hunger urged her to eat; it gave seasoning to poor food that no spice could furnish.("The Generalissimo's Butterfly")

And his words fell upon the table like a blessing.

Food, the stoking-up process, the keeping alive of an individual flame, the process that begins before birth and is continued after it by the mother, and finally taken over by the individual himself, who goes on day after day putting an assortment of objects into a hole in his face without becoming surprised or bored.

Overeating at Thanksgiving is a case in point. It's a national tradition.

Opening her mouth to take a bite seemed forward. Chewing? Obscene. Mutual mastication was out of the question.