Food Quotes - Page 29

The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.

My illness is due to my doctor's insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies.

Good food is a good trend.

I would stand transfixed before the windows of the confectioners' shops, fascinated by the luminous sparkle of candied fruits, the cloudy lustre of jellies, the kaleidoscope inflorescence of acidulated fruit drops - red, green, orange, violet: I coveted the colours themselves as much as the pleasure they promised me.

Eat as much as you'd like. My philosophy has always been that all women desire to be as fat as myself but just have a great fear of doing so. Because they think they won't get any men, but you will. You'll get more men, and better men.

The time will come when this luscious golden tomato, rich in nutrition, a delight to the eye, a joy to the palate whether fried, baked, broiled or even eaten raw will form the foundation of a great garden industry.

My kitchen is a mystical place, a kind of temple for me. It is a place where the surfaces seem to have significance, where the sounds and odors carry meaning that transfers from the past and bridges to the future.

He who cannot eat horsemeat need not do so. Let him eat pork. But he who cannot eat pork, let him eat horsemeat. It's simply a question of taste.

Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.

We don't care to eat toadstools that think they are truffles.

Mustard's no good without roast beef.

There's so many vegetarian foods now that are available at the market . The same with drive-throughs. Now, a lot of them serve veggie burgers just like the restaurants are doing. So, it's really very easy.

Wine, one of the noblest cordials in nature.

Nutrition makes me puke.

There are four basic food groups: plain chocolate, milk chocolate, dark chocolate, and white chocolate.

The squid is so cooperative. Its body forms a tube that can be stuffed with marvelous fillings. You don't have to be Greek to enjoy this one.

I would rather live in Russia on black bread and vodka than in the United States at the best hotels. America knows nothing of food, love or art.

I've stopped drinking, but only while I'm asleep.

After a full belly all is poetry.

Japanese food is very pretty and undoubtedly a suitable cuisine in Japan, which is largely populated by people of below average size. Hostesses hell-bent on serving such food to occidentals would be well advised to supplement it with something more substantial and to keep in mind that almost everybody likes french fries.

Cooking is so popular today because it's the perfect mix of food and fun.

I had arrived at the airport one hour early so that, in accordance with airline procedures, I could stand around.

Feast, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and drunkenness, frequently in honor of some holy person distinguished for abstemiousness.

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

We are all dietetic sinners; only a small percent of what we eat nourishes us; the balance goes to waste and loss of energy.