Food Quotes - Page 58

A man's palate can, in time, become accustomed to anything.

One of the most disturbing ways that climate change is already playing out is through what ecologists call "mismatch" or "mistiming." This is the process whereby warming causes animals to fall out of step with a critical food source, particularly at breeding times, when a failure to find enough food can lead to rapid population losses.

I had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado, or ceremony, than feed upon turkey at another man's table.

If you have good food, people will come to your restaurant.

My goal in 'Live to Cook' is to make great food more approachable for home cooks.

He walked out of the hospital into the sun, into open air for the first time in months, out of the green-lit rooms that lay like glass in his mind. He stood there breathing everything in, the hurry of everyone. First, he thought, I need shoes with rubber on the bottom. I need gelato.

Wait. Why am I thinking about Krispy Kremes? We’re supposed to be exercising.

I'm a man more dined against than dining.

Children, we should always eat our food sitting down. Do not eat standing or walking around.

While eating, our attention should not be focused just on the taste. Imagine our chosen deity or guru is present within us and that we are feeding Him. This will turn eating into a spiritual practice.

As far as possible, everyone in the family should eat together.

Just ask the local people for the best food. Don't rely on a guidebook.

Some people who are obsessed with food become gourmet chefs. Others become eating disorders.

A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually waste away, and eventually die.

The best fish in the world are of course those one catches oneself.

Food is "everyday"-it has to be, or we would not survive for long. But food is never just something to eat. It is something to find or hunt or cultivate first of all.

Isn't there any other part of the matzo you can eat?

Food is "everyday"-it has to be, or we would not survive for long. But food is never just something to eat. It is something to find or hunt or cultivate first of all; for most of human history we have spent a much longer portion of our lives worrying about food, and plotting, working, and fighting to obtain it, than we have in any other pursuit. As soon as we can count on a food supply (and so take food for granted), and not a moment sooner, we start to civilize ourselves.

Do not be afraid of simplicity. If you have a cold chicken for supper, why cover it with a tasteless white sauce which makes it look like a pretentious dish on the buffet table at some fance dress ball?

Meat is a status dish in which the sizzle counts for more than the nutritional worth.

One more drink and I'll be under the host.

A complete lack of caution is perhaps one of the true signs of a real gourmet: he has no need for it, being filled as he is with a God-given and intelligently self-cultivated sense of gastronomical freedom.

Neapolitans have always had their fast food. It's called pizza.

Clam chowder is one of those subjects, like politics or religion, that can never be discussed lightly. Bring it up even incidentally, and all the innumerable factions of the clam bake regions raise their heads and begin to yammer.

If there is anything we are serious about, it is neither religion nor learning, but food.