Food Quotes

I don't try to match wine with food, I just drink what I like. And I think a lot of people are going towards that now, which never used to be in the past.

More than any other in Western Europe, Britain remains a country where a traveler has to think twice before indulging in the ordinary food of ordinary people.

I used to hang out by the food table at parties because you don't have to talk to anybody. If you do then you can talk about the food.

I'm not sure that some of the food purists are in touch with what really goes on in American households.

I like doing food as a focal point on my table. It is not like going out and buying flowers or candles, which are expensive.

Baking cookies is comforting, and cookies are the sweetest little bit of comfort food. They are very bite-sized and personal.

I only eat spicy food.

Not eating meat is a decision, eating meat is an instinct.

Don't make jokes about food.

Today, there are also buyers and sellers of all these energy commodities, just like there are buyers and sellers of food commodities and many other commodities.

At one point I had to shove as much food in my body as possible to pack on calories. My trainer wanted me to do six meals a day and not go two hours without eating. If I would cheat on eating one day, I could tell - I'd drop a few pounds.

I hate menus, I hate choosing food. I just want to be brought. Bring me dinner!

As a consequence while we had a roof over our heads, food on the table, and clothes to wear to school we were constantly conscious of being of modest means.

Each of us needs something - food, liquor, pot, whatever - to help us survive. Dracula needs blood.

Neither does man have gills for living in a water environment; yet it is not sinful to explore the depths of the oceans in search of food or other blessings.

From the simple stringing together of lemon garlands for the goddess Durga, to dividing the prasadam or blessed foods for the children first, I came to associate food not only with feminity, but also with purity and divinity.

I think wine is such a big universe that it's kind of like food - it's intimidating to a lot of people, myself included.

I came here because the city has a tradition and is a very respected food city.

Being a food show and being me, I always kicked it up a notch, which means I would always elevate the spice level or the complexity of a particular dish. So, it was always like we're going to kick this up a little bit.

Start with a clean grill. Keep it clean by brushing with a wire brush after preheating, and again after cooking. Make sure to oil your grates and your food before putting it on the grill to keep it from sticking.

Don't you have a machine that puts food into the mouth and pushes it down?

Bahrainis are better off than many other Arabs. We have a welfare state, everybody gets a salary whether they have a job or not. Electricity and food are subsidized; school and healthcare are free. And we don't differentiate between Bahrainis and foreigners. We are very proud of that.

A dead cow or sheep lying in a pasture is recognized as carrion. The same sort of a carcass dressed and hung up in a butcher's stall passes as food.

Food should be fun.

The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose.

My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry.

I'm not a food critic, and I'm not really an authority to write anything on food.

A lot of food criticism has a similar flavor to it, and I'm probably going to write about it in a different way.

It's easy to be lazy when there's food lying around backstage or there's a fast-food joint a couple blocks away. But if you walk a little further, ask around a bit, of course there are exciting things to discover.

I can get whatever I want to eat and when you, you know, you forget to eat you sometimes pick up fast food.