Food
Quotes - I am not a glutton - I am an explorer of food
“There
is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a
wife who can't cook and will.”
―
Robert Frost
“I
am not a glutton - I am an explorer of food”
―
Erma Bombeck
“How
can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?”
―
Charles de Gaulle
“You
can't just eat good food. You've got to talk about it too. And you've got to
talk about it to somebody who understands that kind of food.”
―
Kurt Vonnegut, Jailbird
“As
I got closer to the fence, I held my shirt over my nose to block the smell. One
stallion waded through the muck and whinnied angrily at me. He bared his teeth,
which were pointed like a bear's.
I
tried to talk to him in my mind. I can do that with most horses.
Hi,
I told him. I'm going to clean your stables. Won't that be great?
Yes!
The horse said. Come inside! Eat you! Tasty half-blood!
But
I'm Poseidon's son, I protested. He created horses.
Usually
this gets me VIP treatment in the equestrian world, not this time.
Yes!
The horse agreed enthusiastically. Poseidon can come in, too! We will eat you
both! Seafood!
Seafood!
The other horses chimed in as they waded through the field.”
―
Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth
“I
breathe in slowly. Food is life. I exhale, take another breath. Food is life.
And that's the problem. When you're alive, people can hurt you. It's easier to
crawl into a bone cage or a snowdrift of confusion. It's easier to lock
everybody out.
But
it's a lie.”
―
Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls
“The
most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the
family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.”
―
Calvin Trillin
“As
I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic
taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the
succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed
it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to
be happy and to make plans.”
―
Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
“He
showed the words “chocolate cake” to a group of Americans and recorded their
word associations. “Guilt” was the top response. If that strikes you as
unexceptional, consider the response of French eaters to the same prompt:
“celebration.”
―
Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
“Do
we really want to travel in hermetically sealed popemobiles through the rural
provinces of France, Mexico and the Far East, eating only in Hard Rock Cafes
and McDonalds? Or do we want to eat without fear, tearing into the local stew,
the humble taqueria's mystery meat, the sincerely offered gift of a lightly
grilled fish head? I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything
once.”
―
Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
“Anything
is good if it's made of chocolate.”
― Jo
Brand
“You're
thinking I'm one of those wise-ass California vegetarians who is going to tell
you that eating a few strips of bacon is bad for your health. I'm not. I say
its a free country and you should be able to kill yourself at any rate you
choose, as long as your cold dead body is not blocking my driveway.”
―
Scott Adams
“You
have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in
the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.”
―
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Music
with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.”
― G.
K. Chesterton
“If
this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me
some coffee.”
―
Abraham Lincoln
“While
Leo fussed over his helm controls, Hazel and Frank relayed the story of the
fish-centaurs and their training camp.
'Incredible,'
Jason said. 'These are really good brownies.'
'That's
your only comment?' Piper demanded.
He
looked surprised. 'What? I heard the story. Fish-centaurs. Merpeople. Letter of
intro to the Tiber River god. Got it. But these brownies--'
'I
know,' Frank said, his mouth full. 'Try them with Ester's peach preserves.'
'That,'
Hazel said, 'is incredibly disgusting.'
'Pass
me the jar, man,' Jason said.
Hazel
and Piper exchanged a look of total exasperation. Boys.”
―
Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena
“Training
is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but
cabbage with a college education.”
―
Mark Twain
“Give
a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy
a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you're a consultant.”
―
Scott Adams
“You
can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans. ”
―
Ronald Reagan
“The
beet is the most intense of vegetables. The radish, admittedly, is more
feverish, but the fire of the radish is a cold fire, the fire of discontent not
of passion. Tomatoes are lusty enough, yet there runs through tomatoes an
undercurrent of frivolity. Beets are deadly serious.
Slavic
peoples get their physical characteristics from potatoes, their smoldering
inquietude from radishes, their seriousness from beets.
The
beet is the melancholy vegetable, the one most willing to suffer. You can't
squeeze blood out of a turnip...
The
beet is the murderer returned to the scene of the crime. The beet is what
happens when the cherry finishes with the carrot. The beet is the ancient
ancestor of the autumn moon, bearded, buried, all but fossilized; the dark
green sails of the grounded moon-boat stitched with veins of primordial plasma;
the kite string that once connected the moon to the Earth now a muddy whisker
drilling desperately for rubies.
The
beet was Rasputin's favorite vegetable. You could see it in his eyes.”
―
Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume
