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  Food Quotes - After a full belly all is poetry   “Hearts can't be broken because they're made of marzipan.” ― Kerstin Gier, Smaragdgrün   “New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.” ― Mark Twain   “The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one.” ― Erma Bombeck   “Life itself is the proper binge.” ― Julia Child   “Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cream makes it Russian; lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese; garlic makes it good.” ― Alice May Brock   “A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.” ― Elsa Schiaparelli   “Some people who are obsessed with food become gourmet chefs. Others become eating disorders.” ― Marya Hornbacher, Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia   “I've long believed that good food, good eating, is a...

  Food Quotes - My love is pizza shaped   “Hitch: making rules about drinking can be the sign of an alcoholic,' as Martin Amis once teasingly said to me. (Adorno would have savored that, as well.) Of course, watching the clock for the start-time is probably a bad sign, but here are some simple pieces of advice for the young. Don't drink on an empty stomach: the main point of the refreshment is the enhancement of food. Don't drink if you have the blues: it's a junk cure. Drink when you are in a good mood. Cheap booze is a false economy. It's not true that you shouldn't drink alone: these can be the happiest glasses you ever drain. Hangovers are another bad sign, and you should not expect to be believed if you take refuge in saying you can't properly remember last night. (If you really don't remember, that's an even worse sign.) Avoid all narcotics: these make you more boring rather than less and are not designed—as are the grape and the grain—to enl...

  Food Quotes - The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of the human race than the discovery of a star   “If you're afraid of butter, use cream.” ― Julia Child   “I don't know what it is about food your mother makes for you, especially when it's something that anyone can make - pancakes, meat loaf, tuna salad - but it carries a certain taste of memory.” ― Mitch Albom   “Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans ... are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit.” ― Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential : Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly   “We eat the year away. We eat the spring and the summer and the fall. We wait for something to grow and then we eat it.” ― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle   “Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight buzz of inspiration when read...

  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'...

  Food Quotes - Humor keeps us Alive   “Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg before it is broken.” ― M.F.K. Fisher   “Humor keeps us alive. Humor and food. Don't forget food. You can go a week without laughing.” ― Joss Whedon   “The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.” ― Julia Child   “You are what what you eat eats.” ― Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto   “I am a better person when I have less on my plate.” ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love   “Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!” ― Roald Dahl   “We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.” ― David Mamet, Boston Marriage   “Am I tough? Am I strong? Am I hard-core? Absolutely. Did I whimper with pathetic delight when I sank my teeth into my hot fri...