What I've enjoyed most, though, is meeting people who have a real interest in food and sharing ideas with them. Good food is a global thing and I find that there is always something new and
amazing to learn - I love it!
- Jamie Oliver
Laughter is brightest, in the place where the food is.
- An Irish Proverb
Where would we be without salt?
- James A. Beard
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
- Virginia Woolf
All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.
- John Gunther
Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the
evolution to a vegetarian diet.
- Albert Einstein
A Zen blessing at mealtime:
"In this plate of food, I see the entire universe supporting my existence."
A mealtime blessing from the Taittiriya Upanishad:
"From food all creatures are produced, and all creatures that dwell on the earth, by food they live and into food they finally pass. Food is the chief among beings. Verily he obtains all good who worships the Divine as food."
The four seasons are salt, pepper, mustard and vinegar.
Non ut edam vivo, sed vivam edo. I do not live to eat, but eat to live.
- Quintilianus, Instituitio oratoria
There is no love sincerer than the love of food.
- George Bernard Shaw
When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
- Chinese proverb
Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork.
- English Proverb
Drinking: Water, Tea, Beverages, Alcohol. - Quotes for Gardeners
There are no secrets.It's just we thought that they said dead when they said bread.
- John Cage
A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunchand an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.
- Aldous Huxley
The food of the future will be fruits and grains.
The time will come when meat will no longer be eaten ...
our natural food is that which grows out of the ground.
- A View on Ecology, Baha'i Faith
In vino veritas.
In the vine, the truth.
Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
- Anonymous
Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living,
but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Grain crops, or cereals, are by far the most important sources of plant food for the human race. On a world wide basis, they provide two-thirds of the energy and half the protein of the diet.
- The New Oxford Book of Food Plants, xvi, 1997, by J. G . Vaughan and C. A. Geissler.
These crops are: wheat, rice, maize (corn), oats, barley, rye, sorghum, and millet.
Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.
- Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it's apt to give a person wind and self-righteousness.
- Robert Hutchinson
My mother's menu consisted of two choices:
Take it or leave it.
- Buddy Hackett
The act of putting into your mouth what the earth has grown
is perhaps your most direct interaction with the earth.
- Frances Moore Lappe
It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.
- Lewis Grizzard
I will not eat anything that walks, runs, skips, hops or crawls.
God knows that I've crawled on occasion, and I'm glad that no one ate me.
- Alex Poulos
"An entomologist is not a bug." - Kenneth Rexroth
A gardener is not a plant - or is she? - Pulling Onions
It’s not that chocolates are a substitute for love. Love is a substitute for chocolate. Chocolate is, let’s face it, far more reliable than a man.
- Miranda Ingram
A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.
- Margaret Fuller
Watermelon -- it's a good fruit. You eat, you drink, you wash your face.
- Enrico Caruso
"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. "
- Jeff Smith, The Frugal Gourmet, oddly appropos
No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
- Channing Pollock
One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.
- Luciano Pavarotti and William Wright
For the chocolate lover in most of us, this anonymous quote is among favorites, "There are four basic food groups: milk chocolate, dark chocolate, white chocolate and chocolate truffles”.
- Anonymous
"I never met a chocolate I didn’t like". Unfortunately, for the many chocolate lovers among us, this seems to be true for a lot of chocolate fanatics.
- Deanna Troi said in Star Trek
The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
- James Thurber
Friends are like melons, shall I tell you why? To find a good one you must a hundred try.
- Claude Mermet
Lettuce is like conversation: it must be fresh and crisp,
and so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.
- Charles Dudley Warner