I was not so comfortable with my new authority that I could say ‘We eat the chicken now!’ but the magus had seen that I was considering it…”My purse is full enough,” said the magus,...

Your body is a Temple. You are what you eat. Do not eat processed food, junk foods, filth, or disease carrying food, animals, or rodents. Some people say of these foods, ‘well, it tastes good’.Most...

Centuries of secularism have failed to transform eating into something strictly utilitarian. Food is still treated with reverence…To eat is still something more than to maintain bodily functions. People may not understand what that ‘something...

I went to a potluck. I brought my own pot—and luck. The pot was empty, just like my promise to bring food the next time.

Your fork is my shovel. I eat real estate and I drink coffee.

It is easy to think of potatoes, and fortunately for men who have not much money it is easy to think of them with a certain safety. Potatoes are one of the last things to...

The Decision…I wiped my hands on my pinaforenow sullied and stainednot crisp or pressedas it had been before…

People have their cultural reasons for eating meat, their traditional reasons, their likes and dislikes.

Well, Kessa, I am glad to see that you’re taking your body seriously. I shudder when I see the girls leaving class and heading for the nearest hamburger, coke, and French fry station.The thought of...

Everybody’s eating all my – brownies, granola, anything you eat cooked, I can find you raw.

Nicole had put on weight. This is the effect which, in three cases out of four, unhappiness has upon women. The process of eating guarantees at least the health of the body.

Never in my life had I seen such a slim nothing of a figure eat like such a terror.

We need a better way to talk about eating animals. We need a way that brings meat to the center of public discussion in the same way it is often at the center of our...

Eating is so intimate. It’s very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you’re inviting a person into your life.

A goddess does not need to eat and does so only for her pleasure.

Neighbours complaining about someone’s dog making an awful racket. You could hardly blame the poor beast, its owner had died in her bed at least a fortnight before and there hadn’t been much left of...

The radio signal was scrambled, and so were my eggs. I got tired of eating commercial breaks for breakfast.

When you believe without knowing you believe that you are damaged at your core, you also believe that you need to hide that damage for anyone to love you. You walk around ashamed of being...

So often, even when we stop to say a blessing before a meal, we’re mentally preparing to spoon some pasta or potatoes onto our plates. We’re not usually focused on the present moment, simply placing...

My refrigerator is full of kale and greens. I can’t imagine something greasy, or eating meat.

I am doing everything to be fit – like not eating oily food, doing yoga, gymming and consulting my doc.

Shame is a soul eating emotion.

Don’t be polite.Bite in.Pick it up with your fingers and lick the juice that may run down your chin. It is ready and ripe now, whenever you are. You do not need a knife or...

We made love like I made breakfast—a breakfast for one. Still, when I eat alone is when I have the best conversations.

…having bowed to the inevitability of the dictum that we must eat to live, we should ignore it and live to eat…

The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think...

Confronted with the problems that characterize our herding culture, we are perhaps like the metaphorical man wounded by an arrow that the Buddha discussed with his students. He said that the man would be foolish...

Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss of death.

It’s because I’m pregnant, Christian.”He snorts, and his mouth twists into an ironic smile. “If I knew getting you knocked up was going to make you eat, I might have done it earlier.

There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony.

We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.

Not responding is a response–we are equally responsible for what we don’t do. In the case of animal slaughter, to throw your hands in the air is to wrap your fingers around a knife handle.

Meat isn’t murder, it’s delicious.

I am inclined to think that eating is a private thing and should be done alone, like other bodily functions.

Eating is not a crime. It’s not a moral issue. It’s normal. It’s enjoyable. It just is.

I am thankful when I am hungry because then I know that when I eat, the food will taste better. Life has taught me that my true contentment rests in hope, and the pleasure itself...

There are at least two sides to every issue, and I like my issues sunny side up. I also like bacon and toast on the side. Are you eating what I’m saying?

. . . hell is wanting to be somewhere different from where you are. Being one place and wanting to be somewhere else . . . . Wanting life to be different from what it...

Our culture tries to convince us on just about every front that more is better. More is a sign of wealth, luxury, power. Gone are the days when meals were moments of connection and conversation;...

I stayed there on the floor like that for a long, long time.Eating and crying.Crying and eating.

Well Sarah’s on drugs again and that’s why she did it in Mario’s backseat, but now she might be pregnant, oh, and that messed-up Seth kid’s been cutting himself again so he was sent away...

Like I’ve been eating Styrofoam.

I waited for him to come out. He didn’t. I considered going in after him, but knew the fact that I had readied myself to kill him did not mean that he had readied himself...

The Italians say ciao. The Chinese say Chow. And the Americans chow while they say stuff.

But if you’re gonna dine with them cannibalsSooner or later, darling, you’re gonna get eaten . . .

Eating is an agricultural act,’ as Wendell Berry famously said. It is also an ecological act, and a political act, too. Though much has been done to obscure this simple fact, how and what we...

When it comes to eating, you can sometimes help yourself more by helping yourself less.

Food, the stoking-up process, the keeping alive of an individual flame, the process that begins before birth and is continued after it by the mother, and finally taken over by the individual himself, who goes...

…the restaurant itself is weird especially because of a big raunch mad thicklipped sloppy young Fillipino woman sitting alone at the end of the restaurant gobbling up her food obscenely and looking at us insolently...

Firekeeper still could not understand the human penchant for eating in company. Even less so, she could not understand the human desire to combine business and meals.True, a wolf pack shared a kill, but not...