Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious.

I lurched away from the table after a few hours feeling like Elvis in Vegas – fat, drugged, and completely out of it.

Kula sana ni kujichimbia kaburi kwa meno yako mwenyewe.

I am born hungry. Ravenous. I want to eat the world, and I can never be satiated.

I don’t believe you have to have eating disorders and mental illness to screw up.

When we infuse our actions with a focus on God and on the many blessings we receive in even the most mundane moments of our lives, we create sacred rituals that bring a sense of...

Eating was hard.Breathing was hard. Living was hardest.

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?...

that I will start with feeding you proper and then proceed with more…pestiferous acts.”I smiled through the confusion. I’d have to look up that word later.

My favorite animal is steak.

When I go out to eat at restaurants, I don’t like chains. I prefer whips.

Weight (too much or too little) is a by-product. Weight is what happens when you use food to flatten your life. Even with aching joints, it’s not about food. Even with arthritis, diabetes, high blood...

No food is edible, if you don’t feel like eatingStanding is incredible, if you hate sitting

What is with these guys? Where’s the thrill in watching snakes eat?I certainly didn’t thrill in watching humans eat.

Eaters of Wonder BreadMust be underbred.So little to eat.Where’s the wheat?

There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read—unless it be reading while you eat. Amabel did both: they are not the same thing, as you will see if you think the matter over.

Overeating at Thanksgiving is a case in point. It’s a national tradition.

When money for food is scarce, I’ve got to start tightening my belt. And if I keep getting skinnier from not eating, I’ll have to tighten my belt even further.

He had the red serviette tucked into his t-shirt at the neck which made me laugh. He hadn’t done this since our third date when I had told him off for his bad manners.

It’s all very Italian (and decidedly un-American): to insist that doing the right thing is the most pleasurable thing, and that the act of consumption might be an act of addition rather than subtraction.

A thousand years ago the Chinese had an entirely codified kitchen while the French were still gnawing on bones. Chopsticks have been around since the fourth century B.C. Forks didn’t show up in England until...

Those were the people who made her something, and without them she was different. She’d held on to them and to that old self tenaciously, though. She clung to it, celebrated it, worshipped it even,...

Can you taste it Bruce? Can you taste the filth, the dirt, the oily blackness of that fossil fuel in our mouth as you choke and gag and spit it out? Do you still hear...

Nearly everyone wants as least one outstanding meal a day.

I am the one who got myself fat, who did all the eating. So I had to take full responsibility for it.

When we link our eating and our prayer and begin to see food as part of a much bigger picture, rather than the focal point of our entire lives, we reshape the way we think,...

The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for the steak to cook.

Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.

Too many of us take great pains with what we ingest through our mouths, and far less with what we partake of through our ears and eyes.

When it was cooler, Trazada made a simple meal of sausage, cheese, and bread. She had schooled herself to wait dinner until hunger urged her to eat; it gave seasoning to poor food that no...

My tears are salty. I shouldn’t eat potato chips while drinking my Cry Water, because it only makes me thirstier for your love.

Our work is not to change what you do, but to witness what you do with enough awareness, enough curiosity, enough tenderness that the lies and old decisions upon which the compulsion is based become...

I want a big breakfast,” said Fuchsia at last. “I want a lot to eat, I’m going to think today.

Mámá was fond of saying that nothing tastes as good as skinny feels—an aphorism I was pretty sure she’d cribbed from the thinspiration sites she subscribed to online—but I believed that anyone who said such...

And his words fell upon the table like a blessing.

In geometry, whenever we had to find the area of a circle, pi * radius squared, I would get really hungry for pie. Square pie.

His meals were always punctual. Whether she cooked well or badly he did not know; it was a matter of total indifference to him. During his meals, which he ate at his writing desk, he...

Instead of complimentary breakfasts, why not complimentary compliments? Telling someone they’re looking skinny is sure to help them lose weight faster and feel better than, you know, actually eating.

They say you should treat your body like a temple. I treat mine like a fast-moving dumpster.

Reversing the historical trajectory of human eating, for this meal the forest would be feeding us again.

Opening her mouth to take a bite seemed forward. Chewing? Obscene. Mutual mastication was out of the question.

When I stepped into the brown-tiled entryway of the Kentwood Public Library, the sunlight flowing down on me from the high windows, I felt a sense of importance. It gratified me to be in a...

Kula sana kunaweza kusababisha virutubisho kuzidi mwilini zaidi ya kiwango kinachohitajika na mwili, ambavyo baadaye vinaweza kusababisha madhara ya papo kwa hapo kama tumbo kuuma au tumbo kujaa gesi! Baada ya muda mrefu wingi wa...

Always make time to eat. Always. There’s enough starving children in the world without adding to their number

One of my favourite things about dining outdoors in a warmer season is that it frees hands and bares skin. … When we don’t need to wear or carry heavy clothing, our bodies feel lighter...

Even if you can’t be totally mindful at every meal, if you can say a blessing, silently if necessary, or offer up a prayer for someone, something beyond yourself and your food, the prayer helps...

…I have become more interested than ever in the effect of a diet higher in ‘greens’ than it is in meat – both in terms of my own wellbeing and, more recently, those implications that...

If I had a partner who asked when I was going to the gym or commented that I was eating too much or asked if I really needed an extra potato, that would make me...

Everything eaten is killed. Every meal is a sacrifice.

Eating connects us to our histories as much as it connects our souls to our bodies, our bodies to the earth.