Dessert is to a meal what a dress is to a woman.

The quail was tender, the potatoes smothered in butter, and the beans roasted in garlic.

All those other girls are cake…I’m Crème brûlée…Tiramisu, if you will. Just a few notches above.

As the helpless vampire watched the transformation, it started screaming. It was still screaming when his rows of razor sharp teeth sank into its throat.

According to analyses conducted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 100 grams of fresh tomato today has 30 percent less vitamin C, 30 percent less thiamin, 19 percent less niacin, and 62 percent less calcium...

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...

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

Feel what it’s like to truly starve, and I guarantee that you’ll forever think twice before wasting food.

Hobbits always so polite, yes! O nice hobbits! Smeagol brings them up secret ways that nobody else could find. Tired he is, thirsty he is, yes thirsty; and he guides them and he searches for...

I buried the lasagna, because it was better than disposing of a dead body. I’ve been burned in a relationship, but never in an oven. I’ll try harder.

Man in his hunger for faith will feed his mind with the nearest and most convenient food.

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

I could never be a chef, because I could ‘t bare the thought of my art always turning to shit.

My definition of man is a cooking animal. The beasts have memory, judgement, and the faculties and passions of our minds in a certain degree; but no beast is a cook.

The big uncookable sections of who we are, they’re the ones I love to taste the most.

You found us, and then lied to us so you could get a job?

Love is all around. I don’t need your leftovers, ma’am. Not unless you’re offering meatloaf.

With the rising cost of food, either the portions get smaller, or the quality gets inferior. So, for example, pizza that used to taste like cardboard now tastes like carpet. Unvacuumed carpet, because I asked...

Try my all-you-can-eat vomit soup. Sadly, people don’t want seconds, because they don’t even want firsts. But it tastes great. I tasted it on the way down—and then again on the way up.

When there is extra to be eaten, I’ll be there, and I’ll be hungry. When there is more love than people to absorb it all, I’ll be there, and I’ll invite my clones.

No thanks. The one I have isn’t broken.

In my seminar ‘Wine Info’ I want to excite people about the fun of pairing wines with food and friends. I want to make people comfortable with labels and grapes and alcohol content so they...

I still have my little red hardcover notebook—spine now held in place by packing tape, pages dotted with cooking stains—filled with her loving instructions for mandelbrot, nut cake, and strudel.

Sunny did not eat the wood, of course, but she chewed on it and pretended it was a carrot, or an apple, or a beef and cheese enchilada, all of which she loved.

…it was one of the best meals we ever ate.Perhaps that is because it was the first conscious one, for me at least; but the fact that we remember it with such queer clarity must...

He had to be nice to me at the moment because he had to be surrounded by people. This was because boys like him were, essentially, pasta. Everyone thought they loved him because they had...

To eat or not to eat, that is the question: whether ’tis Nobler in the stomach to suffer the Slings and Arrows of outrageous Hunger (while keeping mouthparts in pristine kissing condition) or to take...

Tastes like something that rhymes with cat.” -Apollon

…he was fascinated by the mid-western/middle American phenomenon of recombinant cuisine. Rice Krispie Treats being a prototypical example in that they were made by repurposing other foods that had already been prepared (to wit, breakfast...

Wil ate without enthusiasm. His bacon tasted like nothing. Like a dead animal, fried. His eggs, aborted chickens.

Very simply, we subsidize high-fructose corn syrup in this country, but not carrots. While the surgeon general is raising alarms over the epidemic of obesity, the president is signing farm bills designed to keep the...

We moderns are great compartmentalizers, perhaps never more so than when hungry.

So a lot of our food went to the bottom of the sea.

Wickedness was like food: once you got started it was hard to stop; the gut expanded to take in more and more.

In Paris in the 1950s, I had the supreme good fortune to study with a remarkably able group of chefs. From them I learned why good French good is an art, and why it makes...

A burnt and experienced hands are more important than the vessels in the kitchen.

I always thought eating was a ridiculous activity anyway. I’d get out of it myself if I could, though you’ve got to do it to stay alive, they tell me.

There he got out the luncheon-basket and packed a simple meal, in which, remembering the stranger’s origin and preferences, he took care to include a yard of long French bread, a sausage out of which...

Food cannot cause you to put on weight, unless you think it can.

Food matters because it’s one of the things that forces us to live in this world — this tactile, physical, messy, and beautiful world — no matter how hard we try to escape into our...

I would love a sandwich,’ said Tybalt, with enough gravity to make it sound like a formal proclamation. Resolved: that we will have ham and cheese sandwiches.

Food can be a poison or a cure. Why would you choose to ingest toxins when you could be taking the world’s best detox medicine. For the purposes of detoxification, let me be clear; always...

She hadn’t known that the ability to make pancakes from scratch made a man brutally hot. Now she did.

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...

A lot of people are now looking for food that does not have any trans fats in it. We wanted to offer them a healthy choice. It’s something we’re becoming more conscious of.

t smells in. Let the smell of hot tarmac in the summer remind you of a meal you ate the first time you landed in a hot place, when the ground smelled like it was...

Well, Southerners like to eat well. You see, it’s an event when it’s done right.

I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.

We know, for instance, that there is a direct, inverse relationship between frequency of family meals and social problems. Bluntly stated, members of families who eat together regularly are statistically less likely to stick up...

A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.