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.

Health food makes me sick.

Am I alone in this mother-food connection or does being with your mom trigger the sudden and voracious need for large amounts of mac & cheese, rice pudding, and the scraps along the side of...

This story about good food begins in a quick-stop convenience market.

Może dokładkę duszonego żebraka?Rozkojarzona pokręciła głową i spojrzała bezmyślnie na pusty talerz. I wtedy zamarła. W ogrodzie służący zbierali ciała i zabierali je do środka.-Powiedziałeś żeberka, prawda?

The potatoes were starch grenades. The canned carrots were revolting because that is their nature.

I am a better person when I have less on my plate.

Despite the strong domestic demand, high oil prices and rising food prices, inflation remains relatively benign at both producer and consumer levels.

crave” animal-based meat, dairy, and eggs, but we do crave fat, salt, flavor, texture, and familiarity.

In my food world, there is no fear or guilt, only joy and balance. So no ingredient is ever off-limits. Rather, all of the recipes here follow my Usually-Sometimes-Rarely philosophy. Notice there is no Never.

Leave me with my leftover meatloaf and my Yesterday Sandwich. I’ll be in love tomorrow, if you come back with the ketchup.

It’s been said that men think only about sex and food. And some men, like my uncle Lester, think about sex with food. Needless to say the church has ordered him to cease bringing his...

We’re not so different, you and I. Sure, we may have different religious beliefs, political outlooks, sexual orientations, economic viewpoints, and artistic/literary/culinary tastes, but deep down we both want the same thing: To be loved...

He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.

To food people, this is like making the Olympic team,

If you go to Singapore or Amsterdam or Seoul or Buenos Aires or Islamabad or Johannesburg or Tampa or Istanbul or Kyoto, you’ll find that the people differ wildly in the way they dress, in...

Many a one has been comforted in their sorrow by seeing a good dish come upon the table.

To make my meal in a box taste better, I decided to tweak the logo, rather than the ingredients.

Keep it, compliments of the house. We all pitched in to give you that. Too bad we couldn’t come up with 80,000 more.

You can have your cake, but you can’t eat it. You have to sit there and watch me scarf it down.

There should be a soup spoon on the end of fire truck ladders, because fires do nothing if they don’t warm up leftovers.

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

Friendship is like putting butter on your socks before you slide them on. Sure, we all do it occasionally, but most of us would rather eat breakfast bare-handed at least once in a while.

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.

Because of the potential hazard of food-borne illness from consumption of meat products contaminated with pathogens such as the E. coli bacteria, I urge consumers who have purchased the suspect product not to eat it...

Nu var det bare to ting vi kunde få fat på i sjåen, det var flatbrød og sild. Og ikke engang dette kunde vi ta noget videre av uten at det ble savnet; men vi...

Some of the amphitheaters have big ticket fees and high services fees and big parking prices and high food and beverage prices, … You can go to a minor-league ballpark where a beer is $3...

El mexicano es, quizá, el único pueblo del mundo al que le gusta comer con dolor. Sí: dolor, porque, aun cuando nuestro gusto adquirido hace que, benévolamente, lo llamemos acrimonia, sazón o picorcito, lo que...

Do you see a theme emerging? Women like flowers; men like food!

It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.

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...

sit yourself down and stop fussing. You’re reminding me of my Aunt Glynna with all this temperature takin’ and foil tuckin’. This food is fine.

What do you most wish for, Izzy?” “Herbs and salads, and fish straight from the river. A man needs no more than such pleasures.

So this is what commodity corn can do to a cow: industrialize the miracle of nature that is a ruminant, taking this sunlight- and prairie grass-powered organism and turning it into the last thing we...