She’s a girl after my own heart. Food first, conversation later.

World-class cereal-eating is a dance of fine compromises. The giant heaping bowl of sodden cereal, awash in milk, is the mark of the novice. Ideally one wants the bone-dry cereal nuggets and the cryogenic milk...

As a leftover sixties liberal, I believe that the long arm and beady eyes of the government have no place in our bedrooms, our kitchens, or the backseats of our parked cars. But I also...

You are what what you eat eats.

. . . .how and what we eat determines to a great extent the use we make of the world–and what is to become of it. To eat with a fuller consciousness of all that...

In my opinion, if there is one extremely legitimate use for petroleum besides running wood chippers and front-end loaders to handle compost, it’s making plastic for season extension. It parks many of the trucks [for...

Killing a pig for a good old fry-up is one thing. But there’s no excuse for being cruel, even if you’re a bored teenage kid.

Good kitchens are not about size; they are about ergonomics and light.

And if that weren’t bad enough, the next sound he heard was a loud click.The damned woman had locked him out. She’d taken all the food and locked him out.”You’ll pay for this!” he yelled...

As Charles Darwin said, ‘The economy shown by Nature in her resources is striking,’ says the Spirit. ‘All wealth comes from Nature. Without it, there wouldn’t be any economics. The primary wealth is food, not...

The joy from eating does not come from the exclusivity of the food, but instead from the sensitivity that we eat it with.

The diet industry is making a lot of money selling us fad diets, nonfat foods full of chemicals, gym memberships, and pills while we lose a piece of our self-esteem every time we fail another...

After I was diagnosed with celiac disease, I said yes to food, with great enthusiasm. . . . I vowed to taste everything I could eat, rather than focusing on what I could not.

I’m like a stray cat. If you feed me, I don’t leave.

Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.

Our students and customers are increasingly aware of how their food is raised or produced. Moving to Certified Humane cage-free eggs complements our efforts to serve local and sustainable food when possible.

I love you like a fat kid loves cake!

You know, if I listened to him [Michael Dukakis] long enough, I would be convinced we’re in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we’ve got...

There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won’t, and that’s a wife who can’t cook and will.

It’s almost seems as though there’s a battle going on between the public and all the fast-food establishments, and, believe me, I think it’s very tasty food.

A robust regional food system that benefits eaters and farmers cannot be achieved in a marketplace that is controlled, top to bottom, by a few firms and that rewards only scale, not innovation, quality, or...

Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans … are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit.

The animal was detected on the farm where it was born and no part of this animal entered the food for human consumption or feed for animal consumption purposes.

Enjoy your Evening.””That will depend on the menu. If it’s beef, it will be a tolerable meal. If it’s chicken…” Elliot shuddered. “What is the point of chicken?””Eggs?

Don’t eat ’til you’re full; eat ’til you’re tired.

A man can sustain himself without food for few days but he can not live without water for a single day.

Early moralists who believed that taking too much pleasure at the table led inexorably to bad character-or worse, to sex-were (in the best-case scenario, anyway) absolutely right.

Theatres are curious places, magician’s trick-boxes where the golden memories of dramtic triumphs linger like nostalgic ghosts, and where the unexplainable, the fantastic, the tragic, the comic and the absurd are routine occurences on and...

One should not have to walk into a restaurant and greet the staff to get good service. They should be greeting me and give me good service.

What you think, what you eat, and what you see today, shapes who you will be tomorrow.

Great food also had the ability to attract great talent. “I don’t know what to do,” senior engineer Luiz Barroso moaned to Jeff Dean the night he had to decide whether to join VMWare or...

No one was irritable; we have never known anyone to remain unhappy while digesting a good meal. We enjoy lingering in a becalmed state, a kind of midpoint between the reverie of a thinker and...

A plate of roast duck, steamed dumplings, spicy noodles with beef gravy, pickled cucumbers, stewed tongue and eggs if you have them, cold please, and sticky rice pearls, too,’ Ai Ling said, before the server...

I had a dream about you. You were storing my brain in a pickle jar in the fridge, and I only discovered it when I went to garnish my hamburger. Mindless and hungry, I was...

I’m going to break one of the rules of the trade here. I’m going to tell you some of the secrets of improvisation. Just remember—it’s always a good idea to follow the directions exactly the...

Wolsey and Henry VIII, it has to be said, were not exceptional in their love of the table. The English of Tudor times had a reputation throughout Europe for gluttony. Indeed, overeating was regarded as...

Peanut butter and jelly is like the older, more serious brother to egg salad sandwich. I’m an only child, so I eat both with incredible sadness.

When trying to find the words to tell her how much I loved her, I stumbled across the ingredients for grilled cheese sandwiches. That’s when I realized she was the melted cheese to my toast....

I need to go to the grocery store because I’ve got nothing in my fridge but an old t-shirt, a pair of jeans, and a sweater (after all, it does get cold in the fridge).

A Taste of the Gulag.”

Finger food, is that food you eat with your fingers, or is that where you eat your fingers? I’m starving, but I also want to play the piano, so I need to know.

An inch of enchilada, as good as it is, is not even worth a centimeter of love. My feelings for you are hot, so you may need some sour cream.

Nobody peels a banana before stabbing themselves with it. But that’s exactly how I love—dangerously.

I am not a glutton – I am an explorer of food

I never touch sugar, cheese, bread… I only like what I’m allowed to like. I’m beyond temptation. There is no weakness. When I see tons of food in the studio, for us and for everybody,...

Smørbrød og øl, tarvelig men godt. Hør, jeg synes det skal være litt utsøkt!

Don’t be ridiculous. Brussels sprouts are awful. Jail is just jail.

In the past five to 10 years, there has been a real shift for more nutritional food provided at camps.

She glanced down at the contents of her plate. Just tell him what it is. Simple. Look at it and say what it is. “Sloppy Joe,” she managed.”Hmm,” he said, sounding doubtful. “May he rest...

Ironically, the utterly unselective omnivore — “I’m easy; I’ll eat anything” — can appear more socially sensitive than the individual who tries to eat in a way that is good for society.