Thanksgiving dinner’s sad and thankless. Christmas dinner’s dark and blue. When you stop and try to see it From the turkey’s point of view.Sunday dinner isn’t sunny. Easter feasts are just bad luck. When you...

We are all warned to read labels. The salutary truth is that we shouldn’t be eating anything that has a label on it!

Our food bank in New Orleans is completely inaccessible, so the staff that works there isn’t even able to do some damage assessment to find out what’s there.

The myriad of flavors explode on my tongue, shimmy through my mouth, slap my taste buds and call them filthy bastards, and I love it.

Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.

Eating with the fullest pleasure – pleasure, that is, that does not depend on ignorance – is perhaps the profoundest enactment of our connection with the world. In this pleasure we experience our dependence and...

If you seek for supreme predator, go find God. He hunts the prime killer of mankind, the Satan.

Fat is sexy.” Enrolling all our sex addicts in culinary school may be the best way of dealing with obesity. Every meal of the day would be candlelit, every course would be dessert, and our...

…to give a clear picture of the whole scene of Italian gastronomy.

The playwright Edward Albee has characterized [the suddenness of the appearance of fruits and flowers in evolutionary history] as ‘that heartbreaking second when it all got together: the sugars and the acids and the ultraviolets,...

I was lucky to live in the 20th century, when gefilte fish could be purchased in a jar.

We have had for breakfast, toasts, cakes, a yorkshire pie, a piece of beef about the size and much the shape of my portmanteau, tea, coffee, ham and eggs…

Nothing rekindles my spirits, gives comfort to my heart and mind, more than a visit to Mississippi… and to be regaled as I often have been, with a platter of fried chicken, field peas, collard...

Until-as often happened during those first months travel, whenever I would feel such happiness-my guilt alarm went off. I heard my ex-husband’s voice speaking disdainfully in my ear: So this is what you gave up...

People may be going down the food chain at this point.

Am I tough? Am I strong? Am I hard-core? Absolutely. Did I whimper with pathetic delight when I sank my teeth into my hot fried-chicken sandwich? You betcha.

Looks are so deceptive that people should be done up like food packages with the ingredients clearly labeled

I didn’t set out to discover Truth. I was simply hungry and digging deep in the back of the fridge and boom! there it was. And I’ve got to tell you, the Truth was tasty.

Simple natural food is far better than sophisticated food with artificial flavors.

Water quench thirsts, food quenches hunger while sex quenches lust or love

I had eggs for breakfast. I ate them off the hood of a politician’s car, after I threw them there.

I had a dream about you. I was a melted ice-cream repairman, and you had a microwave for a head. You made fun of my trade, so I made you eat tinfoil until your head...

Nine out of ten people agree, it was right and just to kill and eat that one guy. That’s love. That’s democracy. That’s a free dinner.

Some people smoked crack in alleyways. Franny ate chocolate. On the scale of things, it seemed entirely reasonable.

If you’re hungry, eat one of my new starvation pills. They taste like silence.

I’ve eaten cat food before. Of course, the menu listed it as “Chicken Lo Mein.

Social progress: for the same price as last year, I get a slimmer candy bar, less chips per bag, and I have to walk a little further to work, because to spend the same amount...

Chicken is Good! It tastes like chicken.

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.

This is the crepe. This is the cider. This is how we live and eat.

Though their life was modest, they believed in eating well.

A block of blood should not have the word “cake” after it…they might as well say “shite gateau

That’s how it is for us servants. No one pays you much heed; mostly you’re invisible as furniture. Yet you overhear a conversation here, and add a little gossip there. A writing desk lies open...

You may feel that you have eaten too much…But this pastry is likefeathers – it is like snow. It is in fact good for you, a digestive!

Nebylo tu nic pořádného k snědku, bylo to jenom velké akvárium, jehož stěny tvořily místo skleněných tabulí ze dvou stran břehy, dole písek, a nahoře nebe. A kolem dokola kvetly pomněnky a říkali vzpomínej.

On cheap tippers:”Don’t take it personally; they were deprived somehow as children.On low-fat entrees: “They sell well enough, but nobody’s too happy after the meal.

I love the phrase “I have a sweet tooth.” I always want to say, “You’re ordering it for your tooth? That’s interesting, because it’s going straight to your butt. I think your butt owed your...

not every breakfast needs to be something worthy of posting to a food blog. Sometimes food is simply fuel, something we eat to live. But with TV ads and billboards and in-store displays saying otherwise—in...

A burrito is a delicious food item that breaks down all social barriers and leads to temporary spiritual enlightenment.

we ask for too much salvation by legislation. All we need to do is empower individuals with the right philosophy and the right information to opt out en masse. (quoting Joel Salatin)

A growing body of research suggests that many of the health problems associated with eating beef are really problems with corn-fed beef.

You, as a food buyer, have the distinct privilege of proactively participating in shaping the world your children will inherit.

You are what you eat and read.

Wait. Why am I thinking about Krispy Kremes? We’re supposed to be exercising.

Inhabitants of urban industrial cultures have no point of contact with grain, chickens, cows, or, for that matter, with topsoil. We have no basis of experience to outweigh the arguments of political vegetarians. We have...

Food didn’t kill people, for God’s sake, people killed people. With their harping, and criticizing, and careful living.

After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.

Food stall owners reach out with menus, calling out their dinner selections like midway prizes

I don’t drink coffee I take tea my dearI like my toast done on one side …”(Englishman in New York)

Cookies don’t make us fat. They’re not to blame for our obesity epidemic. You know what else isn’t to blame? Fast food, chips, candy, technology, soda, or anything else. The choices we make over a...