You see, most people gain weight because they give into cravings. But when you easily (and without feeling like you’re depriving yourself) gain control, the extra weight comes off.

First we eat, then we do everything else.

The center [of the supermarket] is for boxed, frozen, processed, made-to-sit-on-your-shelf-for-months food. You have to ask yourself, “If this food is designed to sit in a box for month and months, what is it doing...

Mom has the Touch. She knows what flowers go with what occasions, what hors d’oeuvres work with what people. She believes passionately in the power of food to heal, restore, and stimulate relationships, and she...

To live, a man needs food, water, and a sharp mind.

body and soul” connection into the light

Toward the end of February 1954, James Beard was at work in his Greenwich Village kitchen doing what he most loved to do: cooking delicious meals.

The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think...

Even connoisseurship can have politics, Slow Food wagers, since an eater in closer touch with his senses will find less pleasure in a box of Chicken McNuggets than in a pastured chicken or a rare...

Pizza tastes as good as being skinny feels.

Meat isn’t murder, it’s delicious.

Decadent cooks go one step further and make sculptures of the food itself. If life is to be spent in pursuit of the extravagant, the extreme, the grotesque, the bizarre, then one’s diet should reflect...

Food and sex have been bound together for a long time. I guess this is due to the intimate connection between the two most powerful instincts that predominate in life: the instinct to survive and...

The landfill can serve as school of bad habits to teach bears to associate people with food.

HEALTHY EATING isn’t about counting fat grams, dieting, cleanses, and antioxidants; Its about eating food untouched from the way we find it in nature in a balanced way; Whole foods give us all that we...

Building and supporting these local economies is critical to our bottom line. As repeatedly proven by Building Alliances for Local Living Economies (BALLE), spending at a locally owned business on average keeps 68 out of...

I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regrettedmost of them, but never the potatoes that went with them.

Do not throw coins when beggars stretch their hands for alms; help them to become self-reliant. Provide food and shelter, love and care, for the sick and aged.

For sacred thoughts and sacred deeds, sacred food is essential.

Oh, pity the poor gluttonWhose troubles all beginIn struggling on and on to turnWhat’s out into what’s in.

No single food will make or break good health. But the kinds of food you choose day in and day out have a major impact.

The people who come to our food pantry have no food left at home. Considering the expense of fresh produce, we are providing something they wouldn’t have otherwise because they don’t have the money to...

We just want to assure people of the safety of the food supply.

If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.

The onion is the truffle of the poor.

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?

If you want to keep people happy, just keep the food and entertainment rolling.

Abignades or abegnadesA term used in te department of the Landes for the intestines of a goose cooked in its blood. Abegnades are found almost solely in the chalosse region, where they are eaten on...

On Earth one of the things that a large proportion of the locals is most proud of is this wonderful economic system which, with a sureness and certainty so comprehensive one could almost imagine the...

You might be offered oatcakes as well as bread (especially in the north). If these do not tempt you, consider eating “horse-bread.” This is made from a sort of flour of ground peas, bran, and...

For as long as I can remember, my father saved. He saves money, he saves disfigured sticks that resemble disfigured celebrities, and most of all, he saves food. Cherry tomatoes, sausage biscuits, the olives plucked...

God ordered the world and all things in it, and I ordered a pizza and all things on it.

No matter our age, everyone in our household knows that cooking and eating together is where the fun is

It is not necessary to have an extravagant food budget in order to serve things with variety and tastefully cooked. It is not necessary to have expensive food on the plates before they can enter...

Well I would have used silverware if you hadn’t sold all the forks and spoons to pay for your Ethel Merman addiction.”

It’s really become a hot button as far as a health food,

We fell in love like two medium pizzas in one large stomach. I wish dad would have saved a few slices for us.

Many Detroiters, for example, are beginning to see urban agriculture as a real part of the solution; to grow things right where people live, where they work, and definitely need healthier food on the table....

There are at least two sides to every issue, and I like my issues sunny side up. I also like bacon and toast on the side. Are you eating what I’m saying?

How do two retards eat a turd sandwich? Well, not by first wiping their ass with wheat bread like I showed them.

I am the food of love. And do you know what food that is? Distilled barley.

Grandpa used to like gravy on everything, including his pancakes. If love could be eaten, I’ll bet he’d prefer it with gravy on top. And I’d have to agree. Love would taste better with gravy.

I could make dinner with one hand. Especially if I was serving Masturbation Stew.

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.