Food and eating often mask our pain, our inner longing for God, for acceptance. It is key to know our motivation for eating as well as for other actions. Why do I eat? Am I...

Food, a French man told me once, is the first wealth. Grow it right, and you feel insanely rich, no matter what you own.

You know, that was what we missed most. Not our beds, not our homes, not even our mothers. We would talk about food.

As long as one egg looks pretty much like another, all the chickens like chicken, and beef beef, the substitution of quantity for quality will go unnoticed by most consumers, but it is becoming increasingly...

Because cooks love the social aspect of food, cooking for one is intrinsically interesting. A good meal is like a present, and it can feel goofy, at best, to give yourself a present. On the...

How good it is, when you have roast meat or suchlike foods before you, to impress on your mind that this is the dead body of a fish, this the dead body of a bird...

What ees thees? Zee cheese, it does not eat.

The German birds didn’t taste as good as their French cousins, nor did the frozen Dutch chickens we bought in the local supermarkets. The American poultry industry had made it possible to grow a fine-looking...

In my experience, anybody besides your mom that feeds you is going to want something in exchange for it.

Knowledge is the food of the soul.

A healthy man watched what he ate. An intelligent man watched what he watched.

I didn’t know you could fry toast,” I remarked, to which Kev replied that there wasn’t a food he was aware of that couldn’t be improved by frying.

A good man would never harm or oppress another. A good man will share his last morsel of food with others in need, and die of hunger when he no longer has any food –...

Opening her mouth to take a bite seemed forward. Chewing? Obscene. Mutual mastication was out of the question.

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.

It was 2:00 p.m., too early for wine but not for chocolate.

Just eat some chex mix and have a glass of milk and you’ll be fine.

We worked side by side building our sandwiches. Mine, just a few modest layers of meat and cheese, with a bit of lettuce for some added crunchiness; his, a Dagwood, piled high with turkey, ham,...

A Marketplace store’s overall sales volume is typically double to triple what an average Kroger food and drug combo store would do.

Hasty Pudding is no small potatoes (sorry to mix the food references), known for its famous alumni and much-hyped annual awards ceremonies. One year Mel Gibson recited Hamlet and escaped from a straitjacket. Tom Cruise...

But if you like, you can come share a tasty meal of bread, raisins, and fresh Burgos cheese. With that, and The Count of Monte Cristo, anyone can live to a hundred.

Let us not take what we eat for granted; let us view our meals as an opportunity to give our Lord praise.

When you celebrate, there is sure to be cake.”Florence Ditlow, in “The Bakery Girls.

Harry had worked his way through the American Dream and come to the conclusion that is was composed of a good lunch and a deep red wine that could soar.

I am the broth of love. Make soup to me.

The beautiful part about killing someone with an icicle is the murder weapon melts and then evaporates. And your assassination can be fruit flavored!

You are eating the sea, that’s it, only the sensation of a gulp of sea water has been wafted out of it by some sorcery, and you are on the verge of remembering you don’t...

Poor, darling fellow-he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table.

I’ll be busy for the next eight weeks, so let’s set this for November 15th.MENUI want lamb or venison steak. Baked potatoes with honey butter. Corn on the cob. Rolls. And apple pie, like the...

A crisp roast chicken would set the world aright.

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.