I’d rather eat nothing than eat a carrot.

…Food serves two parallel purposes: it nourishes and it helps you remember. Eating and storytelling are inseparable—the saltwater is also tears; the honey not only tastes sweet, but makes us think of sweetness; the matzo...

It’s a fun food, it’s easy. The popularity has gone coast to coast, border to border, driven by restaurants and retail. The ingredients, the ease of procuring them, the number of restaurants and food-service operations...

Plenty of foods inside my stomach.Soul is empty.

If God gives you a Quiznos, can I have a bite? No way. You have to pray for your own food.

Suffering… is not just lots of pain but pain amplified by distinctly human emotions such as regret, self-pity, shame, humiliation, and dread.

Other creatures receive food simply as fodder. But we take the raw materials of the earth and work with them—touch them, manipulate them, taste them, glory in their heady smells and colors, and then, through...

I know the look of an apple that is roasting and sizzling on the hearth on a winter’s evening, and I know the comfort that comes of eating it hot, along with some sugar and...

No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, the wisdom of cookbook writers.

How can a nation be called great if its bread tastes like kleenex?

People like to warn you that by the time you reach the middle of your life, passion will begin to feel like a meal eaten long ago, which you remember with great tenderness.

But it seems that I can tackle the most esoteric of recipes, the most elusive puff pastry, as long as I do not have to count the empty layers of loneliness building up inside.

Work is a vehicle with which man chases some fleeting destination called a full tummy.

Keep it simple, keep it tasty. Salt, pepper and garlic. Shallot another day, lemon grass for nextweek. Nutmeg and cinnamon every now and then.

Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.

Every restaurant is a theater, and the truly great ones allow us to indulge in the fantasy that we are rich and powerful. When restaurants hold up their end of the bargain, they give us...

In my lame pescetarian defense, it’s very hard to be a girl and say you won’t eat something. Refuse one plate of bacon-wrapped pork rinds and you’re anorexic. Accept them and you’re on the Atkins....

As I got closer to the fence, I held my shirt over my nose to block the smell. One stallion waded through the muck and whinnied angrily at me. He bared his teeth, which were...

If I liked food and disliked exercise as much as a 400 pound guy, I’d be a 400 pound guy.

The porters could always be coaxed to continue a little further through driving rain by the mere suggestion of a Pot Noodle at the end.

If you eat healthily most of the time you can afford to indulge yourself occasionally, but if you eat nothing but junk, you’ll end up not being able to run for a bus without huffing...

There is also a lot of construction and importation of foreign food items that is pulling the foreign exchange out of the system.

Today, if you pay a[n US] dollar for a pound of apples in the supermarketm only about six cents covers the farmwork used to get it there; (…)

But what little we did know, we brandished wildly like cavemen’s clubs, slinging out stuff we felt tasted good. That was as intricate as ourgame plan ever was—to make food that tasted good.

As of Jan. 1, any packaged food that does not have trans fatty acid labeling should not be sold.

Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don’t believe it. Seek out the memories depression takes away and project them into the future. Be brave;...

America, I know we have our problems. I realize that the scale and our waistlineare foremost among them. I’m willing to make concessions, I really am. I drink, and prefer, skim milk. I’ll take water...

I never consider myself to be a carnivore… I think souls qualify more like vegan or something.

It appears your son was 85 percent curry!

They are still there pouring over records and interviewing people, looking into both the plants food safety procedures and the degree to which Hudson’s has been forthcoming in providing timely and accurate information to the...

They have done it by really knowing their customers better than perhaps probably any other food retailer,

Psycholinguists argue about whether language reflects our perception of reality or helps create them. I am in the latter camp. Take the names we give the animals we eat. The Patagonian toothfish is a prehistoric-looking...

The Eleven king looked sternly upon Thorin, when he was brought before him, and asked him many questions. But Thorin would only say that he was starving. “Why did you and your folk three times...

Great restaurants are, of course, nothing but mouth-brothels. There is no point in going to them if one intends to keep one’s belt buckled.

Nobody knows the truffles I’ve seen.

People ate everyday, and often times they didn’t pause when standing in the fresh produce section of the grocery store to realize the magnitude of God’s earth that feeds them.

A natural person can achieve right diet because his instinct is in proper working order. He is satisfied with simple food; it is nutritious, tastes good, and is useful daily medicine. Food and the human...

The food in the South is as important as food anywhere because it defines a person’s culture.

Maybe your mind won’t remember what I cooked last week, but your body will.

Jason had joked that dust bunnies under the bed were pets he didn’t mind keeping: they never whined for food and didn’t require a litter box. They also didn’t wake you up at night by...

I made her a bathing suit—out of saran wrap. We made love like leftovers.

Every time I eat an English muffin I feel like I become more grammatically correct, more refined, more cultured, and an all-around gentleman.

She had blonde hair like spaghetti noodles, and then she went and dyed it marinara. But I loved her like I enjoy all-you-can-eat pasta buffets.

My love for you is like food for a statue. My love is like anything from McDonald’s, because it will never decay and always looks brand new.

I’ll eat this world like coffee-flavored bubblegum. I’ll chew thoroughly before I swallow.

If you’re a cannibal, an Olympic sprinter would be considered fast food.

Comfort foods they may have been, but helpful foods they most definitely were not. By merging my identity with certain foods and thinking of them as old friends, I found myself in the food equivalent...

Watch a French housewife as she makes her way slowly along the loaded stalls… searching for the peak of ripeness and flavor… What you are seeing is a true artist at work, patiently assembling all...

Every time I look at my wallet; I don’t care how much money is there, I just want to know, does it make for this time food?

Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.