They all know the truth, that there are only three subjects worth talking about. At least here in these parts,” he says, “The weather, which, as they’re farmers, affects everything else. Dying and birthing, of...

12% of employees eat because they are hungry. 88% of employees eat because it is 1 o’clock.

My mother use to say she would rather be dead than not eat the foods she liked. At eighty-six she met with death but she enjoyed every breath

Hearts can’t be broken because they’re made of marzipan.

…it was so rich and exotic I was seduced into taking one bite and then another as I tried to chase the flavors back to their source.

You know, the act of feeding someone is the ultimate act of care and affection…sharing yourself with someone else through food.” He held another mouthful of cake under her nose. “Think about it. We are...

After a while I got hungry and went to the kitchen. There was nothing to eat. I drank another beer and looked again, and found half a loaf of whole wheat bread behind the beer...

Malnutrition can be as common in poverty as in wealth, one for the lack of food, the other for the lack of knowledge of food.

If hot food is they key to maintaining an expedition’s stamina, then low grade gut-rot alcohol is the key to sustaining its sense of pleasure.

Eating is an agricultural act.

A good motto in life, he’d reckoned, was: don’t eat anything that glows.

Garlic is divine. Few food items can taste so many distinct ways, handled correctly. Misuse of garlic is a crime. Old garlic, burnt garlic, garlic cut too long ago and garlic that has been tragically...

By the 1920s if you wanted to work behind a lunch counter you needed to know that ‘Noah’s boy’ was a slice of ham (since Ham was one of Noah’s sons) and that ‘burn one’...

It is good to dress in fair clothes to dine with friends. It honors your host, if you are a guest; and your guest if you are a host. And both adorn the feast, and...

Počkej. To mi chceš naznačit, že došly ředkvičky?

Water is the most important thing — there’s always food in the house.

Life is too short to eat food that doesn’t taste good.

It was a delicious meal — skim milk, wheat middlings, leftover pancakes, half a doughnut, the rind of a summer squash, two pieces of stale toast, a third of a gingersnap, a fish tail, one...

We combine our three packs of pasta for dinner – pesto. We tip the dried stuff into a pan, add water and simmer. We try it, looking at each other with disbelief as it hits...

These are delicious! What are they?””Double chocolate chip with peanut butter filling.””They’re the second best thing I’ve ever tasted.”I laughed. “You said the same thing at dinner.””I recently readjusted the ranking.

When he’s hot, he’s hot; when he’s not, he’s not. But at least there is always food

I went to a potluck. I brought my own pot—and luck. The pot was empty, just like my promise to bring food the next time.

A good meal soothes the soul as it regenerates the body.From the abundance of it flows a benign benevolence.

As much as I would love to know what you know, I’d much rather eat your brain with a spoon.

Some breakfast food manufacturer hit upon the simple notion of emptying out the leavings of carthorse nose bags, adding a few other things like unconsumed portions of chicken layer’s mash, and the sweepings of racing...

Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; and good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts.

By the middle of Henry VIII’s reign, the white meats — that is, dairy products — were considered common fare and people from all classes would eat meat whenever they could get it.

Don’t wanna ever take your shoes off in coconut land. Never know when you’re gonna have to run.

I’m building a hot air balloon out of my love for you. I’m starting with the hot air, and then I’m going to surround that with saran wrap, because after all, I’m only using leftovers.

Two days ago, Tuesday at 10:10 am, I gave birth to a bagel. And God commanded me to slice up my only begotten bagel in two, and who am I to argue with God? So...

But if she could be here, she probably wouldn’t be here. But that won’t stop me from ordering for two, and if I can’t eat it all I’ll take the leftovers home so I can...

Things I can’t live without: food, water, love. But not her love, because I haven’t had that in a long time, yet I’m still alive.

I made dinner reservations for two, because I like eating alone. And I drink coffee by the bathtubful—but only while simultaneously taking a shower.

I don’t need a steak knife to cut my meat. That’s why karate chops were created. I’m like a butter knife, only slightly less deadly. But I’m great with bagels—and disobedient old people.

If there’s a sexier sound on this planet than the person you’re in love with cooing over the crepes you made for him, I don’t know what it is.

Cooking is an art and patience a virtue… Careful shopping, freshingredients and an unhurried approach are nearly all you need. There is one more thing – love. Love for food and love for those you...

Let us not believe that an external fast from visible food alone can possibly be sufficient for perfection of heart and purity of body unless with it there has also been united a fast of...

The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight…[Breadmaking is] one of those almost hypnotic businesses, like a dance from some ancient...

All sorrows are less with bread.

Humor keeps us alive. Humor and food. Don’t forget food. You can go a week without laughing.

Tita knew through her own flesh how fire transforms the elements, how a lump of corn flour is changed into a tortilla, how a soul that hasn’t been warmed by the fire of love is...

Our culture tries to convince us on just about every front that more is better. More is a sign of wealth, luxury, power. Gone are the days when meals were moments of connection and conversation;...

Pork and chicken grease, the aromatics of choice for the Cajun.

Preparing the communal evening meal sometimes caused arguments. Every village in Sicily had a different recipe for squid and eels, disagreed on what herbs should be disbarred from the tomato sauce. And whether sausages should...

But imagine for a moment if we once again knew, strictly as a matter of course, these few unremarkable things: What it is we’re eating. Where it came from. How it found its way to...

always serve too much hot fudge sause on the hot fudge sundaes.It makes people overjoyed,and puts them in your debt

Bad business should be done without guilt if it is a source of income.

I do not particularly like the word ‘work.’ Human beings are the only animals who have to work, and I think that is the most ridiculous thing in the world. Other animals make their livings...

Dinner was wonderful. There was a joint of beef, with roast potatoes, golden-crisp on the outside and soft and white inside, buttered greens I did not recognize, although I think now that they might have...

Student food.” His eyes went to the tomato on the sill. “Whatever’s in the refrigerator over pasta.