Is food a substitute for love? No, love is a substitute for food. And a pretty poor substitute at that.

Confronted with the problems that characterize our herding culture, we are perhaps like the metaphorical man wounded by an arrow that the Buddha discussed with his students. He said that the man would be foolish...

The gift of food to the hungry is the noblest of all gifts.

We are not creators; only combiners of the created. Invention isn’t about new ingredients, but new recipes. And innovations taste the best.

The French have the right respect for dogs–in France we chiens get to go to lunch and dinner anytime, anywhere.

It is a sinful abomination for one part of the world’s Christians to grow richer year by year while our brothers and sisters ache and suffer for lack of minimal health care, minimal education, and...

Food producers are responsible for controlling every link in the production chain and making sure that only healthy food products arrive on the market.

The pleasure of eating should be an extensive pleasure, not that of the mere gourmet. People who know the garden in which their vegetables have grown and know that the garden is healthy will remember...

The minute you land in New Orleans, something wet and dark leaps on you and starts humping you like a swamp dog in heat, and the only way to get that aspect of New Orleans...

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.

Don’t let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.

To experience biophilia is to love a diversity that, as limitless as it is fragile, both haunts us and fills us with hope.

I’m pretty sure that eating chocolate keeps wrinkles away because I have never seen a 10 year old with a Hershey bar and crows feet.

I have come to the conclusion that just as the Japanese live to work, Asians live to eat.

The tantrums of cloth-headed celluloid idols are deemed fit for grown-up conversation, while silence settles over such a truly important matter as food.

Tiramisu for desert.

The preparation of good food is merely another expression of art, one of the joys of civilized living…

Three things are needed for a good life, good friends, good food, and good song.

Everyone was always hungry. The poorer you were, the hungrier you were, and with the hunger came weakness and irritability. It became difficult to think clearly and you needed to think clearly to work out...

A writer must be a lifelong reader to be good. And if you want to be a great writer, I’d suggest trying to live a long life by reading the ingredients of the foods you...

I mop my floor with a wet cloud. My love tissues are full of eye rain. Dinner will be served at breakfast.

Without another word, we began to eat. I was hungry, but no appetite would excuse the way we set upon those dishes. We shoveled food into our mouths in a manner ill befitting our fine...

When you eat with awareness, you find that there is more space, more beauty. You begin to watch yourself, to see yourself, and you notice how clumsy you are or how accurate you are…When you...

I had a dream about you. Dinner for two turned into dinner for three when you told me you were pregnant. I was excited, but a little nervous, because we were at a fancy restaurant...

A radio in a song in an ice cream cone. Two licks for free, and the third is for sale. My favorite flavor tastes like a commercial, because it’s made with 100% natural advertisement.

If you are able to introduce a white person to a new cheese, it’s like introducing them to a future spouse.

My favourite food is cake.What kind of cake?It doesn’t matter. All cake.

Candy is full of taste. But so is shit, because taste is full of smell.

Yes, ma’am, I will take seconds. Your dinner tastes like excrement. I scream, you scream, we all scream for excrement.

Your food’s not getting cold. I’m keeping it warm in my stomach. Dinner’s on me tonight.

I’ll use your chicken burrito as a crayon. I’ll draw what love looks like, if you promise not to eat it.

Instead of complimentary breakfasts, why not complimentary compliments? Telling someone they’re looking skinny is sure to help them lose weight faster and feel better than, you know, actually eating.

We pass Tinsley’s Fried Chicken with the big sign that reads, TRY OUR BIG, JUICY BREASTS.

Almonds. Apricots. Avocadoes. Some peaches I don’t know. Grapefruit. Lemones. Probably oranges.

Invest in what’s real. Clean as you go. Drink while you cook. Make it fun. It doesn’t have to be complicated. It will be what it will be.

Goose neck is a delicacy. You have to at least try it. In fancy restaurants people pay up to fifty dollars a plate for this stuff.’ And at our house we were force-fed it for...

There is communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.

Was he hungry? He’d had an enormous breakfast, but the transition from the glimpse had taken a lot out of him. Did they serve lunch in Hell? Should he have packed a snack? Why was...

If you think of someone’s good qualities as the umeboshi in an onigiri it’s as if their qualities are stuck to their back! Maybe the reason people get jealous of each other is because they...

I resent when I go out to dinner and they try to sell me the healthy food for the same price as the good food.

Parsley is gharsley.

Sashimi is velvet dust, verging on silk, or a bit of both, and the extraordinary alchemy of its gossamer essence allows it to preserve a milky density unknown even by clouds…. my cheeks recalled the...

The shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of fueling the body to a ritual of family and community, from the mere animal biology to an act of culture.

French paradox,” for how could a people who eat such demonstrably toxic substances as foie gras and triple crème cheese actually be slimmer and healthier than we are? Yet I wonder if it doesn’t make...

The average person is still under the aberrant delusion that food should be somebody else’s responsibility until I’m ready to eat it.

[Her] idea of a fair trade–her lentils for your caviar.

Well let’s face it, who on earth besides antique dealers and gay couples actually still give dinner parties?

Dr. Pottenger theorized that there are similarities between malformationsfound in animals and those found in humans. My points here are that:1. I firmly believe there is indeed a direct connection between diet, health,sexual performance, and...

With enough coffee anything is possible

This food is imported almost entirely as canned or prepared food products. While there will be a cost to retailers who will be asked to withdraw the products from shelves and discard them, no retailer...