There should be a soup spoon on the end of fire truck ladders, because fires do nothing if they don’t warm up leftovers.

The Italians say ciao. The Chinese say Chow. And the Americans chow while they say stuff.

Friendship is like putting butter on your socks before you slide them on. Sure, we all do it occasionally, but most of us would rather eat breakfast bare-handed at least once in a while.

The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one.

Because of the potential hazard of food-borne illness from consumption of meat products contaminated with pathogens such as the E. coli bacteria, I urge consumers who have purchased the suspect product not to eat it...

Nu var det bare to ting vi kunde få fat på i sjåen, det var flatbrød og sild. Og ikke engang dette kunde vi ta noget videre av uten at det ble savnet; men vi...

Some of the amphitheaters have big ticket fees and high services fees and big parking prices and high food and beverage prices, … You can go to a minor-league ballpark where a beer is $3...

El mexicano es, quizá, el único pueblo del mundo al que le gusta comer con dolor. Sí: dolor, porque, aun cuando nuestro gusto adquirido hace que, benévolamente, lo llamemos acrimonia, sazón o picorcito, lo que...

Do you see a theme emerging? Women like flowers; men like food!

It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.

Even if you can’t be totally mindful at every meal, if you can say a blessing, silently if necessary, or offer up a prayer for someone, something beyond yourself and your food, the prayer helps...

sit yourself down and stop fussing. You’re reminding me of my Aunt Glynna with all this temperature takin’ and foil tuckin’. This food is fine.

What do you most wish for, Izzy?” “Herbs and salads, and fish straight from the river. A man needs no more than such pleasures.

So this is what commodity corn can do to a cow: industrialize the miracle of nature that is a ruminant, taking this sunlight- and prairie grass-powered organism and turning it into the last thing we...

A little chocolate a day keeps the doctor at bay

We could undoubtedly survive on these rations a lot longer than we’d care to live.” (NASA went ahead and tested an all-milkshake meal plan on groups of college students living in a simulated space capsule...

There was something sort of bleak about her tone, rather as if she had swallowed an east wind. This I took to be due to the fact that she probably hadn’t breakfasted. It’s only after...

Just like becoming an expert in wine–you learn by drinking it, the best you can afford–you learn about great food by finding the best there is, whether simply or luxurious. The you savor it, analyze...

Don’t wreck a sublime chocolate experience by feeling guilty.Chocolate isn’t like premarital sex. It will not make you pregnant.And it always feels good.

We have to remember that not every action taken to solve a problem will be free of unforeseen consequences. No matter how good our intentions.

Our thoughts, feelings and whereabouts: Food we dish up on plates called photographs and status updates; to feed Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.; beasts with insatiable appetites.

I’m going on a diet. (Crud, I know)I am going to be cranky. I am going to be irritable.I am going to be moody and sad and mean. And, yes, I am going to be hungry. Please don’t...

It’s the granddaddy of health claims. To even get in the game with certain food categories like dairy products you have to have a low-fat offering.

My yogurt was nestled into a bag, waiting to turn into aushak, and all around us were sausages and pastry, lollipops and spices, chicken and cheese. Any world that contained all this, I thought surveying...

When I’m not longer rapping, I want to open up an ice cream parlor and call myself Scoop Dogg. Snoop Dogg.

There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.

Anybody who believes that the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach flunked geography.

Relationships, like all human experiences, are transient; they change every day and are meant to be enjoyed in the present. When I hear people say you need to “work” at a relationship, what that often...

You don’t have to be a genius to know when the storm hits, you’re going to need water, food, diesel, gasoline, evacuation needs, helicopters, boats, medicine. So why does someone call me up when I...

Japanese food has been going up like a rocket, while Chinese, which was overwhelmingly the most prominent Asian cuisine in the States in 1990, has stalled in the past 15 years.

It’s a harmless breakfast.” “Nothing harmless about what he whips up. His parents are chefs, so he’s picked up a few tips and anything he makes is beyond yummy.” “Uhm, you’re not doing a good...

America, it has been observed, is not really a melting pot. It is actually a huge potluck dinner, in which platters of roasted chicken beckon beside casseroles of pasta, mounds of tortillas, stew pots of...

Eat beautiful foods, which are nutritionally dense, wholesome and natural.

I need a stunt mouth.

Upscale people are fixated with food simply because they are now able to eat so much of it without getting fat, and the reason they don’t get fat is that they maintain a profligate level...

Would it really be so bad if you slowed your life down even a teensy bit? If you took charge of the ingredients of your food instead of letting corporations stuff you and your family,...

Eating be eating, b’ain’t it, Birdie?”Nay, Uncle Bear: In Caermelor, at the Royal Court, they be so-oh, so much more advanced than anywhere else. ‘Tis not done to wipe your fingers on your hair or...

Food, the stoking-up process, the keeping alive of an individual flame, the process that begins before birth and is continued after it by the mother, and finally taken over by the individual himself, who goes...

rabbit food.

All I have besides food is grief.

Why did I ever wake up!” he cried.

The bad news is the butcher’s dead. The good news is there’ll be no need for a funeral, and I’ve got enough meat to last for weeks.

Simultaneously the whole party moved toward the water, super-ready from the long, forced inaction, passing from the heat to the cool with the gourmandise of a tingling curry eaten with chilled white wine.

The good news is my neighbor survived the fire. The bad news is I like my food cooked a little more thoroughly.

I suppose there are people who can pass up free guacamole, but they’re either allergic to avocado or too joyless to live.

In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but feed us.

It had been agreed between them that lighted candles at wayside inns, in strange countries amid mountain scenery, gave the evening meal a peculiar poetry.

So, Slade, the swearing, the poor english and everything else is just a facade. You’re really quite a deep and intelligent man, aren’t you?

I wouldn’t want the guests at my birthday party confusing my celebration with the Oscars. That’s why I’m having the awards ceremony after we eat cake and I open my presents.

The best part about vomiting is that right after you do, you can continue eating.