he who feeds you, controls you

Anyone who thinks they’re too grown up or too sophisticated to eat caramel corn, is not invited to my house for dinner

So you, too, like fruitcake? (RW on meeting Lenin in Zurich during World War I.)

I’m sorry. I can’t serve him that item,” the waitress said, only somewhat surprising her since she had a pretty good idea why.”Why not?” she found herself asking anyway out of curiosity to see if...

Previous experience had taught me that any expedition marches on its stomach.

It’s the soul that’s starving, not the body

I wondered if full-blooded vampires had something like blue balls for their fangs if they didn’t get to feed when they were expecting to. Like some kind of pseudo-sexual gingivitis.

Once someone tries a real extra virgin — an adult or a child, anybody with taste buds — they’ll never go back to the fake kind. It’s distinctive, complex, the freshest thing you’ve ever eaten....

In another telling anomaly of the meat-grinding business, many of the larger slaughterhouses will sell their product only to grinders who agree to not test their product for E. coli contamination–until after it’s run through...

Her cuisine is limited but she has as good an idea of breakfast as a Scotchwoman.”[Sherlock Holmes, on Mrs. Hudson’s cooking.]

Food is really good here, selection is good.

Troy sat down next to Sherri, examining her tray. “Are you going to eat that?” he asked. “I know what went in there.” He smiled, looking mysterious. Troy’s mother worked in the cafeteria.Sherri immediately dropped...

When the watermelons were as large as a child’s head, the women boiled them, but they collapsed into a tasteless green mush that no one could eat, not the children, not the cow.

At last everything was satisfactorily arranged, and I could not help admiring the setting: these mingled touches betrayed on a small scale the inspiration of a poet, the research of a scientist, the good taste...

You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.

I love like I’m thirsty. Can I offer you a tall glass of Sahara sand?

What’s on the inside, beneath that sugar? Is it a bug? Is it a booger?

When it was cooler, Trazada made a simple meal of sausage, cheese, and bread. She had schooled herself to wait dinner until hunger urged her to eat; it gave seasoning to poor food that no...

I ate a rainbow in a bowl, because it’s better than eating rain soup. Food and water aren’t supposed to be one and the same.

A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.

Sometimes writing is easy. Other times it’s as hard as trying to eat a whole whale, after the whale has just eaten you.

If I only ate popsicles, I wonder if I’d rather freeze or starve to death. Freezing or starving, they’re like either option in a two-party political system.

People waste a lot of money on food and they’re not even eating healthily.

When a couple came to class together, it meant something else entirely – food as a solution, a diversion, or, occasionally, a playground.

When life gives you lemons, sell them and buy a pineapple. How to better your life 101.

I met a guy who had an interesting job. He was a meat cutter, or a meat slicer, something like that. I probably butchered his job title.

It’s not polite to talk with your mouth full of food.

He seemed to swallow the lie I fed him. I hope he’s not still hungry. If he is, I’ll give him the illusory dessert known as the American Dream.

The best part about a murder mystery dinner, of course, is the dinner. I make a killer Bubble and squeak, if you know what I mean. The mystery, of course, is what’s in the dinner.

I drive by McDonald’s, Burger King, and Wendy’s everyday before I get to Taco Bell. Then I keep driving to Chipotle.

To the potluck I brought something I randomly found in my fridge. It was the source of the stink.

Sitting on the porch alone, listening to them fixing supper, he felt again the indignation he had felt before, the sense of loss and the aloneness, the utter defenselessness that was each man’s lot, sealed...

It’s not an ideal solution, but it will work if everybody follows the basic criteria of food is in classrooms only on days when rooms are scheduled for cleaning.

Few of us are aware that the act of eating can be a powerful statement of commitment to our own well-being, and at the same time the creation of a healthier habitat. Your health, happiness,...

It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others. So it happens...

You thought you knew what food was, you thought it was elemental. You forgot how much restaurant there was in restaurant food and how much home was in homemade.

If … they allow to see him and bring him (food) only six times a year, then there is no sense to live there, … But if our life there will somehow make things easier...

There are some things in life that shouldn’t be given so much importance, if they don’t change what is essential.

Whether we are feasting or fasting or somewhere in between, food should have a sacred role in our lives. It can be something we sacrifice, something we savor, something we share, and through it all...

People eat more when they’re given more food, and they don’t even realize it.

Amen,’ I exclaim, accidentally spitting out a Raisinet. I pick up the chocolate with a Kleenex and stuff it in my purse. Ten bucks says a month from now I’ll have forgotten about it and...

The true socialist utopia turns out to be a field of F-1 hybrid plants.

I would advocate that chocolate be covered by health insurance, but that is admittedly a very French public policy perspective.

I don’t know what it is about food your mother makes for you, especially when it’s something that anyone can make – pancakes, meat loaf, tuna salad – but it carries a certain taste of...

Eating more consciously now feels like a way of being. I actually think about how my food got to my plate.

There is also a tradition about Socrates. He liked walking, it is recorded, until a late hour of the evening, and when someone asked him why he did this he said he was trying to...

Bought marmalade? Oh dear, I call that very feeble.

And when all of the flourless chocolate cakes & chocolate mousse or ganache cakes have come and gone, there will still be nothing like a fudgy brownie, dry & crackled on top, moist & dense...

The Paradox of Sustenance: For an organism’s life to be continued; another organism’s life has to be discontinued.

I like bread, and I like butter – but I like bread with butter best.