Det blev litt festmat efter kirketid en søndag, og gjesterne de var bare Karolus og hans kone Ane Maria, foruten naturligvis Ezra og Hosea og August, det blev intet gilde, bare en liten velkomst med...

It is easy to think of potatoes, and fortunately for men who have not much money it is easy to think of them with a certain safety. Potatoes are one of the last things to...

Taste is the most unexplored sense

Each year, food companies use an amount of salt that is every bit as staggering as it sounds: 5 billion pounds.

Although not all flesh is forbidden, everything that is forbidden is flesh.

yelling while eating was like swallowing anger. It’s simply not good for us. It leaves us unhappy and unsatisfied, as if the meal didn’t count or wasn’t good, and an hour later we’re back looking...

Maybe most important, farm food itself is totally different from what most people now think of as food: none of those colorful boxed and bagged products, precut, parboiled, ready to eat, and engineered to appeal...

It is worth remembering that at some point in the very distant past, no human had ever drank milk from a cow.

It’s all very Italian (and decidedly un-American): to insist that doing the right thing is the most pleasurable thing, and that the act of consumption might be an act of addition rather than subtraction.

There was real plasure to be had eating ice cream out of container and pickles out of a glass jar, standing up at the counter. I wondered whether the cravings associated with pregnancy were really...

You can’t just eat good food. You’ve got to talk about it too. And you’ve got to talk about it to somebody who understands that kind of food.

Things sit on the counter too long. If it’s hot food, keep it hot. If it’s cold, keep it cold.

Food shouldn’t be half-bad. It should be all good.

If loneliness or sadness or happiness could be expressed through food, loneliness would be basil. It’s not good for your stomach, dims your eyes, and turns your mind murky. If you pound basil and place...

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.

Never judge the deeds of a starving man while you’re on a full tummy.

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...

Pecans are not cheap, my hons. In fact, in the South, the street value of shelled pecans just before holiday baking season is roughly that of crack cocaine. Do not confuse the two. It is...

Unfortunately the aid has been suspended because North Korea has said they are not going to distribute food anymore.

On Sundays Mom invariably ran out of money, which is when she cracked eggs into the skillet over cubes of fried black sourdough bread. It was, I think, the most delicious and eloquent expression of...

I have never seen a food writer mention this, but all shrimp imported into the United States must first be washed in chlorine bleach to kill bugs. What this does for the taste, I do...

All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.

My love is pizza shaped. Won’t you have a slice? It’s circular, so there’s enough to go around.

Wananchi wanapokosa huduma za muhimu za kijamii (kama vile afya, elimu, chakula, malazi, na ulinzi) ilhali wanalipa kodi, na wameajiri serikali kuwaendeshea nchi kwa kiapo cha uaminifu wa vitabu vitakatifu, watakosa imani na serikali yao!...

Peanut butter is the pate of childhood.

I want for people not to worry so much. Life ain’t going to be perfect, but tings will work out. People come to visit and I always tell them not to worry. If you got...

Two become one when two are in love—or when the waitress asks about our dinner bill. I’ll pay next time, I promise.

The reason is that you eat too many foods that are high in “calories,” which are little units that measure how good a particular food tastes. Fudge, for example, has a great many calories, whereas...

What’s the point of having a book club if you don’t get to eat brownies and drink wine?

Did you know you can drink food? It’s true! It’s called soup, and I eat it with a fork. I’m as efficient as the government.

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.