Sandwiches,’ she said, ‘like diamonds, are forever.

Integrating the beauty of seasonal change into the residence was a concept that remains true even today even in the more cramped, inner city machiya.

My guess is that the Jonathan would be as out of place in England or Kazakhstan, the native ground of its ancestors, as I would be in Russia, the native ground of my own. The...

That many if not most people…who want fresh leafy greens in January buy them at the supermarket after they’ve been bleached and plastic-bag shipped from California or beyond is not a tribute to modern technology;...

It was beautiful here, and the people were so nice. Even the food was more like home, with the rice and the sushi.

Life itself is the proper binge.

I’m a big believer in cooking your own meals. It makes it much easier not only to ensure that you eat fresh foods but also to follow the second rule of eating (see previous chapter),...

The [Five Second Rule] has many variations, including The Three Second Rule, The Seven Second Rule, and the extremely handy and versatile The However Long It Takes Me to Pick Up This Food Rule.

Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It’s made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!

What smells good may not always taste good, I leaned this the day I tried to eat a scented candle.

I understand the big food companies are developing a tearless onion. I think they can do it — after all, they’ve already given us tasteless bread.

Too much food results in dullness of mind.

In terms of food, so far we have only used liquid smoke as a preservative for fish and tofu. But I’m sure it can also be applied to other foods including noodles.

I’m not sure why it is, but I love food more than just about anything else.

The F word turns me on, she whispered. The F word?FoodHe threw back his head and laughed. It rumbled up out of his chest and felt so good it startled him. For the first time...

To the chefs who pioneered the nouvelle cuisine in France, the ancienne cuisine they were rebelling against looked timeless, primordial, old as the hills. But the cookbook record proves that the haute cuisine codified early...

In the newspapers the row about the prospect of genetically modified food raged on, and yet here were consumers effectively demanding lambs with four back legs.

Fussing over food was important. It gave a shape to the day: breakfast, lunch, dinner; beginning, middle, end.

The elevator shaft was a kind of heat sink. Hot food was cold by the time it arrived. Cold food got colder. No one knew what would happen to ice cream, but it would probably...

Food is everything we are. It’s an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It’s inseparable from those from the get-go.

It has long been my motto that if you cannot get your act together… then the very least you can do is try to make your act entertaining.

Teaching kids how to feed themselves and how to live in a community responsibly is the center of an education.

If I can’t suck your milkshake through a straw, it’s not a milkshake–it’s a glass of ice cream.

The food chain is a mess. A lot of their customers are in flux.

Original, in French: La bonne cuisine est la base du véritable bonheur. English: Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness.

Those dripping crumpets, I can see them now. Tiny crisp wedges of toast, and piping-hot, flaky scones. Sandwiches of unknown nature, mysteriously flavoured and quite delectable, and that very special gingerbread. Angel cake, that melted...

Can you taste it Bruce? Can you taste the filth, the dirt, the oily blackness of that fossil fuel in our mouth as you choke and gag and spit it out? Do you still hear...

We may live without poetry, music, and art;We may live without conscience, and live without heart;We may live without friends; we may live without books;But civilized man cannot live without cooks.He may live without books,—what...

A woman eats to feed her pussy.” Meaning: Anything we do to excess is in compensation for not getting a minimum amount of sexual gratification.

Dinner was a riot, but the food was bland, so I doused it with pepper spray. The chef wanted to protest, but he didn’t, because I had the pepper spray.

Birthday Soup is good to eat, but not as good as Birthday Cake.

The trouble with eating Italian is that 5 or 6 days later, you’re hungry again.

Food is more than just food. It’s a means to an end, a means to getting people together.

There is absolutely no substitute for the best. Good food cannot be made of inferior ingredients masked with high flavor. It is true thrift to use the best ingredients available and to waste nothing.

Incidentally, although the Cistercians did much to improve the quality of sheep, the animal remained much smaller than its modern descendants; as late as the early eighteenth century a sheep wasn’t much bulkier than a...

An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.

And what the hell does that even mean? Why would you serve food for thoughgs, and what kind of food? If you serve spinach, do you get healthy thoughts? If it’s ice cream and candy,...

I eat fog soup (out of a can). You don’t think I make it fresh, do you? You don’t need a spoon or straw to enjoy it—you need a pipe to inhale it.

If zombies eat brains, then they’d love me, because who doesn’t like a buffet?

I think the most heavenly food is fluffy white clouds.

My love is like leftovers, and her image is the original meal. I should have eaten it all in one sitting.

I’m clingy like clang on pots. My love is cookable.

You are what you eat. What would YOU like to be?

My gosh, I love food. If I wasn’t an actor, I could be a completely different body shape right now.

…folk drak brus med sprit i og åt smørogbrød med røkelaks og svinerul og bringebærsyltetøi på, og de hadde jo hørt så megt om disse lækkerier at de lo så tårerne trillet mens de åt...

Whereas once medieval Europe had adhered to a common Catholic religion, a common Latin language, and common well-spiced cuisine (at least, for the elite), the balkanization of the Christian world along national lines now meant...

I had one elegantly folded cookie—a short paper nerve baked in an ear.

I’d rather eat nothing than eat a carrot.

…Food serves two parallel purposes: it nourishes and it helps you remember. Eating and storytelling are inseparable—the saltwater is also tears; the honey not only tastes sweet, but makes us think of sweetness; the matzo...

It’s a fun food, it’s easy. The popularity has gone coast to coast, border to border, driven by restaurants and retail. The ingredients, the ease of procuring them, the number of restaurants and food-service operations...