[T]he salient question is whether the increasing awareness of [heart] disease beginning in the 1920s coincided with the budding of an epidemic or simply better technology for diagnosis.

I couldn’t use the public restrooms because they weren’t working. The food tasted awful. Everything was disgusting.

Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps full the dinner pail is valuable.

I don’t eat Sloppy Joes. I eat Tidy Josephs.

Forget food for thought. Give me food for my belly.

My password is meatlover. My profile picture is a pizza. My love for you is real, like an invisible and inaudible mime parade.

I love microwave dinners. I also like eating other appliances, like fridges and dishwashers.

If you ever find yourself in a blender with a banana and an orange, just start throwing karate chops.

Although he never speaks of how or what or why, I know that his childhood was difficult, that his parents broke his heart. Books and excess poundage are his insulation against pain.

What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?

We instinctively feel an overwhelming desire to take sides: organic or conventional, fair or free trade, “pure” or genetically engineered food, wild or farm-raised fish. Like most things in life, though, the sensible answer lies...

It’s just the way things are. Take a moment to consider this statement. Really think about it. We send one species to the butcher and give our love and kindness to another apparently for no...

(We loved Mother too, completely, but we were finding out, as Father was too, that it is good for parents and for children to be alone now and then with one another…the man alone or...

One of my biggest fears is that I’m going to die alone in my home, and my cats will eat me because I am too dead to open their food cans.

Proof there is a God,” I answered.

Perhaps a past of bingeing, restricting, or purging comes back to haunt you from time to time. Maybe you have to fight hard battles against vanity, gluttony, and shame. But with God’s saving power, every...

Beans are a warm cloak against economic cold.

But the goal of the arts, culinary or otherwise, is not to increase our comfort. That is the goal of an easy chair.

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

For is there any practice less selfish, any labor less alienated, any time less wasted, than preparing something delicious and nourishing for people you love?

How many of us lobby for green energy or protected lands, but don’t engage with the local bounty to lay by for tomorrow’s unseasonal reality? That we tend to not even think about this as...

Chilli dawgs always bark at night.

Almost anything is edible with a dab of French mustard on it.

I strongly believe that a very good way to start on the Warrior Diet is by following the diet elements first. This alone will probably do the job. Moreover, it may stimulate even sedentary people...

They all know the truth, that there are only three subjects worth talking about. At least here in these parts,” he says, “The weather, which, as they’re farmers, affects everything else. Dying and birthing, of...

12% of employees eat because they are hungry. 88% of employees eat because it is 1 o’clock.

My mother use to say she would rather be dead than not eat the foods she liked. At eighty-six she met with death but she enjoyed every breath

Hearts can’t be broken because they’re made of marzipan.

…it was so rich and exotic I was seduced into taking one bite and then another as I tried to chase the flavors back to their source.

You know, the act of feeding someone is the ultimate act of care and affection…sharing yourself with someone else through food.” He held another mouthful of cake under her nose. “Think about it. We are...

After a while I got hungry and went to the kitchen. There was nothing to eat. I drank another beer and looked again, and found half a loaf of whole wheat bread behind the beer...

Malnutrition can be as common in poverty as in wealth, one for the lack of food, the other for the lack of knowledge of food.

If hot food is they key to maintaining an expedition’s stamina, then low grade gut-rot alcohol is the key to sustaining its sense of pleasure.

Eating is an agricultural act.

A good motto in life, he’d reckoned, was: don’t eat anything that glows.

Garlic is divine. Few food items can taste so many distinct ways, handled correctly. Misuse of garlic is a crime. Old garlic, burnt garlic, garlic cut too long ago and garlic that has been tragically...

By the 1920s if you wanted to work behind a lunch counter you needed to know that ‘Noah’s boy’ was a slice of ham (since Ham was one of Noah’s sons) and that ‘burn one’...

It is good to dress in fair clothes to dine with friends. It honors your host, if you are a guest; and your guest if you are a host. And both adorn the feast, and...

Počkej. To mi chceš naznačit, že došly ředkvičky?

Water is the most important thing — there’s always food in the house.

Life is too short to eat food that doesn’t taste good.

It was a delicious meal — skim milk, wheat middlings, leftover pancakes, half a doughnut, the rind of a summer squash, two pieces of stale toast, a third of a gingersnap, a fish tail, one...

We combine our three packs of pasta for dinner – pesto. We tip the dried stuff into a pan, add water and simmer. We try it, looking at each other with disbelief as it hits...

These are delicious! What are they?””Double chocolate chip with peanut butter filling.””They’re the second best thing I’ve ever tasted.”I laughed. “You said the same thing at dinner.””I recently readjusted the ranking.

When he’s hot, he’s hot; when he’s not, he’s not. But at least there is always food

I went to a potluck. I brought my own pot—and luck. The pot was empty, just like my promise to bring food the next time.

A good meal soothes the soul as it regenerates the body.From the abundance of it flows a benign benevolence.

As much as I would love to know what you know, I’d much rather eat your brain with a spoon.

Some breakfast food manufacturer hit upon the simple notion of emptying out the leavings of carthorse nose bags, adding a few other things like unconsumed portions of chicken layer’s mash, and the sweepings of racing...

Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; and good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts.