What sounds good?” That’s where we get into trouble focusing on what we want rather than what we need. Then we invent new ways to satisfy ourselves.

If one could order a crime as one does a dinner, what would you choose? . . . Let’s review the menu. Robbery? Frogery? No, I think not. Rather too vegetarian. It must be murder—red-blooded...

Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight buzz of inspiration when reading or writing. The only worthwhile miracle in the...

All the way from major national restaurants and food retailers to hospitals and hotels, we now see organizations all over America involved,

There is no such thing as junk food, but there are junk diets.

Suatu pagi nanti, saya dan kamu akan berbagi telur dadar. Dengan dada berdebar, dan cinta yang berpendar.

Eating connects us to our histories as much as it connects our souls to our bodies, our bodies to the earth.

At the potluck, I brought two dishes: knowledge and mashed potatoes and gravy. Guess which one got cleaned out and which one hardly got touched.

I like food that speaks to me. Food like French toast, English muffins, and Deviled eggs. Oh, oval embryonic spawn of chicken, why hast thou deceived me?

You live among this ridiculous wealth and you get lost. You worry about nonsense like spirituality and inner health and satisfaction and relationships.You have no idea what it is like to starve, to watch yourself...

The foods that are nearby are best for human beings, and things that he has to struggle to obtain turn out to be the least beneficial of all.

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,...

Perhaps this war will make it simpler for us to go back to some of the old ways we knew before we came over to this land and made the Big Money. Perhaps, even, we...

Food, like a loving touch or a glimpse of divine power,has that ability to comfort.

I’d eat a picnic in Hades with him.

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

Octopuses are tough–and not just in the sense that they can take out sharks (both real and computer generated, as in Mega Shark versus Giant Octopus). They’re almost pure muscle. With tridirectional muscles in the...

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.