a man who was, as we say in the restaurant business, one taco short of a combo platter.

How did we get to the point where we’re paying for bottled water? I imagine it was some weird marketing meeting over in France.

How we prepare our food, how we consume our food really makes a difference in how our food satisfies us and shapes the role we give food in our lives. Is it something we stuff...

And let your board stand an altar on which the pure and the innocent of forest and plain are sacrificed for that which is purer and still more innocent in man.

[Government] regulation is an imperfect substitute for the accountability, and trust, built into a market in which food producers meet the gaze of eaters and vice versa.

Most of what presents itself to us in the marketplace as a product is in truth a web of relationships, between people, yes, but also between ourselves and all the other species on which we...

Farms and food production should be, I submit, at least as important as who pierced their navel in Hollywood this week. Please tell me I’m not the only one who believes this. Please. As a...

Raw ingredients trump recipes every time; farmers and ranchers who coax the best from the earth can make any of us appear to be a great cook.

How bad do you want cancer? Bad enough to eat a rainbow of it? Personally, I think the red cancer would be the worst, but anything you swallow with artificial hues in it is going...

I believe that nature is wise, and that we all have deep instincts within us that can provide the wisdom to know when to eat, what to eat, and when to stop eating. Everyone has...

Big food companies make hot dogs with mechanically separated meat (msm) that, as described matter-of-factly by the [USDA], is “a paste-like and batter-like meat product produced by forcing bones with attached edible meat under high...

You bite the hand that feeds, Speedy said.Humans don’t like that.They view it as a sign of ingratitude.I never asked anyone to feed me.That doesn’t seem to matter to them.

The word indulgent has become a popular catchphrase for dishes we should not eat for health’s sake. I never use it to describe food, only poor parenting.

[S]ometimes, when you are a food person, the possible irrelevance of what you are doing doesn’t cross your mind until it’s too late. (Once, for example, when I was just starting out in the food...

Sir, you’re not telling me that you just learned that the folks at the convention centre didn’t have food and water until today, are you? You had no idea that they were completely cut off?

Hot crumpets with butter and jam – what could be more ambrosial?

What if there were health food stores on every corner in the hood, instead of liquor stores!?

Would you pour sand into the gas tank of your car? Of course not, your car was meant to run on good gasoline. Well, your body works the same way. Your body was meant to...

Great food with real local flavor is just a short cab ride away.

In any case, muffins that are only imaginary aren’t liable to get stuck.

I lurched away from the table after a few hours feeling like Elvis in Vegas – fat, drugged, and completely out of it.

Your people eat dry and tasteless flesh but it is off plates as smooth as ivory and as round as the sun.

In the rather informal survey I have taken over the years on intensity of interest in food by profession, lawyers rank only a few trades below concert pianists….

Food is symbolic of love when words are inadequate.

Our holiday food splurge was a small crate of tangerines, which we found ridiculously thrilling after an eight-month abstinence from citrus…. Lily hugged each one to her chest before undressing it as gently as a...

You Are What You EatTake food for example. We all assume that our craving or disgust is due to something about the food itself – as opposed to being an often arbitrary response preprogrammed by...

She had witnessed in nauseating detail how the human world worked: its rituals of comfort (television, food, religion); its appetite for poison (television, food, religion); and for the monstrous edifices of desire (television, food, religion):...

Love is a banana. First you peel it, and then you roll on the condom.

Most folks don’t have but a few days to a week’s worth of food in their houses at any given time. When they run out, they’ll have to forage. Only the fools will forage in...

There is no technique, there is just the way to do it.Now, are we going to measure or are we going to cook?

Come back! We know you can eat just a little bit more.

When I’m feeling down, I make myself a big bowl of Up Soup. The bowl only looks empty, but in reality it’s full of hope. Grab a spoon, there’s plenty for both of us.

Early on I set out to write the next Great American Novel, and then later on I set out the silverware and enjoyed my dinner in silence.

In our heart we know that life loves life. Yet we feast on some of the other life-forms with which we share our planet; we kill to live. Taste is what carries us across that...

The word God can mean whatever you believe it to mean, for me it is the conscious stream of life from which we all come, and to which we can stayconnected throughout our lives as...

To let her imagine how great a lover I’d be, I ate soup with chopsticks. She went home with another man, but I’ll bet she fantasized about me.

“Gladys, bring me some more damn soup.” Well, maybe he wasn’t talking to me, but it was still good to hear he was a romantic.

Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts

Cereal face,” and I took it while eating Cocoa Puffs.

I can throw an orange like a baseball, but I can’t eat a baseball like an orange. Let that be a life lesson for you.

I make love like you might make an omelet. At least, I’m hoping you might make an omelet, because I skipped breakfast like a child skips home from the class he just skipped.

The only way to eat Cheerios is without cheer. Could a product name be more of an oxymoron?

They should make bubblegum that tastes like mashed potatoes. You know, for lovers.

Have you tried the cinnamon things?” Poppet asks. “They’re rather new. What are they called, Widge?””Fantastically delicious cinnamon things?

As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as...

… han hadde av Theodor sin fineste hermetik å diske op med og dertil kold fugl og marmelader og æg på tre måter og kjæks og multer. Og han hadde øl og rødvin til drikke...

There are people in the free world helping them stay hidden and get food and shelter and also in traveling, so we think the reward money, with the television program last night, will entice them...

Anything is good if it’s made of chocolate.

The only bad kimchi is no kimchi.

Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.