Food Quotes

“Now, good digestion wait on appetite, and health on both!”

“We shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing, by growing these parts separately under a suitable medium.”

“The superiority of chocolate (hot chocolate), both for health and nourishment, will soon give it the same preference over tea and coffee in America which it has in Spain.”

“Cut my pie into four pieces, I don’t think I could eat eight.”

“[My ideal of a good dinner] is to discuss good food, and, after this good food has been discussed, to discuss a good topic - with myself the chief conversationalist.”

“You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six.”

“Cut that pizza into six slices instead of eight, I ain't that hungry.”

“An onion can make people cry but there's never been a vegetable that can make people laugh.”

“For a quart of ale is a dish for a king.”

“There is nothing in the world that we do as much as we do eating”

“There is not a better day in the world to be spent than with a lot of wise old cowmen around barbecued beef, black coffee and good "free holy" beans.”

“I love horses and I only ask-don't let me know which one we are eating today.”

“Some guy invented Vitamin A out of a carrot. I'll bet he can't invent a good meal out of one.”

“Horses raise what the farmer eats and eats what the farmer raises. You can't plow the ground and get gasoline.”

“On a hot day in Virginia, I know nothing more comforting than a fine spiced pickle, brought up trout-like from the sparkling depths of the aromatic jar below the stairs of Aunt Sally's cellar.”

“When you have helped to raise the standard of cooking, you have helped to raise the only thing in the world that really matters. We only have one or two wars in a lifetime, but we have three meals a day -- there's nothing in the world that we do as much as we do eating.”

“For many people, food is a source of comfort, connection, and control.”

“I confess that my stomach does not take to this style of cooking. I cannot accept calves sweetbreads swimming in a salty sauce, nor can I eat mince consisting of turkey, hare, and rabbit, which they try to persuade me comes from a single animal... As for the cooks, I really cannot be expected to put up with this ham essence, nor the excessive quantity of morels and other mushrooms, pepper, and nutmeg with which they disguise perfectly good food.”

“A good cook is a certain slow poisoner, if you are not temperate.”

“I must have a drink of breakfast.”

“I didn't squawk about the steak, dear. I merely said I didn't see that old horse that used to be tethered outside here.”

“I personally stay away from natural foods. At my age I need all the preservatives I can get.”

“I didn't say the meat was tough. I said I didn't see the horse that is usually outside.”

“I don't believe in dining on an empty stomach.”

“I love making buckwheat crepes with ham, Parmesan cheese, and a fried egg on top. It's my go-to breakfast.”