Food Quotes, Proverbs & Sayings - Page 10



Cookery has become a noble art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.
Robert Burton

It’s bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children’s health than the pediatrician.
Meryl Streep

A nickel’s worth of goulash beats a five dollar can of vitamines.
Martin H. Fischer

All sorrows are less with bread.
Miguel de Cervantes

We provide food that customers love, day after day after day. People just want more of it.
Ray Kroc

Whole Foods is dedicated to helping people be healthier and live lives with more vitality and greater sense of well being.
John Mackey

The bagel, an unsweetened doughnut with rigor mortis.
Beatrice and Ira Freeman

My soul is dark with stormy riot,
Directly traceable to diet.
Samuel Hoffenstein

I’m a man
More dined against than dining.
Maurice Bowra

Do vegetarians eat animal crackers?
Anonymous

The woman just ahead of you at the supermarket checkout has all the delectable groceries you didn’t even know they carried.
Mignon McLaughlin

You can’t make a soufflé rise twice.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

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

If music be the food of love play on
William Shakespeare

Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
Henry IV

Chowder breathes reassurance. It steams consolation.
Clementine Paddleford

Recipe: A series of step-by-step instructions for preparing ingredients you forgot to buy, in utensils you don’t own, to make a dish the dog wouldn’t eat.
Anonymous

Dyspepsia is the remorse of a guilty stomach.
A. Kerr

The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.
George Bernard Shaw

Fang drops so much food on his ties we keep them in the refrigerator.
Phyllis Diller

The British hamburger thus symbolised, with savage neatness, the country’s failure to provide its ordinary people with food which did anything more for them than sustain life.
Clive James

Yes, cider and tinned salmon are the staple diet of the agricultural classes.
Evelyn Waugh

It’s difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn’t available.
Ronald Reagan

It’s difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.
Lewis Grizzard

No, I don’t take soup. You can’t build a meal on a lake.
Elsie de Wolfe

And I find chopsticks frankly distressing. Am I alone in thinking it odd that a people ingenious enough to invent paper, gunpowder, kites and any number of other useful objects, and who have a noble history extending back 3,000 years haven’t yet worked out that a pair of knitting needles is no way to capture food?
Bill Bryson

The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me and I to them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

But one day, one cold winter’s day,
He screamed out, ‘Take the soup away!’
Heinrich Hoffman

The vulgar boil, the learned roast an egg.
Alexander Pope

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