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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