Quotes about Food

“South Korea's economy is still difficult. I will create a country where nobody worries about putting food on the table.”

“There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.”

“Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.”

“My quest these days is to find my long lost inner child, but I'm afraid if I do, I'll end up with food in my hair and way too in love with the cats.”

“It's around the table and in the preparation of food that we learn about ourselves and about the world.”

“Sandwiches are wonderful. You don't need a spoon or a plate!”

“I love oatmeal. To me, it's not boring. I agree that ordinary oatmeal is very boring, but not the steel-cut Irish kind - the kind that pops in your mouth when you bite into it in little glorious bursts like a sort of gummy champagne.”

“Essentially what's going to determine how you succeed in New York is how people feel about the space, how delicious the food is, how they perceive the value and, most important of all, how they feel treated. My understanding is Stephen Starr is exceptionally good at all of this and his ability to create a transporting experience.”

“True economy consists in always making the income exceed the out-go. Wear the old clothes a little longer if necessary; dispense with the new pair of gloves; mend the old dress: live on plainer food if need be; so that, under all circumstances, unless some unforeseen accident occurs, there will be a margin in favor of the income.”

“Chinese food tries to engage the mind, not just the palate. To provoke the intellect.”

“The Punjabi food has its own taste. It's not just about one food item but the Punjabi food is itself world-renowned.”

“When fast food is not a treat but a dietary staple, the children surf the internet all day in dark corners of the room and are bombarded with latest gadgets. Things replace parental standards.”

“My delight in things is definitely Caribbean. It has to do with landscape and food. The fact that my language may have a metrical direction is because that's the shape of the language. I didn't make that shape.”

“Sweet peas should smell. Half the point of growing sweet peas is to cut them for the house; they should fill a room with an almost painful olfactory inarticulateness. But most sweet peas smell of nothing. This does not stop them being beautiful, but they are like food with no flavour.”

“In the 21st century our tastes buds, our brain chemistry, our biochemistry, our hormones and our kitchens have been hijacked by the food industry.”

“When we get in late and the only thing open is fast food, it can be tough to maintain a healthy diet.”

“I've had this terrible stomach problem for years, and that has made touring difficult. People would see me sitting in the corner by myself looking sick and gloomy. The reason is that I was trying to fight against the stomach pain, trying to hold my food down. People looked me and assumed I was some kind of addict.”

“I was eating bad stuff. Lots of sugar and carbs, junk food all the time. It makes you very irritated.”

“To me, food is as much about the moment, the occasion, the location and the company as it is about the taste.”

“Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before.”

“Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.”