quotations about food
C'mon children, we got soul food in the house
We got cornbread, mash potato, a-candied yam
We got a little chitlin', it's soul
ALBERT COLLINS
"Soul Food"
Food is "everyday"--it has to be, or we would not survive for long. But food is never just something to eat. It is something to find or hunt or cultivate first of all; for most of human history we have spent a much longer portion of our lives worrying about food, and plotting, working, and fighting to obtain it, than we have in any other pursuit. As soon as we can count on a food supply (and so take food for granted), and not a moment sooner, we start to civilize ourselves.
MARGARET VISSER
Much Depends on Dinner
Food ... is the topmost taper on the golden candelabrum of existence.
DONALD BARTHELME
"Conversations with Goethe"
Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.
M.F.K. FISHER
An Alphabet for Gourmets
Food = joy ... guilt ... anger ... pain ... nurturing ... friendship ... hatred ... the way you look and feel.... Food = everything you can imagine.
SUSAN POWTER
Food
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
MAHATMA GANDHI
The Spirituality of Bread
I am not a glutton -- I am an explorer of food.
ERMA BOMBECK
attributed, Funny Ladies: The Best Humor from America's Funniest Women
Some people who are obsessed with food become gourmet chefs. Others become eating disorders.
MARYA HORNBACHER
Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Poor Richard's Almanack
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN
The Hobbit
Unlike curing cancer or heart disease, we already know how to beat hunger: food.
MARIO BATALI
"Chefs Make Change: Mario Batali", Food & Wine, March 31, 2015
If there is food I eat it, in case there is none on the morrow.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
A Clash of Kings
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
VIRGINIA WOOLF
A Room of One's Own
There is no love sincerer than the love of food.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
Man and Superman
When I go to a fine dining restaurant, I'm excited and I do expect to find proposals to wake my senses.
FERRAN ADRIA
The Vancouver Sun, Mar. 4, 2014
If you are eating well and your condition is pure and clean, life itself becomes like the dreams or visions that you have when sleeping.
MICHIO KUSHI
Spiritual Journey
To use an analogy, food is like petrol in a car. The car cannot run without petrol; the body cannot function without food. Likewise, if the wrong sort of petrol is put into the car, the performance will be affected.
MELISSA ARMSTRONG
The Diabetes Cookbook for the Whole Family
For it is only in company that eating is done justice; food must be divided and distributed if it is to be well received.
WALTER BENJAMIN
Reflections
You are what you eat.
VICTOR LINDLAHR
Bridgeport Telegraph, 1923
Humor keeps us alive. Humor and food. Don't forget food. You can go a week without laughing.
JOSS WHEDON
attributed, The Biteback Dictionary of Humorous Literary Quotations