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... having bowed to the inevitability of the dictum that we must eat to live, we should ignore it... More
... most bereaved souls crave nourishment more tangible than prayers: they want a steak. What is... More
...it is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but it is what comes out of the... More
...there is death in the pot! More
A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti... More
A cheese may disappoint. It may be dull, it may be naive, it may be oversophisticated. Yet it... More
A little meat best fits a little belly,
As sweetly Lady, give me leave to tell ye,
This... More
A man is fed, not that he may be fed, but that he may work. More
A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner. More
A plague o’ these pickle herring! More
A surfeit of the sweetest things
The deepest loathing to the stomach brings. More
A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the... More
After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations. More
After we had breakfasted by ourselves, one of our bed-fellows, who had also breakfasted, came... More
All things, crisp, crunchy, malted, tangy, sugared and shredded. More
An epicure dining at Cree
Found a rather large mouse in his stew.
Said the waiter,... More
And like that game with which the Japanese amuse themselves by dipping in a porcelain bowl of... More
And, indeed, is there not something holy about a great kitchen?... The scoured gleam of row upon... More
Anger’s my meat; I sup upon myself,
And so shall starve with feeding. More
Appetite comes with eating. More
Are you eating it? Or is it eating you? More
As a comforter, philosophy cannot compete with a good dinner. More
As I came home through the woods with my string of fish, trailing my pole, it being now quite... More
At its best, [Japanese cooking] is inextricably meshed with aesthetics, with religion, with... More
At Joe’s Eats
You get your fish or chicken on meat platters.
With coleslaw, macaroni,... More
Bill: I have champagne, caviar, marinated truffles, brilliant foie gras and half-a-dozen assorted... More
Billy: You dropped some shell in there.
Ted: It’s all right. Makes it crunchier that way.... More
Blackberries
Big as the ball of my thumb, and dumb as eyes
Ebon in the hedges,... More
Bring us in no browne bred, for that is made of brane,
Nor bring us in no white bred, for... More
But compared with the task of selecting a piece of French pastry held by an impatient waiter a... More
But his neat cookery! He cut our roots in characters,
And sauced our broths, as Juno had been... More
But the cat is grown small and thin with desire,
Transformed to a creeping lust for milk. More
Captain Quinlan: When this case is over, I’ll come around some night and sample some of your... More
Celery, raw,
Develops the jaw, More
Civilization means food and literature all round. Beefsteaks and fiction magazines for all.... More
Clearly, some time ago makers and consumers of American junk food passed jointly through some... More
Come, thou shalt go home, and we’ll have flesh for holidays, fish for fasting-days, and... More
Cows wandered through the streets.... Vegetables grew chiefly in cans, and stream-beds and... More
Departed Goose! I neither know nor care.
But this I know, that we pronounced thee... More
Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth enters the stomach, and goes out into the sewer? More
Don’t make jokes about food. More
Early on, we equate being a good parent with how we feed our children. You’re a “good... More
Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and... More
Edible. Good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a... More
Epicurean cooks
Sharpen with cloyless sauce his appetite. More
Every country we conquer feeds us. And these are just a few of the good things we’ll have when... More
Feed him with apricots and dewberries,
With purple grapes, green figs, and mulberries. More
Feed him ye must, whose food fills you.
And that this pleasure is like raine,
Not sent ye... More
Food first, then morality. More
Food has it over sex for variety. Hedonistically, gustatory possibilities are much broader than... More
Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible... More
Food=joy ... guilt ... anger ... pain ... nurturing ... friendship ... hatred ... the way you... More
For a Benizon to fall
On our meat, and on us all. More
For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us... More
For my desert, I helped myself to a large slice of the Chesuncook woods, and took a hearty... More
For ordinary people, food is heaven. More
For people may not know what they think
about politics in the Balkans,
or the vexed... More
Gluttony and Lust are the only sins that abuse something that is essential to our survival. More
Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us. More
Go get the butter. More
Good Master Mustardseed, I know your patience well. That same cowardly, giant-like ox-beef hath... More
Hail, hail, plump paunch, O the founder of taste
For fresh meats, or powdered, or pickle, or... More
Have caviar if you like, but it tastes like herring to me. More
He scream’d out—‘Take the soup away!
O take the nasty soup away!
I won’t have any... More
He who cannot eat horsemeat need not do so. Let him eat pork. But he who cannot eat pork, let him... More
He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else. More
He who eats alone chokes alone. More
he will lick
The fishbone bare. And can take stolen hold

On a bitch otter in a field... More
He will to his Egyptian dish again. More
Health foods make promises that only the Second Coming could fulfill. More
Here’s a wing [laughs]. What do you like, the leg or the wing, Henry, or do you still go for... More
Heywood Floyd: What’s that, chicken?
Michaels: Something like that. Tastes the same, anyway. More
Honesty coupled to beauty is to have honey a sauce to sugar. More
Hors d’oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one’s childhood that... More
How’d you like some ice cream, Doc? More
Hunger is the best spice. More
Hunger makes you restless. You dream about food—not just any food, but perfect food, the best... More
I am not suggesting that there should be no morality and no self-restraint in regard to sex, any... More
I believe that one of the most dignified ways we are capable of, to assert and then reassert our... More
I can imagine living without food. I cannot imagine living without books. More
I come to one bush of berries so ripe it is a bush of flies,
Hanging their bluegreen bellies... More
I eat my peas with honey, More
I feed on good soup, not beautiful language. More
I found you as a morsel, cold upon
Dead Caesar’s trencher. More
I have found it to be the most serious objection to coarse labors long continued, that they... More
I live on toasted lizards,
Prickly pears, and parrot gizzards,
And I’m really very fond... More
I love no roast but a nut-brown toast, and a crab laid in the fire;
A little bread shall do... More
I never felt that getting angry would do you any good other than hurt your own digestion—keep... More
I never liked bananas much anyway. Two-thirds of the way down even one banana I am willing to... More
I remember the stink of the liverwurst.
How I was put on a platter and laid
between the... More
I think it was your cherry pies. More
I will make an end of my dinner; there’s pippins and cheese to come. More
If you’re going to America, bring your own food. More
In a strange city, I connect through food and fantasy. More
In America we eat, collectively, with a glum urge for food to fill us. We are ignorant of... More
In marble halls as white as milk,
Lined with a skin as soft as silk,
Within a fountain... More
In my grandmother’s house there was always chicken soup
And talk of the old country—mud... More
In the county there are thirty-seven churches
and no butcher shop. This could be taken
as... More
In the Lord’s Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his... More
It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones... More

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