Food quotes, verses and sayings

Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cream makes it Russian; lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese; garlic makes it good.

It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.

At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them.

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.

We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are.

Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.

Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you, and be silent.

Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.

Man is what he eats.

I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.

Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.

Food is the most primitive form of comfort.

If hunger makes you irritable, better eat and be pleasant.

I like rice. Rice is great if you're hungry and want 2000 of something.

Talking of Pleasure, this moment I was writing with one hand, and with the other holding to my Mouth a Nectarine -- how good how fine. It went down all pulpy, slushy, oozy, all its delicious embonpoint melted down my throat like a large, beautified Strawberry.

Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, 'I'd like some fries.' The girl at the counter said, 'Would you like some fries with that?'

What is food to one, is to others bitter poison.

I no longer prepare food or drink with more than one ingredient.

Good food ends with good talk.

Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is.

Never eat more than you can lift.

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.

I once read cooking is something you do for your family. But when you�re alone you sometimes have to treat yourself like family. And now that my apartment�s redolent with the smell of food it feels more like a home than a box where I hang my hat.

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.

The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.

He who comes first, eats first. [Familiar as: First come first served.]