Food Quotes - Page 3

Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps full the dinner pail is valuable.

Hard work should be rewarded by good food.

As long as you're in the food business, why not make sweets?

Work is a vehicle with which man chases some fleeting destination called a full tummy.

Happy we were the, for we had a good house, and good food and good work.

12% of employees eat because they are hungry. 88% of employees eat because it is 1 o’clock.

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

I am not a glutton - I am an explorer of food

You're thinking I'm one of those wise-ass California vegetarians who is going to tell you that eating a few strips of bacon is bad for your health. I'm not. I say its a free country and you should be able to kill yourself at any rate you choose, as long as your cold dead body is not blocking my driveway.

The first time you see something that you have never seen before, you almost always know right away if you should eat it or run away from it.

Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.

Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious.

Life itself is the proper binge.

The preparation of good food is merely another expression of art, one of the joys of civilized living…

If you seek for supreme predator, go find God.
He hunts the prime killer of mankind, the Satan.

A Paradox, the doughnut hole. Empty space, once, but now they've learned to market even that. A minus quantity; nothing, rendered edible. I wondered if they might be used-metaphorically, of course-to demonstrate the existence of God. Does naming a sphere of nothingness transmute it into being?

But the goal of the arts, culinary or otherwise, is not to increase our comfort. That is the goal of an easy chair.

I mean really, how could an artistic individual stay grounded in the nitty-gritty of how many minutes per pound meat has to stay in the oven when trying to fathom the creative philosophy behind the greatest artistic minds of the world?

Putting food under lock and key was one of the great innovations of your culture. No other culture in history has ever put food under lock and key - and putting it there is the cornerstone of your economy.[...] Because if the food wasn't under lock and key, Julie, who would work?

No plaque reminds the passer-by of these glories, although there should be one; for those who invent biscuits bring great pleasure to many.