Food Quotes

How good it is, when you have roast meat or suchlike foods before you, to impress on your mind that ...

A Paradox, the doughnut hole. Empty space, once, but now they've learned to market even that. A minu...

As Charles Darwin said,'The economy shown by Nature in her resources is striking,'' says the Spirit....

I always thought eating was a ridiculous activity anyway. I'd get out of it myself if I could, thoug...

That’s what you get for being food.

Good food, fresh water, and an occasional sweet and someone to care for. That's what everyone should...

The longing for sweets is really a yearning for love or "sweetness.

It has now been many months, at the present writing, since I have had a nourishing meal, but I shall...

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a...

A mighty porterhouse steak an inch and a half thick, hot and sputtering from the griddle; dusted wit...

New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.

I know the look of an apple that is roasting and sizzling on the hearth on a winter's evening, and I...

Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

Mornings before daylight I slipped into cornfields and borrowed a watermelon, or a mushmelon, or a p...

There are some who are still weak in faith, who ought to be instructed, and who would gladly believe...

I do not particularly like the word 'work.' Human beings are the only animals who have to work, and ...

At first people ate simply because they were alive and because food was tasty. Modern people have co...

Before researchers become researchers they should become philosophers. They should consider what the...

Food and medicine are not two different things: they are the front and back of one body. Chemically ...

Until there is a reversal of the sense of values which cares more for size and appearance than for q...

If 22 bushels (1,300 pounds) of rice and 22 bushels of winter grain are harvested from a quarter acr...

In any case I just cannot imagine attaching so much importance to any food or treat that I would gro...

Wil ate without enthusiasm. His bacon tasted like nothing. Like a dead animal, fried. His eggs, abor...

Zombies let us explore notions of the apocalypse - no water, food, medical care, the government impl...

foodstuffs absolved of the obligation to provide vitamins and minerals cavorted with reckless abando...

We know there is a deep reservoir of food wisdom out there, or else humans would not have survived t...

Simply by starting to cook again, you declare your independence from the culture of fast food. As so...

It's brutal out there. A bear will eat a lactating ewe alive, starting with her udders. as a rule, a...

Before I started writing about food, my focus was really on the human relationship to plants. Not on...

High-quality food is better for your health.

Those of us who care about food and where it comes from will miss both Obama and Michelle. Even thou...

We moderns are great compartmentalizers, perhaps never more so than when hungry.

One problem with the division of labor in our complex economy is how it obscures the lines of connec...

For is there any practice less selfish, any labor less alienated, any time less wasted, than prepari...

Cooking is all about connection, I've learned, between us and other species, other times, other cult...

Most of what presents itself to us in the marketplace as a product is in truth a web of relationship...

Great cooking is all about the three 'p's: patience, presence, and practice.

The kernels of wheat entered the aperture virtually in single file, as if passing between a thumb an...

The quest for an ever-whiter shade of bread, which goes all the way back to the Greeks and Romans, i...

In ancient Greece, the word for "cook," "butcher," and "priest" was the same -- mageiros -- and the ...

Cooking gave us not just the meal but also the occasion: the practice of eating together at an appoi...

Populations eating a remarkably wide range of traditional diets generally don't suffer from these ch...

Leave something on your plate... 'Better to go to waste than to waist

As grandmothers used to say, 'Better to pay the grocer than the doctor

The sheer novelty and glamor of the Western diet, with its seventeen thousand new food products ever...

That anyone should need to write a book advising people to "eat food" could be taken as a measure of...

That eating should be foremost about bodily health is a relatively new and, I think, destructive ide...

He showed the words “chocolate cake” to a group of Americans and recorded their word associations. “...

Don't eat anything your great grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. "When you pick up that box of ...

Is it just a coincidence that as the portion of our income spent on food has declined, spending on h...

While it is true that many people simply can't afford to pay more for food, either in money or time ...

[Government] regulation is an imperfect substitute for the accountability, and trust, built into a m...

Avoid food products containing ingredients that are A) unfamiliar B) unpronounceable C) more than fi...

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

You are what what you eat eats.

The shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of fueling the body to a ritual of family ...

Farmers facing lower prices have only one option if they want to be able to maintain their standard ...

My guess is that the Jonathan would be as out of place in England or Kazakhstan, the native ground o...

Originally, the atoms of carbon from which we’re made were floating in the air, part of a carbon dio...

A growing body of research suggests that many of the health problems associated with eating beef are...

Yet the organic label itself—like every other such label in the supermarket—is really just an imperf...

So much about life in a global economy feels as though it has passed beyond the individual's control...

. . . .how and what we eat determines to a great extent the use we make of the world--and what is to...

As long as one egg looks pretty much like another, all the chickens like chicken, and beef beef, the...

But carbon 13 [the carbon from corn] doesn't lie, and researchers who have compared the isotopes in ...

The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zer...

It's all very Italian (and decidedly un-American): to insist that doing the right thing is the most ...

Curiously, the one bodily fluid of other people that doesn't disgust us is the one produced by the h...

Eating is an agricultural act,' as Wendell Berry famously said. It is also an ecological act, and a ...

So this is what commodity corn can do to a cow: industrialize the miracle of nature that is a rumina...

Americans today spend less on food, as a percentage of disposable income (10%), than any other indus...

we ask for too much salvation by legislation. All we need to do is empower individuals with the righ...

Even connoisseurship can have politics, Slow Food wagers, since an eater in closer touch with his se...

Reversing the historical trajectory of human eating, for this meal the forest would be feeding us ag...

What gets a steer from 80 to 1100 pounds in fourteen months is tremendous quantities of corn, protei...

A mere four giant meatpacking companies (Tyson subsidiary IBP, Cargill subsidiary Excel, Swift & Com...

By far the biggest portion of a bushel of American commodity corn (about 60% of it, or some 50k kern...

There are some forty-five thousand items in the average American supermarket and more than a quarter...

Though they won't say, it has been estimated that Cargill and ADM together probably buy somewhere ne...

When chickens get to live like chickens, they'll taste like chickens, too.

[Smil] estimates that two of every five humans on Earth today would not be alive if not for Fritz Ha...

By 1900, European scientists recognized that unless a way was found to augment this naturally occurr...

Planted, a single corn seed yielded more than 150 fat kernels, often as many as 300, while the retur...

[David] Wallerstein discovered that people would spring for more popcorn and soda- a lot more- as lo...

Researchers have found that people (and animals) presented with large portions will eat up to 30 per...

Since 1985 our [American's] consumption of all added sugars- cane, beet, HFCS, glucose, honey, maple...

Every day between now and his slaughter in six months, 534 [Pollan's steer] will convert 32 pounds o...

It was the same industrial logic- protein is protein- that made feeding rendered cow parts back to c...

Wet milling (to produce starch) is an energy-intensive way to make food; for every calorie of proces...

This for many people is what is most offensive about hunting—to some, disgusting: that it encourages...

But imagine for a moment if we once again knew, strictly as a matter of course, these few unremarkab...

Half the dogs in America will receive Christmas presents this year, yet few of us ever pause to cons...

The true socialist utopia turns out to be a field of F-1 hybrid plants.

Me and the folks who buy my food are like the Indians -- we just want to opt out. That's all the Ind...

The ratio of feed to flesh in chicken, the most efficient animal by this measure, is two pounds of c...

Suffering... is not just lots of pain but pain amplified by distinctly human emotions such as regret...

Imagine if we had a food system that actually produced wholesome food. Imagine if it produced that f...

Try as we might, each of us can eat only about 1500 pounds of food a year. What this means for the f...

Very simply, we subsidize high-fructose corn syrup in this country, but not carrots. While the surge...

Today it [high fructose corn syrup] is the most valuable food product refined from corn, accounting ...