A smiling face is half the meal.
Start a new movement -- eat prunes.
Food has replaced sex in my life, now I can't even get into my own pants.
Those who indulge tend to bulge. "Alan !"
Anyone who eats three meals a day should understand why cookbooks outsell sex books three to one.- L. M. Boyd
All human history attests
That happiness for man,--the hungry sinner!--
Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner.
Lord Byron. 1788-1824. The Island. Canto xiii Stanza 99.
...Dean Mohamet, a Muslim landowner from Patna who had followed his British patron to Ireland. There he soon eloped with, and later marries, Jean Daly, from a leading Anglo-Irish family.... In 1807 Dean Mohamet moved to London where he opened the country's first Indian owned curry restaurant, Dean Mohamet's Hindoostanee Coffee House :...He finally decamped to Brighton where he opened what can only be described as Britain's first oriental massage parlour and became "Shampooing Surgeon to Kings George IV and William IV. "-William Dalrymple, White Mughals, p. xlii
In the vicinities of Quito the inhabitants have with to the maize an other plant that serves to support in great part their existence: the potatoes, that they are of the roots similar to the tubercoli, supplies of one rind more or little hard; when they come bubbled they become to hold like the cooked chestnuts; seccate to the sun call to them chuno and they are conserved for the use. - Pedro de Cieza de Leon 1540
Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.--Ralph Waldo Emerson
A cheese may disappoint. It may be dull, it may be naive, it may be oversophisticated. Yet it remains cheese, milk's leap toward immortality. - Clifton Fadiman, Any Number Can Play (1957)
Potatoes of the Virginia. The potato of the Virginia has many coppers flexible cables and that crawl for earth... The root is thick, large and tuberosa; not much various one for shape, color and sapore from common potatoes (the sweet potatoes) but a smaller Pò; some are round as spheres, other ovals; the some longer other shortest ones... It grows spontaneously in America where, as Clusius has reported, it has been discovered; from then I have received these roots from the Virginia otherwise Norembega calls; they grow and they prosper in my garden like in their country of origin... Its correct name is cited in the title it. Poichè it possesses not only the shape and the proportions of potatoes, but also their gradevole sapore and virtue we can call them potatoes of the America or Virginia." Herbal, John Gerard 1597
The smell of that buttered toast simply talked to Toad, and with no uncertain voice; talked of warm kitchens, of breakfasts on bright frosty mornings, of cozy parlor firesides on winter evenings, when one's ramble was over and slippered feet were propped on the fender, of the purring of contented cats, and the twitter of sleepy canaries. ~ Kenneth Grahame 1859-1932, The Wind in the Willows (1908)
Let food be your medicine. -- Hippocrates
O Creator! Thou who givest life to all things and hast made men that they may live, and multiply. Multiply also the fruits of the earth, the potatoes and other food that thou hast made, that men may not suffer from hunger and misery. - Inca prayer, perhaps 2000 years old.
Some people have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind my belly very studiously, and very carefully; for I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else. Samuel Johnson (Boswell: Life of Johnson)
A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner. Samuel Johnson
Let me smile with the wise and feed with the rich. Dr. Johnson
It is not very easy to fix the principles upon which mankind have agreed to eat some animals, and reject others; and as the principle is not evident, it is not uniform. That which is selected as delicate in one country, is by its neighbours abhorred as loathsome.
Samuel Johnson: Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland
Comfort food doesn't take us back to the womb, but to the period shortly thereafter, when we were safely cradled and gently fed. Fragrant stews, thick soups and bubbling gratins make us feel safe, warm and well protected from the raging elements...and so forget the stresses of a sometimes cruel world. ~Sue Kreitzman, Comfort Food
When we lose, I eat. When we win, I eat. I also eat when we're rained out. -- Tommy Lasorda
Ask your child what he wants for dinner only when he is buying. Fran Lebowitz
Inhabitants of underdeveloped nations and victims of natural disasters are the only people who have ever been happy to see soy beans. Fran Lebowitz
There are three possible parts to a date of which two must be offered: entertainment, food and affection. It is customary to begin a series of dates with a great deal of entertainment, a moderate amount of food and the merest suggestion of affection. As the amount of affection increases, the entertaiment can be reduced proportionately. When the affection has replaced the entertainment, we no longer call it dating. Under no circumstances can the food be omitted.--- Judith Martin, _Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior_ (New York, Appleton, 1982), p. 288.
Kissing don't last: cookery do. -George Meredith
One must eat to live, and not live to eat.--Moliere [Jean Baptiste Poquelin] (1622-1673)_L'Avare_, Act III, Scene 1
A man should think less of what he eats and more with whom he eats because no food is so satisfying as good company.-Montaigne
Pooh and Piglet walked home thoughtfully together in the golden evening, and for a long time they were silent. "When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last, "what's the first thing you say to yourself?" "What's for breakfast?" said Pooh. "What do you say, Piglet?" "I say, I wonder what's going to happen exciting today?" said Piglet. Pooh nodded thoughtfully. "It's the same thing," he said. A A Milne
I can neither eat nor sleep for thinking of You, my dearest love. I never touch even pudding. -- Horatio Nelson to Lady Emma Hamilton, 1800
I was . . . overwhelmed by the amazing stink of kimchi, the garlic and hot-pepper sauerkraut that's breakfast, lunch and dinner in Korea. Its odor rises from this nation of 40 million in a miasma of eyeglass-fogging kimchi breath, throat-searing kimchi burps and terrible, pants-splitting kimchi farts. . . .The Koreans are . . perfectly capable of a three- hour lunch, and so are Giannini and I. We ordered dozens of bowls of pickles, garlics, red peppers and hot sauces and dozens of plates of spiced fish and vegetables and great big bottles of OB beer and mixed it all with kimchi so strong it would have sent a Mexican screaming from the room with tongue in flames. By the time we drove, weaving, back to Seoul, you could have used our breath to clean your oven.--P.J. O'Rourke (1947- )_Holidays in Hell_ [1988], "Seoul Brothers"
Tis sunstantial happiness to eat - WS, As You Like It.
There is no sincerer love than the love of food. George Bernard Shaw
There are *two* Italies...The one is the most sublime and lovely contemplation that can be conceived by the imagination of man ; the other is the most degraded, disgusting, and odious. What do you think? Young women of rank actually eat - you will never guess what - *garlick*
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Letter, Naples, 22 Dec 1818
Seeing is deceiving. It's eating that's believing.-- James Thurber, _Further Fables for Our Time_
Principles have no real force except when one is well fed. Mark Twain
Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
VOLTAIRE [Francois Marie Arouet] (1792-1832) {Dialogues Philosophiques}
I saw him even now going the way of all flesh, that is to say towards the kitchen. - John Webster
My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people. Orson Welles
My wife is a light eater ... as soon as it's light, she starts to eat.... Henny Youngman
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