Life itself is the proper binge.
You know the great irony is that people think you have to have money to enjoy fine food, which is a shame.
Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you're a consultant.
If you look at what's happened to the stock market, if you look at what's happened to housing values, if you look at what's happened to bank loan portfolios because the value of their other assets that they've already issued loans against were going down, there was a pretty good argument for trying to pass something at about this level of investment with the divisions as they were - unemployment, food stamps, and tax cuts, aid to education and healthcare, and job creation.
As the colonel and I sat swapping stories in the plane, a jet aircraft buzzed past our window. I asked the colonel what type of aircraft it was, and he said, "Don't worry about it, Bob. . . if you can see it, it's obsolete. "
Americans, more than any other culture on earth, are cookbook cooks; we learn to make our meals not from any oral tradition, but from a text. The just-wed cook brings to the new household no carefully copied collection of the family's cherished recipes, but a spanking new edition of 'Fannie Farmer' or 'The Joy of Cooking'.
You don't have to live in the country and grow your own food to be green.
In spite of food fads, fitness programs, and health concerns, we must never lose sight of a beautifully conceived meal.
You know, the act of feeding someone is the ultimate act of care and affection. . . sharing yourself with someone else through food. He held another mouthful of cake under her nose. Think about it. We are fed in the Eucharist, by our mothers when we are infants, by our parents as children, by friends at dinner parties, by a lover when we feast on one another's bodies. . . and on occasion, on another's souls.
We're the biggest food and agriculture company in the world.
Miss Child is never bashful with butter.
We need a president who understands the contributions and values of rural America, a president who understands the men and women who are up at 5 a. m. every day to grow the food that we put on our tables.
Grief is, of all the passions, the one that is the most ingenious and indefatigable in finding food for its own subsistence.
You can be miserable before you have a cookie and you can be miserable after you eat a cookie but you can't be miserable while you are eating a cookie.
From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought.
If you don't love life you can't enjoy an oyster; there is a shock of freshness to it and intimations of the ages of man, some piercing intuition of the sea and all its weeds and breezes. [They] shiver you for a split second.
I spent a college semester in a small town in Italy - and that is where I truly tasted food for the first time.
Food additives are far safer in actual use than the basic natural food themselves.
I think every culture is passionate about food; some are just passionate about food and the food is shitty.
I look at art all the time. I go to the museums and galleries every week. That really is like food for me.
