Nutrition and food quotes
I don't think America will have really made
it until we have our own salad dressing. Until then we're stuck behind
the French, Italians, Russians and Caesarians. ~Pat McNelis
I eat merely to put food out of my mind.
~N.F. Simpson
We plan, we toil, we suffer - in the hope
of what? A camel-load of idol's eyes? The title deeds of Radio
City? The empire of Asia? A trip to the moon? No, no,
no, no. Simply to wake just in time to smell coffee and bacon and
eggs. ~J.B. Priestly
Avoid fruit and nuts. You are what you
eat. ~Jim Davis
Vegetables are a must on a diet.
I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie. ~Jim Davis
To the old saying that man built the house
but woman made of it a "home" might be added the modern supplement that
woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation.
~Emily Post
I'm trying to eat better. And, I do
feel wise after drinking tea. After eating vegetables, I just feel
hungry. ~Carrie Latet
Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds
if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon. ~Doug Larson
As the days grow short, some faces grow long.
But not mine. Every autumn, when the wind turns cold and darkness
comes early, I am suddenly happy. It's time to start making soup
again. ~Leslie Newman
Did you ever stop to taste a carrot?
Not just eat it, but taste it? You can't taste the beauty and energy
of the earth in a Twinkie. ~Astrid Alauda
Nobody seems more obsessed by diet than our
anti-materialistic, otherworldly, New Age spiritual types. But if
the material world is merely illusion, an honest guru should be as content
with Budweiser and bratwurst as with raw carrot juice, tofu and seaweed
slime. ~Edward Abbey
Welcome to the Church of the Holy Cabbage.
Lettuce pray. ~Author Unknown
High-tech tomatoes. Mysterious milk.
Supersquash. Are we supposed to eat this stuff? Or is it going
to eat us? ~Annita Manning
One of the very nicest things about life is
the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our
attention to eating. ~Luciano Pavarotti and William Wright, Pavarotti,
My Own Story
I'm not sure what makes pepperoni so good
- if it's the pepper or the oni. ~Ulrik Stephens
If God had intended us to follow recipes, He wouldn't have given us grandmothers. ~Linda Henley
I would like to find a stew that will give
me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o'clock in the morning.
~John Barrymore
Shipping is a terrible thing to do to vegetables.
They probably get jet-lagged, just like people. ~Elizabeth Berry
There is one thing more exasperating than
a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will.
~Robert Frost
Custard: A detestable substance produced
by a malevolent conspiracy of the hen, the cow, and the cook. ~Ambrose
Bierce
To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness, indeed. ~La Rochefoucauld
A fruit is a vegetable with looks and money.
Plus, if you let fruit rot, it turns into wine, something Brussels sprouts
never do. ~P.J. O'Rourke