Food
Quotes
"Food first, then morality."
(Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956), German dramatist, poet)
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"Tell me what you eat and I'll tell you who you are."
(Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755-1826), French jurist, gastronome)
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"Hunger makes you restless. You dream about food - not just any food, but perfect food, the best food, magical meals, famous and awe-inspiring, the one piece of meat, the exact taste of buttery corn, tomatoes so ripe they split and sweeten the air, beans so crisp they snap between the teeth, gravy like mother's milk singing to your bloodstream."
(Dorothy Allison (b. 1953), U.S. novelist and poet)
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"Bread may not always nourish us; but it always does us good, it even takes stiffness out of our joints, and makes us supple and buoyant, when we knew not what ailed us, to recognize any generosity in man or Nature, to share any unmixed and heroic joy."
(Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist)
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"We may eat dinner together, but everyone puts the food in his own mouth."
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist)
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"Civilization means food and literature all round. Beefsteaks and fiction magazines for all. First-class proteins for the body, fourth-class love-stories for the spirit."
(Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), British novelist)
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"Roast Beef, Medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy. Seated at Life's Dining Table, with the menu of Morals before you, your eye wanders a bit over the entrees, the hors d'oeuvres, and the things a la though you know that Roast Beef, Medium, is safe and sane, and sure."
(Edna Ferber (1887-1968), U.S. author)
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"A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine & becoming viands."
(George Gordon Noel Byron (1788-1824), British poet)
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"Talleyrand said that two things are essential in life: to give good dinners and to keep on fair terms with women. As the years pass and fires cool, it can become unimportant to stay always on fair terms either with women or one's fellows, but a wide and sensitive appreciation of fine flavours can still abide with us, to warm our hearts."
(M.F.K. Fisher (1908-1992), U.S. author and food expert. Talleyrand (1754-1838) was a French statesman and memoirist)
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"Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures ..."
(M.F.K. Fisher (1908-1992), U.S. culinary writer)
Jokes about dinner
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A wife (looking at the window): "It looks like rain."
Her husband (eating soup): "Yes, and it tastes so."
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"Waiter, there is a fly in my soup."
"All right. I'll bring you a fork."
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Home from a trek through darkest Africa with his wife, an explorer confided that the most unforgettable day of the expedition was the one when they were captured by cannibals. Their chief, luckily, proved to be something of an epicure. "I never eat a person who has passed the age of forty," he said.
"That was the moment," recalled the explorer, "that I heard my wife give her correct age for the first time in public."
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