Quotes on Food

The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure; neither the greatest captains nor the greatest philosophers have disdained the use or science of eating well.

How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?

The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man.

It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs.

What hunger is in relation to food, zest is in relation to life.

Most dear actors, eat no onions nor garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath.

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it's bad for you.

I love drinking now and then. It defecates the standing pool of thought. A man perpetually in the paroxysm and fears of inebriety is like a half-drowned stupid wretch condemned to labor unceasingly in water; but a now-and-then tribute to Bacchus is like the cold bath, bracing and invigorating.

There are no standards of taste in wine... Each man's own taste is the standard, and a majority vote cannot decide for him or in any slightest degree affect the supremacy of his own standard.

A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutrient from cows.

I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

Agricultural sustainability doesn't depend on agritechnology. To believe it does is to put the emphasis on the wrong bit of 'agriculture.' What sustainability depends on isn't agri- so much as culture.

Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art. It requires instinct and taste rather than exact measurements.

Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.

To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness, indeed.

Forcing people to eat together is an effective way to promote tolerance.

He who receives his friends and gives no personal attention to the meal which is being prepared for them, is not worthy of having friends.

When one has tasted watermelon he knows what the angels eat.

We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread.