Quotes of: Chinese-food Keyword

There was a moment of silence and then Sutherland breathed, “But, darling! Gossip is the food of the gods.

Andrew Holleran

To some education is just a bore; to most education is food for the brain and enrichment for the present and future.

Ana Monnar

Pornography is to sex what McDonalds is to food. A plasticized, generic version of the real thing.

Love

If sex were food, Rhage would have been morbidly obese. (Dark Lover)

J.R. Ward

It's key to know which essential foods will keep you going and help your body recover after hard work.

Marcus Samuelsson

How much evil throughout history could have been avoided had people exercised their moral acuity with convictional courage and said to the powers that be, 'No, I will not. This is wrong, and I don't care if you fire me, shoot me, pass me over for pro...

Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front

A farm includes the passion of the farmer's heart, the interest of the farm's customers, the biological activity in the soil, the pleasantness of the air about the farm -- it's everything touching, emanating from, and supplying that piece of landscap...

Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front

We are not encouraged, on a daily basis, to pay careful attention to the animals we eat. On the contrary, the meat, dairy, and egg industries all actively encourage us to give thought to our own immediate interest (taste, for example, or cheap food) ...

The Face on Your Plate: The Truth About Food

After 1656 the Dutch, who had gained control over the Moluccas, chose the islands that could be most easily defended. They then burned all the nutmeg trees on the other islands to make sure no one else could profit from the trees. Anyone caught tryin...

Flavor Foods: Spices & Herbs

The German officers said any soldier caught stealing food from our gardens would be shot. One poor soldier was caught stealing a potato. He was chased by his own people and climbed up a tree to hide. But they found him and shot him down out of the tr...

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

In the kitchen, her family nibbled Helen’s lemon squares. Melanie urged brownies on the nurses. “Take these,” she told Lorraine. “We can’t eat them all, but Helen won’t stop baking.” “Sweetheart,” Lorraine said, “everybody mourns ...

Apple Cake

I've an insatiable craving inside me that consumes everything and makes me regard the sufferings and joys of others only in their relationship to me, as food to sustain my spiritual powers. I am no longer capable of loosing my head in love, Ambition ...

A Hero of Our Time

In another telling anomaly of the meat-grinding business, many of the larger slaughterhouses will sell their product only to grinders who agree to not test their product for E. coli contamination--until after it's run through a grinder with a whole b...

Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook

Nutrition matters for everybody, but you can’t major in it at Harvard. Most top scientists go into other fields. Most of the big studies were done 30 or 40 years ago, and most are seriously flawed. The food pyramid that told us to eat low fat and e...

Peter Thiel

Rohit Patel: [In front of table with lots of food] What is all this? Rohit's Mother: This Mango, That is Khus, so no fuss Rohit Patel: Not the food!... All this singing and dancing Rohit's Mother: Oh! That! That's our Silver Anniversary Wedding Rehea...

Kal Ho Naa Ho

Adriana: Well, good luck with your book and your wedding Gil: Thanks, I think you would like Inez she has a, a very sharp sense of humour and attractive, I wouldn't say that we agree on everything Adriana: But the important things Gil: Yeah, or actua...

Midnight in Paris

I don't believe vegans (or vegetarians) who still get their (packaged, preservative/chemical-ridden) food from industrial food systems have any righteous ground to stand on, nor do I think a deep look at the sentient life of plants or the true enviro...

Brian Awehali

[T]here's a thin line separating the delicate from the bloodless, in art as in food.

Calcutta: Two Years in the City

I had officially joined the cacophony of sick mother fuckers.

Food and Loathing: A Life Measured Out in Calories

he seemed to be in quest for mental food, not heart sustenance.

The House of the Seven Gables

I am not a food critic. Or a chef. Or even a professional writer. What I am schooled in the art of, however, is enjoying myself.

Jewel Staite