Quotes of: Good-food Keyword

Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter-faction, the vegans, are a persistent irritant to any chef worth a damn. To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living. Veget...

Anthony Bourdain

When I stepped into the brown-tiled entryway of the Kentwood Public Library, the sunlight flowing down on me from the high windows, I felt a sense of importance. It gratified me to be in a place devoted to books and quiet; I was filled with a sense o...

Stealing Buddha's Dinner

Everyday, you get home from the shops with a bag of cat food and bin-liners and realise that, yet again, you failed to have cosmetic surgery, book a cheap weekend in Paris, change your name to something more glamorous, but the fifth series of The Sop...

Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door

So often, even when we stop to say a blessing before a meal, we’re mentally preparing to spoon some pasta or potatoes onto our plates. We’re not usually focused on the present moment, simply placing ourselves before our food and entering into the...

Cravings: A Catholic Wrestles with Food, Self-Image, and God

The sheer novelty and glamor of the Western diet, with its seventeen thousand new food products every year and the marketing power - thirty-two billion dollars a year - used to sell us those products, has overwhelmed the force of tradition and left u...

In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

Each food items in a typical U.S. meal has traveled an average of 1,500 miles....If every U.S. citizen ate just one meal a week (any meal) composed of locally and organically raised meats and produce we would reduce our country's oil consumption by o...

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

We needed a refrigerator for our new place and I've never bought a refrigerator my whole life. I went into the appliance store, there's like 900 of 'em lined up, there's a salesman there. What's this guy supposed to say about refrigerators? "Well you...

Brian Regan

Seita: She's been having diarrhea for a while now, and prickly heat and rashes all over. And salt water seems to be hurting her skin. Doctor: [writing] Weakening from malnutrition. Due to the diarrhea. Next patient. Seita: Can you give her medicine o...

Grave of the Fireflies

Gusteau: [as Remy is about to steal a piece of bread] What are you doing? Remy: [groans] I'm hungry! I don't know where I am and I don't know when I'll find food again... Gusteau: Remy, you are better than that. You are a cook! A cook makes! A thief ...

Ratatouille

During the worst stages of my eating disorder, I was all-or-none with food—either bingeing or not eating. Much of my experience was, in fact, that if I ate anything, I would eat everything. I began to understand that this happened because I was sta...

Goodbye Ed, Hello Me: Recover from Your Eating Disorder and Fall in Love with Life

It is in fact an orderly community. The green plants are food for the plant eaters, which are food for the predators, and some of those predators are food for still other predators. And what's left over is food for the scavengers, who return to the e...

Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit

No matter how high a bird can fly, it still has to look for food on the ground.

Danish

Tell me what you do with the food you eat, and I'll tell you who you are. Some turn their food into fat and manure, some into work and good humor, and others, I'm told, into God. So there must be three sorts of men. I'm not one of the worst, boss, no...

Zorba the Greek

Saying of the Prophet Food Nobody has eaten better food than that won by his own labour.

Caravan of Dreams

Only by emptying ourselves out before God will we find fullness within ourselves.

Cravings: A Catholic Wrestles with Food, Self-Image, and God

In the modern food landscape, the Krafts, Monsantos, and Archer Daniels Midlands are standing in the way of food democracy.

Eat Here: Reclaiming Homegrown Pleasures in a Global Supermarket

Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

I always bring a stick of butter to a knife fight.

If you bring the booze and food, I'll bring the thirst and hunger

Chairs have legs. Four of them, like my father. Meow.

If you bring the booze and food, I'll bring the thirst and hunger

Politically, Republicans and Democrats are at opposite ends. One’s a burp and the other’s a fart.

If you bring the booze and food, I'll bring the thirst and hunger

I don’t like dirt, because nothing is dirtier. Except politics.


If you bring the booze and food, I'll bring the thirst and hunger