Learn Through Quotations

“Tell me what you eat, I'll tell you who you are.”

“Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.”

“Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.”

“There is a lot more juice in grapefruit than meets the eye.”

“We think fast food is equivalent to pornography, nutritionally speaking.”

“High-tech tomatoes. Mysterious milk. Supersquash. Are we supposed to eat this stuff? Or is it going to eat us?”

“Sex is good, but not as good as fresh, sweet corn.”

“Those who forget the pasta are condemned to reheat it.”

“I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o'clock in the morning.”

“Shipping is a terrible thing to do to vegetables. They probably get jet-lagged, just like people.”

“No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.”

“Red meat is not bad for you. Now blue-green meat, that's bad for you!”

“Chemicals, n: Noxious substances from which modern foods are made.”

“It would be nice if the Food and Drug Administration stopped issuing warnings about toxic substances and just gave me the names of one or two things still safe to eat.”

“Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.”

“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.”

“After all the trouble you go to, you get about as much actual 'food' out of eating an artichoke as you would from licking 30 or 40 postage stamps.”

“The bagel, an unsweetened doughnut with rigor mortis.”

“You can say this for ready-mixes - the next generation isn't going to have any trouble making pies exactly like mother used to make.”

“The belly rules the mind.”

“When baking, follow directions. When cooking, go by your own taste.”

“We are all dietetic sinners; only a small percent of what we eat nourishes us; the balance goes to waste and loss of energy.”

“The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”

“As for butter versus margarine, I trust cows more than chemists.”