Food Quotes
“Men can absent themselves from real life for their art more easily. Women are anchored into the quotidian business of getting food on the table, making sure everybody's socks match, the soccer gear is ready. I admire idealists, but they're usually enabled by someone who holds the tether on their balloon, who pays the bills and sweeps up after them.”
“As far away as you can get from the process of mechanisms and machinery, the more likely your food's going to taste good. And that - that is probably the largest thing I can hand to anybody is let your hands touch it. Let them make it.”
-- Mario Batali
“I don't like to generalize but I've had nothing but bad experiences with Mexican food in Europe.”
-- Ezra Koenig
“We lived in a one-bedroom apartment in Northwest D.C. I was essentially raised by a Panamanian man and a Jamaican woman. That's why I have such a fascination with Jamaican food.”
-- Wale
“If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after.”
-- Shmuel Y. Agnon
“You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn't throw up, you weren't late, you weren't nauseated by the food. So you are grateful.”
-- Paul Theroux