Quotes about Food

The average American consumes ten pounds of chemical additives a year.

Since I travel so much, it's always great to be home. There's nothing like getting to raid my own refrigerator at two in the morning.

If I die without food or without eternal salvation, I want to die without food.

Until I got older, I never dreamed of what a demanding responsibility it is to keep food in the pantry, to keep clothing neat and presentable, to buy all that is needed to keep a home running.

Suppose churches taught that God is happy and that he is the source of all happiness. Suppose Christians believed that God calls them to view work, play, music, food, and drink as gracious gifts from God's hand to be responsibly enjoyed within the parameters of his commands.

this grand and cacophonous chorus began when our primal ancestors told stories to themselves about the animals that they killed for food and about the supernatural world to which the animals seemed to go when they died.

and decide you really do want a hot fudge sundae! Go ahead and eat it. It is continual excess that causes trouble—not occasional liberties. God created a wide variety of foods for us to eat. Every good food God made, you can eat.

The narrative knows the way in which hungry peasants, in need of food from the monopoly, will pay their money, then forfeit their cattle, and then finally give up their land, because Pharaoh leverages food in order to enhance his power. In the end, the peasants are so "happy" that they asked to be "owned":

No man can hope to be elected in his state without being photographed eating a hot dog at Nathan's Famous.

Every man has some favorite topic of conversation, on which, by a feigned seriousness of attention, he may be drawn to expatiate without end.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

Since I travel so much, it's always great to be home. There's nothing like getting to raid my own refrigerator at two in the morning.