Bread deals with living things, with giving life, with growth, with the seed, the grain that nurtures. It is not coincidence that we say bread is the staff of life. – Lionel Poilane
Bread and butter, devoid of charm in the drawing-room, is ambrosia eating under a tree. – Elizabeth Russell
Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat. – Fran Lebowitz
They claim red meat is bad for you. But I never saw a sick-looking tiger. – Chi Chi Rodriguez
I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead — not sick, not wounded — dead. – Woody Allen
He was a very valiant man who first adventured on eating oysters. – JamesI
The way you cut your meat reflects the way you live. – Confucius
It was a little four-roomed cottage where the boy lived, and his mother—good soul!—gave us hot bacon for supper, and we ate it all—five pounds—and a jam tart afterwards, and two pots of tea, and then we went to bed. – Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), 1889
Not eating meat is a decision, eating meat is an instinct. – Denis Leary
A converted cannibal is one who, on Friday, eats only fishermen. – Emily Lotney
Fish, to taste right, must swim three times — in water, in butter, and in wine. – Polish Proverb
Doctors confuse color and chemistry. The white meat of chicken is therefore the essence of a light diet and dark meat is poison. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)
Worries go down better with soup. – Jewish Proverb
Chowder breathes reassurance. It steams consolation. – Clementine Paddleford
Soup is just a way of screwing you out of a meal. – Jay Leno
Soup and fish explain half the emotions of human life. – Sydney Smith
Soup is liquid comfort. – Author Unknown
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. – G.K. Chesterton
