One of the joys our technological civilization has lost is the excitement with which seasonal flowers and fruits were welcomed; the first daffodil, strawberry, or cherry are now things of the past, along with their precious moment of arrival. Even the tangerine — now a seedless clementine — appears months before Christmas.

—Derek Jarman

 

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

 —Calvin Trillin

There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokeable which has any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.

 —Mark Twain

If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.

 —Carl Sagan

Nobody seems more obsessed by diet than our anti-materialistic, otherworldly, New Age spiritual types.  But if the material world is merely illusion, an honest guru should be as content with Budweiser and bratwurst as with raw carrot juice, tofu, and seaweed slime.

—Edward Abbey

Hunger is the best sauce in the world.

 —Cervantes

The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you’re hungry again.

—George Miller

 

We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink.

—Epicurus

The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor.

—Chinese Proverb