Feeling a bit hungry? Here are some proverbs and quotes about food.
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A meal of bread, cheese and beer constitutes the perfect food.Queen Elizabeth I
Because of technological limits, there is a certain amount of food that we can produce per acre. If we were to have intensive greenhouse agriculture, we could have much higher production.Ralph Merkle
Chemically speaking, chocolate really is the world's perfect food.Michael Levine
Cooking is at once one of the simplest and most gratifying of the arts, but to cook well one must love and respect food.Craig Claiborne
Diet cures more than doctors.
Eat less, taste more.
Eating insects is good for the environment and balanced diets.Kofi Annan
Fast food may appear to be cheap food and, in the literal sense it often is, but that is because huge social and environmental costs are being excluded from the calculations.Prince Charles
Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity.Jonathan Safran Foer
He who has plenty of pepper may season his food as he likes.
He who plants a coconut tree plants vessels and clothing, food and drink, a habitation for himself and a heritage for his children.
I cook with wine. Sometimes I even add it to the food.W.C. Fields
I have always said there is only one thing that can bring our nation down - our dependence on foreign countries for food and energy. Agriculture is the backbone of our economy.John Salazar
I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick, not wounded. Dead.Woody Allen
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Lord of the Rings
Quoted: Thorin
If music be the food of love, play on.William Shakespeare
If you are looking for a fly in your food it means that you are full.
Imagine Italian food without tomatoes, Greek food without eggplant, Thai and Indonesian foods without peanut sauce, curries without chilies, hamburgers without French fries or ketchup, African food without cassava.Bill Bryson
Source: At Home
Effect of the distribution of new world crops
It is vitally important that we can continue to say, with absolute conviction, that organic farming delivers the highest quality, best-tasting food, produced without artificial chemicals or genetic modification, and with respect for animal welfare and the environment, while helping to maintain the landscape and rural communities.Prince Charles
Man is what he eats.
Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability to ensure his food supply.Norman Borlaug
Mushrooms are the food of the gods.
Now, more than ever, we need to connect the dots between climate, poverty, energy, food and water. These issues cannot be addressed in isolation.Ban Ki-moon
Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar, and fat.Alex Levine
Rather three days without food than a day without tea.
Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam.Terry Jones
Source: Monty Python
The black dog gets the food; the white dog gets the blame.
The chicken that digs for food will not sleep hungry.
The impact of climate change on agriculture could result in problems with food security and may threaten livelihood activities upon which much of the population depends.Ian Pearson
The proof of the pudding is in the eating.The real value of something can only be know after it has been tested.
The rabbit runs faster than the fox, because the rabbit is running for his life, while the fox is only running for his dinner.Richard Dawkins
There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. But sad or merry, I must leave it now. Farewell!J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 18 - The Return Journey
Quoted: Thorin
These things are just plain annoying. 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.Miss Piggie
We used to be a nation of farmers, but now it's less than two percent of the population in the United States. So a lot of us don't know a lot about what it takes to grow food.
