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 IBecause 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 MerkleChemically speaking, chocolate really is the world's perfect food.
Michael LevineCooking is at once one of the simplest and most gratifying of the arts, but to cook well one must love and respect food.
Craig ClaiborneDiet cures more than doctors.
Eat less, taste more.
Eating insects is good for the environment and balanced diets.
Kofi AnnanFast 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 CharlesFood is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity.
Jonathan Safran FoerHe 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. FieldsI 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 SalazarI will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick, not wounded. Dead.
Woody AllenIf more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Lord of the Rings
Quoted: Thorin
If music be the food of love, play on.
William ShakespeareIf 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 BrysonSource: 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 CharlesMan 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 BorlaugMushrooms 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-moonOnly Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar, and fat.
Alex LevineRather three days without food than a day without tea.
Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam.
Terry JonesSource: 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 PearsonThe proof of the pudding is in the eating.
The real value of something can only be know after it has been tested.