quotations about eating
Eating is a messy act. Anyone who's ever been tagged in a photo on Facebook after a meal out will know the thumping panic of seeing themselves mid-mouthful, spinach in the cracks of their teeth ... to eat is to admit that we are part of all the mess and madness of the world, and maybe that's something we don't want documented for posterity.
RUBY TANDOH
Eat Up
No matter what we weigh, those of us who are compulsive eaters have anorexia of the soul. We refuse to take in what sustains us. We live lives of deprivation.
GENEEN ROTH
Women
You are what what you eat eats.
MICHAEL POLLAN
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
Nothing like the act of eating for equalizing men. Dying is nothing to it.
ELIZABETH GASKELL
North and South
Eating, and hospitality in general, is a communion, and any meal worth attending by yourself is improved by the multiples of those with whom it is shared. Animals eat alone, but even then not always. The first thing monkeys did when they became humans was to gather around the campfire to celebrate, perhaps a little prematurely.
JESSE BROWNER
The Duches Who Wouldn't Sit Down
What you feel like eating at any given moment is what you should have.
FERRAN ADRIA
interview, Square Meal, Sep. 2011
There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read--unless it be reading while you eat.
E. NESBIT
The Magic World
We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.
DAVID MAMET
Boston Marriage
For it is only in company that eating is done justice; food must be divided and distributed if it is to be well received.
WALTER BENJAMIN
Reflections
No matter how developed you are in any other area of your life, no matter what you say you believe, no matter how sophisticated or enlightened you think you are, how you eat tells all.
GENEEN ROTH
Women
Eating is a major part of our first relationship with another human being. Whether we are breast or bottle fed, we all have another human being who must deal with our need for nourishment from the very start. So eating is about need, nourishment, pleasure, and feelings, but most of all it is about our relationship with other human beings.
ANITA BOHENSKY
Binge Compulsive Eating Workbook for Kids & Teens
Have a banana, Hannah
Try the salami, Tommy
Get with the gravy, Davy
Everybody eats when they come to my house
CAB CALLOWAY
"Everybody Eats When They Come to My House", The Hi-De-Ho Man
To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
Maxims
Eating is a socially acceptable way of taking time for ourselves. All else is defined as indulgence. Or selfish or unnecessary or a waste of time. We all need plunges into oblivion.
GENEEN ROTH
Breaking Free from Emotional Eating
Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.
ELSA SCHIAPARELLI
Shocking Life
This much thou hast taught me: that I should learn to take food as medicine. But during that time when I pass from the pinch of emptiness to the contentment of fullness, it is in that very moment that the snare of appetite lies baited for me.
AUGUSTINE
Confessions
When it comes to eating, you can sometimes help yourself more by helping yourself less.
RICHARD ARMOUR
attributed, Sura's Quotable Quotes, Adages and Sayings
When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.
AGATHA CHRISTIE
Lord Edgware Dies