“Grace saw Susan’s restaurant meal as one consumed out of duty: a family brought together on the condition of convenience and ease; the time-frame predetermined by the restaurant’s hours or next bookings; the menu at someone else’s discretion, their tastes, their preferences. Not a beating heart anywhere, Grace thought. And no blue ribbon moments, except the opening a wallet.”
Source: Grace's Table
“I miss my biscuit baby
My flour power lady
A friend to saints and sinners
Up for breakfast, lunch or dinner
She rises on her own
She never makes me eat a scone
My flour power lady
Oh, I miss my biscuit baby”
Source: My Biscuit Baby
“8:01… FOOD FOR NONE!”
“8:02… FEED US, DUDE!”
“Five more minutes…”
“8:06… GET THE SWISH!”
“8:10… SWISH HIM AGAIN!”
“Oh, c’mon—”
Source: Elvis Puffs Out: A Breaking Cat News Adventure
“They wheeled in golden carts covered in snacks and treats as pretty as treasure in a chest. There were cookies shaped like castles, tarts topped in glistening pastel fruit, poached pears in a swirling golden sauce, candied dates wearing miniature crowns, and oysters on ice with pink pearls that glistened under the light.”
Source: A Curse for True Love
“One day a customer asked Ettie what she was making for dinner. "Food," she answered without hesitation.”
Source: The Smartest Woman I Know
“, Grandmother had the eye; the gift of clairvoyance. I don’t mean she ran a psychic hotline or could tell neighbors where their lost dog went. I mean she had the power to see – she could look at a pan of leftovers and tell exactly, to the spoonful, what size container was needed to store it in the fridge.”
Source: It's a Southern Thing: Life's Different Here, Y'all
“Dancing also helped me make this change. If food and I had been battling, so had my body and I. In the culture I grew up in, the messages were so powerful that my girlfriends and I were wearing girdles to school by the time we were in junior high. When I began to dance, the old battle—me versus my body—was transformed. Instead of being just a problem to reshape and control, my body became a source of satisfaction and pleasure.”
Source: Diet for a Small Planet: The Book That Started a Revolution in the Way Americans Eat
“What we eat is determined by the food around us, its price and how it's marketed--that is what needs to change.”
“Since we are born with strong tendences to be sensitive to others’ emotional expressions, we are less likely to consume foods when we perceive disgust in others as they consume those foods.”
Source: A Guide to the Psychology of Eating
“It would be squash fritters, squash pudding, pierogies stuffed with squash until autumn. Every year they ate squash until they were sick of it.”
Source: Goblin Market