“Smeagol won't grub for roots and carrotses and - taters. What's taters,precious, eh, what's taters?"
"Po-ta-toes!" said Sam.”
Source: The Two Towers
“Wildflowers can't be controlled, and neither can the girl with a soul boundless as the sky, and a spirit as free and wild as the ocean.”
Source: Moon Gypsy
“O, blackberry tart, with berries as big as your thumb, purple and black, and thick with juice, and a crust to endear them that will go to cream in your mouth, and both passing down with such a taste that will make you close your eyes and wish you might live for ever in the wideness of that rich moment.”
Source: HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY
“She had witnessed in nauseating detail how the human world worked: its rituals of comfort (television, food, religion); its appetite for poison (television, food, religion); and for the monstrous edifices of desire (television, food, religion): she understood them all.”
Source: Abarat: Absolute Midnight
“It was a good thing I recognized you or I might have had a lovely meal of you with some parsley. And potatoes.”
Source: Dragon Actually
“Pie may just be the Madonna-whore of the dessert world.”
Source: American Pie: Slices of Life (and Pie) from America's Back Roads― A Delicious Food Journey Across America
“Don't wanna ever take your shoes off in coconut land. Never know when you're gonna have to run.”
Source: Coyote in Provence
“No one was irritable; we have never known anyone to remain unhappy while digesting a good meal. We enjoy lingering in a becalmed state, a kind of midpoint between the reverie of a thinker and the contentment of a cud-chewing animal, a state that should be termed the physical melancholy of gastronomy.”
Source: The Human Comedy: Selected Stories
“Our thoughts, feelings and whereabouts: Food we dish up on plates called photographs and status updates; to feed Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.; beasts with insatiable appetites.”
“Hot crumpets with butter and jam - what could be more ambrosial?”
Source: Any human heart