“When you have helped to raise the standard of cooking, you have helped to raise the only thing in the world that really matters. We only have one or two wars in a lifetime, but we have three meals a day -- there's nothing in the world that we do as much as we do eating.” WorldTwoWarMatterThreeEatingStandardsRaisesCookingLifetimeMeals Author:Will Rogers
“The urge for Chinese food is always unpredictable: famous for no occasion, standard fare for no holiday, and the constant as to demand is either whim, the needy plebiscite of instantly famished drunks, or pregnancy.” DemandEatingStandardsConstantOccasionsChineseHolidayUrgesPregnancyUnpredictableNeedyWhimChinese Food Author:Alexander Theroux
“Eating meat and dairy products is the SAD (Standard American Diet) diet. The SAD diet can only make you sad. It causes heart disease, cancer, diabetes and makes you fat. Raising animals for food destroys the environment... And those animals are not happy. They are enslaved and live humiliating, fearful lives of abuse and tremendous suffering. Veganism turns sadness into joy.” YearsHeartReasonJoySufferingTurnsCausesSimpleAnimalEnvironmentSadnessProductsDiseaseEatingStandardsAbuseCancerFatsMeatDietsFearfulRecipesVeganismNot HappyDiabetesHumiliatingDairyHeart DiseaseEating MeatAmerican DietDairy Products Author:Sharon Gannon
“Words become, 'product', so that it is as though you'd bought a 'hand-cooked' packet of crisps; there are different makes, various flavours, but in the end, they're all rather similar and while eating them while sipping white wine makes you feel posher than if you'd bought the bog-standard ones, afterwards you don't remember very much about them.” IfsFeelsDifferentEndsHandsRememberWhiteProductsEatingStandardsWineVariousCrispsFlavourSippingBogsWhite Wine Author:Suhayl Saadi
“A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.” MenStatesChristianLyingReadingSleepWifeHumilityPrideListeningHigherEatingStandardsPreparingPlatoThankfulnessGoing To SleepTemperancePride And Humility Author:C. S. Lewis
“Girls developed eating disorders when our culture developed a standard of beauty that they couldn't obtain by being healthy. When unnatural thinness became attractive, girls did unnatural things to be thin.” CultureGirlHealthyEatingStandardsAttractiveDisorderUnnaturalAnorexiaEating DisorderThinnessStandards Of BeautyAttractive Girl Book:Reviving Ophelia Source: Reviving Ophelia