Food Writing Quotes

Learning Food Feeding Food Writing

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

“Feeding is learning.”

“I’ve sat in restaurants and viewed the food on the plate as I would a half-blooded mongrel. I may feel sorry for it and given time even get to like it a little, but it’s never going to really gain my affections. The plate in front of you should tantalize, seduce and enchant you. It should be a cheeky devil, a minx, a hussy even, but never a desperado”

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

Food Cooking Food Writing Food And Wine Chefs Cooking Quote

Book:Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe

Source: Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe

“Seeing is deceiving. It's eating that's believing.”

Food Cooking Food Writing

Author:James Thurber

“Are you hungry?' I say, slightly mischievously. 'Very, he says, unfurling his napkin. This is a shame, because we're sitting down for a tasting menu that will not be a meal, but more a random collection of the chef's ambitions, presented with seventeen verses of Vogon poetry from the staff as they dole out tiny plates of his life story. These tomatoes remind chef of his grandmother's allotment. This eel is a tribute to his uncle's fishing prowess. I will pull the requisite faces to cope with all of this. The lunch will be purposefully challenging, at times confusing and served ritualistically in a manner that requires the diner to behave like a congregation member of a really obscure sect who knows specifically when to bow her head and when to pass the plate and what lines to utter when.”

Funny Food Humour Chef Food Writing Tasting Restaurant Eating Out Fine Dining

Book:Hungry

Source: Hungry

“Scatter the herbs across the table, sit together, and pick off the tender stems and leaves. There is a meditative rhythm and ritual to it all. It's one of those rare times we are asked to slow down, and we are able to converse, to commiserate, to gossip, to air out grievances, to share secrets and dreams. Life happens in these spaces, amid a field of greens.”

Food Iran Food Writing Persian Persian Cuisine Iranian Cuisine

Book:Bottom of the Pot: Persian Recipes and Stories

Source: Bottom of the Pot: Persian Recipes and Stories

“This cook shows that liberation must give dreams earthly form. Her food demonstrates that the purpose of political struggle is to make life materially vibrant and gorgeous for each person.”

Food Food Writing Political Struggle

“What I want for the people I cook for is for them to enjoy their own perversions at the table, to feel free to exhibit a lack of constraint.”

Source: Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen

Food Cooking Food Writing Perversion Dinner Party Dinner Parties Cooking Quote

“Mrs Beeton writes in anticipation of her absence.”

Source: Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen

Food Cooking Recipes Food Writing Cookbooks Cooking Quote Recipe Writing

“Student life is tough anywhere, and more so, away from the support systems one is used to at home. Even for the most adaptable among us, in alien surroundings, eating food that is familiar is comforting.”

Source: Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen

Food Food Writing

Book:Tiffin: Memories and Recipes of Indian Vegetarian Food

Source: Tiffin: Memories and Recipes of Indian Vegetarian Food

“Documenting what I do in the kitchen can feel like the task of recording almost nothing. But it is the nothing I am doing, and do almost every day, and have been doing every day for over a decade. It is the nothing that has been part of almost every social interaction of my life as an adult and through which I have come to know almost all the people I love. It is the nothing through which I have been sustained and transformed.”

Food Cooking Food Writing Food Preparation Cooking Quotes

“Torture Cuisine by Stewart Stafford Kitchen death growls, Whipping that cream, Beating those eggs, Burning all the toast. Knifing diced cheese, Drawn, quartered ham, Straining tomato sauce, Crushed-down walnuts. Peeling potatoes naked, Then smashing them up, You say purée, I say mash, Turkey and chicken skewers. © Stewart Stafford, 2022. All rights reserved.”

Source: Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen

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Author:Stewart Stafford

“The orange tree took time to create this masterpiece.”

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Author:Thich Nhat Hanh

“In the West the word “delicious” is likely to conjure up something laced with sugar, fat and salt, whereas in Japan it signifies a flavour found in mushrooms, grilled fish and light broths.”

Food Delicious Food Writing

“The Japanese only really started eating what we think of as Japanese food in the years after the Second World War.”

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

Food Japan Food Writing Food History

“Japan has somehow managed to achieve the ideal attitude to eating: an obsession with culinary pleasure that is actually conductive to health.”

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

Food Eating Japan Food Writing

“Japanese cuisine did not change all at once but in stages.”

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

Food Japan Food Writing Japanese Cuisine

“If we consistently eat less sugar, it actually changes our sense of sweetness.”

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

Food Sugar Food Writing

“When eating goes wrong, the antidote is not a life without food, but figuring out how we can bring ourselves to eat new food in new ways.”

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

“If you can improve the eating, the rest of life gets a little better too.”

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

“Part of the magic of childhood for most of us, looking back, was the sensation of freedom in your own body - the feeling that these legs were made for skipping.”

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

Magic Childhood Food Food Writing

“The needs of the eating disorder sufferer are like a warped version of the travails we all face when learning to eat.”

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

Food Eating Eating Disorder Food Writing

“Before addressing what to eat, the most urgent matter is how to eat.”

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

“When you are eating all the time, food curiously loses much of its joy, along with its sense of ceremony and sociability.”

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

“Before we can resolve our endless quandaries about food - such as ‘where the zucchini came from and how far it had to travel’ - we should first establish the basic paradigm that at certain times, every day, we stop, we sit and we eat.”

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

“Eating is about food.”

“What all of us need is to find a way to eat regular meals, to take pleasure in a variety of foods, and to be able to eat them without being consumed by negative emotions.”

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

Food Eating Emotions Food Writing

“The Japanese must be doing something right in the way they eat, given that they live longer on average than people form any other nation.”

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

Food Japan Food Writing Japanese Food

“Almost the only places in the world that have lower obesity averages than Japan are countries such as Ethiopia or North Korea where there is widespread hunger and food itself is scarce.”

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

Food Japan Obesity Food Writing

“There are signs that the Japanese themselves consider their excellent cuisine as an essential part of what it means to be Japanese.”

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

Food Japan Food Writing Cuisine

“With our own personal diets, we often convince ourselves that there is something vital within us that prevents us from ever eating differently.”

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

Food Eating Diet Food Writing

“There is a deep resistance to the idea of dietary change, at both a cultural and an individual level. And yet, you accept the premise that eating is a learned behaviour, it follows that changing eating habits must be - if not likely and certainly not easy - at least possible.”

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

Change Food Eating Diet Food Writing

“Umami is the savoury meatiness in seaweed and miso and soy sauce. It is, to a large extent, the concept that enables Japanese cuisine to be healthy and attractive at the same time.”

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

Food Japan Food Writing Cuisine Umami

“The concept of “delicious” was born in Japan in 1908 when a chemist called Ikeda discovered a “fifth taste” called umami that was neither bitter nor salty nor sweet nor sour but something more wonderful and compelling than any of these.”

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

Food Japan Delicious Food Writing Umami

“Soldiers, like footballers, are famously resistant to new foods.”

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

Change Food Football Eating Soldiers Food Writing

“Japan shows the extent to which food habits evolve.”

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

Change Food Japan Food Writing

“Flavour principles change. Diets change. And the people eating these diets also change.”

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

Change Food Eating Diet Food Writing

“It turns out that wherever we are from, people are capable of altering not just what they eat but what they want to eat and their behaviour when eating.”

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

Food Eating Diet Food Writing

“Having other people try to fix you is one of the things that paradoxically holds you back from reaching that magical place called “After”

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

Change Food Food Writing

“You are unlikely to eat something if you don’t know what it is.”

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

“When our preferences are in order, nutrition should take care of itself.”

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

Food Nutrition Food Writing

“No one is too busy to cook.”

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

Food Cooking Food Writing

“It is possible to educate children in the pleasures of food; and that doing so will set the children up for a lifetime of healthy eating. Feeding is learning.”

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

Children Education Food Feeding Food Writing

“It is not about learning to like this or that vegetable; but developing an overall attitude to eating that is more open to variety and less governed by the simple sugar-salt-fat palate of junk food.”

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

“We are stuck in habits and attitudes that seem impossible to break. We are stuck thinking food is love. We are stuck with guilt about food because we are female; or stuck not liking vegetables because we are male. We are stuck feeding hungers that often exist more in our brain than our stomach. We are stuck in our happy childhood memories of unhealthy foods. But the biggest way we are stuck is in our belief that our eating habits are something we can do very little about. In fact, we can do plenty. The first step is seeing that eating is a skill that each of us learns and that we retain the capacity for learning it, no matter how old we are.”

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

Change Food Eating Habits Food Writing

“In contrast to all the other things we work on in life that are far less likely to increase our wellbeing - including dieting - it is astonishing how little effort we put into changing our eating preferences for the better.”

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

Food Eating Diet Food Writing

“You were a child once, too. When you arrived in the world, your only food preferences were milk and buried memories from your mother’s diet. Those early weeks were dominated by meals - the stab of hunger, the sweet contentment of being sated - but you could not yet tell dinner from breakfast. You didn’t yet know - lucky you! - what a trans fat was; or a frappuccino. No one had taught you to worry whether you were getting enough protein, or to feel guilt when your stomach was full. You had never watched a fast-food commercial, and on the relative merits of quinoa and macarons you had no opinion. Food was a wide open for you. The great garden of ingredients - from bitter greens to sweet dates - was all equally unknown: all new, all strange, all waiting to be discovered.”

Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat