“Goat cheese... produced a bizarre eating era when sensible people insisted that this miserable cheese produced by these miserable creatures reared on miserable hardscrabble earth was actually superior to the magnificent creamy cheeses of the noblest dairy animals bred in the richest green valleys of the earth.” PeopleEarthAnimalFoodCreaturesEatingGreenCookingSuperiorsMiserableErasCulinaryValleysSensibleCheeseMagnificentBizarreGoatsDairy Author:Russell Baker
“Scallops are expensive, so they should be treated with some class. But then, I suppose that every creature that gives his life for our table should be treated with class.” GivingShouldClassFoodCreaturesTablesTreatedExpensiveScallops Author:Jeff Smith
“Eating with the fullest pleasure - pleasure, that is, that does not depend on ignorance - is perhaps the profoundest enactment of our connection with the world. In this pleasure we experience our dependence and our gratitude, for we are living in a mystery, from creatures we did not make and powers we cannot comprehend.” WorldDoePleasureMysteryFoodIgnoranceDependsGratitudeCreaturesEatingConnectionsDependence Book:What Are People For?: Essays Source: What Are People For?: Essays
“[Clover] secretly hitched a ride with a nice German couple and their new baby...Clover appeared to the baby, so as to be a delightful, soothing surprise. Well, the child did like Clover. In fact, she held him and cooed. When the parents turned around to look at her and saw their child holding a furry, living creature, they needlessly panicked.” WellsLooksChildrenFactsParentSawsNiceFoodBabyCoupleCreaturesSurpriseHungryDelightfulSoothingLiving CreaturesNew BabyFurryClovers Author:Obert Skye
“I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry and unhappy like we do. I feel very deeply about vegetarianism and the animal kingdom. It was my dog Boycott who led me to question the right of humans to eat other sentient beings.” FeelsHumansFeelingsRealizingInspiringAnimalDogFoodLife PhilosophyColdCreaturesEatingHungryUnhappyKingdomsMeatVegetarianVeganAnimal RightsMy DogVegetarianismAnimal CrueltyVegetarian HealthSentient BeingsBoycottAnimal AbuseAnimal Kingdom Author:Cesar Chavez
“Actually, the true gourmet, like the true artist, is one of the unhappiest creatures existent. His trouble comes from so seldom finding what he constantly seeks: perfection.” ArtistTroubleFoodCreaturesFindingsPerfectionTrue ArtistsGourmetGourmet Food Book:La bonne table Source: La bonne table
“If any man has drunk a little too deeply from the cup of physical pleasure; if he has spent too much time at his desk that should have been spent asleep; if his fine spirits have become temporarily dulled; if he finds the air too damp, the minutes too slow, and the atmosphere too heavy to withstand; if he is obsessed by a fixed idea which bars him from any freedom of thought: if he is any of these poor creatures, we say, let him be given a good pint of amber-flavored chocolate... and marvels will be performed.” IfsMenShouldLittlesHas BeensIdeasSpiritGivenPleasurePoorToo MuchAirMinutesFoodFineCreaturesShould HaveCookingHeavyBarsDrunkCupsAtmosphereFixedObsessedCulinaryChocolateDesksShould Have BeenFreedom Of ThoughtAmberDampPintsSweets And DessertsChocolate Bars Book:The Physiology of Taste: or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy Source: The Physiology of Taste: or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy
“Vegetarianism can easily reach religious proportions. Refraining from meat on moral grounds serves to dignify feelings of guilt toward sad-eyed, furry creatures and substitutes righteousness for squeamishness.” FeelingsReligiousMoralFoodCreaturesCookingGuiltMeatProportionCulinaryRighteousnessSubstitutesVegetarianVeganVegetarianismFurry Author:Bill Griffith