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“Once you become an elaborate and well-developed culture, anything from Rome or the Etruscans, for that matter, the food starts to become a representation of what the culture is. When the food can transcend being just fuel, that's when you start to see these different permutations.”

Wells Different Matter Culture Food Fuel Rome Representation

Author:Mario Batali

“Food like love is a deeply emotional matter.”

Matter Love Is Food Emotional Like Love

Author:Julia Child

“In America, even your menus have the gift of language.... The Chef's own Vienna Roast. A hearty, rich meat loaf, gently seasoned to perfection and served in a creamy nest of mashed farm potatoes and strictly fresh garden vegetables. Of course, what you get is cole slaw and a slab of meat, but that doesn't matter because the menu has already started your juices going. Oh, those menus. In America, they are poetry.”

Matter America Courses Language Rich Food Garden Perfection Cooking Meat Culinary Farms Vegetables Chef Potatoes Juice Nests Menus Vienna Hearty Slabs

Author:Laurie Lee

“It doesn't matter who you are, or what you've done, or think you can do. There's a confrontation with destiny awaiting you. Somewhere, there is a chile you cannot eat.”

Thinking Matter Done Can Do Destiny Food Cooking Who You Are Culinary Confrontation Chile

Author:Daniel Pinkwater

“No matter what kind of diet you are on, you can usually eat as much as you want of anything you don't like.”

Want Kind Matter Food No Matter What Cooking Diets Culinary

Author:Walter Slezak

“Grilling, broiling, barbecuing - whatever you want to call it - is an art, not just a matter of building a pyre and throwing on a piece of meat as a sacrifice to the gods of the stomach.”

Want Art Matter Pieces Sacrifice Food Building Cooking Meat Culinary Stomach Throwing Grilling

Author:James Beard

“While it is true that many people simply can't afford to pay more for food, either in money or time or both, many more of us can. After all, just in the last decade or two we've somehow found the time in the day to spend several hours on the internet and the money in the budget not only to pay for broadband service, but to cover a second phone bill and a new monthly bill for television, formerly free. For the majority of Americans, spending more for better food is less a matter of ability than priority. p.187”

People Two Matter Lasts Found Hours Ability Pay Food Television Internet Bills Majority Phones Spending Decades Priorities Budgets Nutrition Broadband

Author:Michael Pollan

“The symbolism of meat-eating is never neutral. To himself, the meat-eater seems to be eating life. To the vegetarian, he seems to be eating death. There is a kind of gestalt-shift between the two positions which makes it hard to change, and hard to raise questions on the matter at all without becoming embattled.”

Life Kind Two Matter Hard Philosophy Seems Death Position Food Becoming Eating Raises Meat Vegetarian Controversy Shifting Symbolism Meat Eating Gestalt Raises Questions

Book:Animals and why They Matter

Source: Animals and why They Matter

“Things that really matter are the things that gold can't buy, so let's have another cup o' coffee and let's have another piece o' pie.”

Matter Pieces Food Gold Coffee Cups Pie

Author:Irving Berlin

“Do you have a kinder, more adaptable friend in the food world than soup? Who soothes you when you are ill? Who refuses to leave you when you are impoverished and stretches its resources to give a hearty sustenance and cheer? Who warms you in the winter and cools you in the summer? Yet who also is capable of doing honor to your richest table and impressing your most demanding guests? Soup does its loyal best, no matter what undignified conditions are imposed upon it. You don't catch steak hanging around when you're poor and sick, do you?”

“It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.”

Matter Hard Loss Inspiring Food Citizens Ears Fellows Arguing Nutrition Belly Weight Loss

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)

“Peace is no mere matter of men fighting or not fighting. Peace, to have meaning for many who have known only suffering in both peace and war, must be translated into bread or rice, shelter, health, and education, as well as freedom and human dignity - a steadily better life. If peace is to be secure, long-suffering and long-starved, forgotten peoples of the world, the underprivileged and the undernourished, must begin to realize without delay the promise of a new day and a new life.”

“It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs.”

Matter Food Tables Cooking Chairs Culinary Waiter

Author:W. S. Gilbert

“To see the butcher slap the steak before he laid it on the block, and give his knife a sharpening, was to forget breakfast instantly. It was agreeable too - it really was - to see him cut it off so smooth and juicy. There was nothing savage in the act, although the knife was large and keen; it was a piece of art, high art; there was delicacy of touch, clearness of tone, skilful handling of the subject, fine shading. It was the triumph of mind over matter; quite.”

Source: Martin Chuzzlewit: Easyread Comfort Edition

“The right diet directs sexual energy into the parts that matter.”

Matter Energy Food Diets American Diet

Author:Barbara Cartland

“No matter how thin you slice it it's still baloney.”

Stills Matter Food Cooking Culinary Baloney

Author:Rube Goldberg

“Slicing a warm slab of bacon is a lot like giving a ferret a shave. No matter how careful you are, somebody's going to get hurt.”

Giving Matter Hurt Food Careful Warm Ferrets Slabs

Author:Alton Brown

“Unless we change our food choices, nothing else matters. Because it is meat that is destroying most of our forests. It is meat that pollutes the waters. It is meat that is creating disease which leads to all our money being diverted to hospitals. So, it's the first choice for anybody who wants to save the Earth.”

Want Firsts Matter Earth Choices Water Animal Money Food Disease Creating Environmental Saved Forests Meat Hospitals Destroying Pollution Environmentalist Power Of Choice Food Choices

Author:Maneka Gandhi

“A man's own dinner is to himself so important that he cannot bring himself to believe that it is a matter utterly indifferent to anyone else.”

Men Believe Important Matter Food Cooking Dinner Indifference Culinary Indifferent

Book:The Complete Chronicles of Barsetshire: The Warden, Barchester Towers, Doctor Thorne, Framley Parsonage, The Small House at Allington, The Last Chronicle of Barset (Unabridged): Collection of six historical novels dealing with politics and romance - Classics of English literature from the author of The Eustace Diamonds, He Knew He Was Right and The Prime Minister

Source: The Complete Chronicles of Barsetshire: The Warden, Barchester Towers, Doctor Thorne, Framley Parsonage, The Small House at Allington, The Last Chronicle of Barset (Unabridged): Collection of six historical novels dealing with politics and romance - Classics of English literature from the author of The Eustace Diamonds, He Knew He Was Right and The Prime Minister