Best food & mother Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Marlene Dietrich's ABC: Wit, Wisdom, & Recipes

“As for bread, I count that for nothin'. We always have bread and potatoes enough; but I hold a family to be in a desperate way when the mother can see the bottom of the pork barrel. Give me children that's raised on good sound pork afore all the game in the country. Game's good as a relish and so's bread; but pork is the staff of life... My children I calkerlate to bring up on pork with just as much bread and butter as they want.”

“What comforted me? That is easy. It was a strong cold chicken jelly so very, very thick. My mother's Chinese cook would fix it. He would cook it down, condense it-this broth with all sorts of feet in it, then it would gell into sheer bliss. It kept me alive once for three weeks when I was ill as a child. And I've always craved it since.”

Children Mother Three Strong Easy Alive Week Feet Food Cold Cooking Ill Chinese Cooks Bliss Culinary Chickens Thick Sheer Jelly

Author:James Beard

“I always knew that food and wine were vital, with my mother being Italian and a good cook.”

Mother Economy Food Wine Cooks Italian Food And Wine Food Safety Good Cook Being Italian

Author:Robert Mondavi

“The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.”

“I don't know what it is about food your mother makes for you, especially when it's something that anyone can make - pancakes, meat loaf, tuna salad - but it carries a certain taste of memory.”

Knows Mother Certain Memories Food Taste Meat Carrie Salad Pancakes Tuna One More Day

Book:For One More Day

Source: For One More Day

“I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.”

Source: Speaking of Freedom: The Collected Speeches

“A full Belly is the Mother of all Evil.”

Mother Evil Food Belly

Book:Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack

Source: Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack

“Garlic is as good as ten mothers.”

Mother Food Ten Cooking Culinary Garlic

Author:Les Blank

“When my mother had to get dinner for 8 she'd just make enough for 16 and only serve half.”

Enough Mother Justice Inspiring Half Food Mom Dinner Motherhood Mothers Day Happy Mothers Day Mother's Love Love For My Mother Good Happy Mothers Day Mothers Day Messages Funny Mothers Day Mother Flower Happy Mothers Day Greetings

Author:Gracie Allen

“Mothers and grandmothers: these are the people that I admire most, not so much chefs.”

People Mother Food Admire Grandmother Chef Mother And Grandmother

Author:Yotam Ottolenghi

“Hunger makes you restless. you dream about food - not just any food, but perfect food, the best food, magical meals, famous and awe-inspiring, the one piece of meat, the exact taste of buttery corn, tomatoes so ripe they split and sweeten the air, beans so crisp they snap between the teeth, gravy like mother's milk singing to your bloodstream.”

Source: Bastard Out of Carolina: A Novel

“A newborn baby has only three demands. They are warmth in the arms of its mother, food from her breasts, and security in the knowledge of her presence. Breastfeeding satisfies all three.”

Mother Three Born Security Food Baby Arms Birth Demand Satisfied Secure Breasts Warmth Satisfying Feeding Mothers Day Newborn Breastfeeding Mother Child Newborn Baby Obstetricians

Book:Childbirth Without Fear

Source: Childbirth Without Fear

“My mother didn't really cook. But she did make key lime pie, until the day the top of the evaporated milk container accidentally ended up in the pie and she decided cooking took too much concentration.”

Mother Too Much Food Keys Decided Cooking Cooks Concentration Culinary Milk Pie Juice Containers Limes

Author:William of Norwich

“It is odd how all men develop the notion, as they grow older, that their mothers were wonderful cooks. I have yet to meet a man who will admit that his mother was a kitchen assassin and nearly poisoned him.”

Men Mother Grows Wonderful Food Cooking Notion Cooks Odd Kitchen Culinary Assassins Home Cooking

Book:The papers of Samuel Marchbanks

Source: The papers of Samuel Marchbanks

“I loved my mother very much, but she was not a good cook. Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before. In our house Thanksgiving was a time for sorrow.”

Mother House Food Sorrow Taste Cooking Cooks Culinary Turkeys Good Cook

Book:Naked Beneath My Clothes: Tales of a Revealing Nature

Source: Naked Beneath My Clothes: Tales of a Revealing Nature

“Mother's words of wisdom: Answer me! Don't talk with food in your mouth!”

Mother Answers Food Words Of Wisdom Mouths

Author:Erma Bombeck

“My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.”

Ifs Hard Mother Food Cooking Cooks Culinary Home Cooking

Author:Nora Ephron

“The mental disposition of the one who prepares the food is transmitted to all those who consume it. Therefore, as far as possible the mothers should do the cooking for the entire family. If it is done while chanting the mantra, the food will benefit everyone in a spiritual way.”

Ifs Way Should Done Spiritual Mother Food Benefits Cooking Disposition Mantras Chanting

Author:Mata Amritanandamayi

“In your name, the family name is at last because it's the family name that lasts.”

Source: Wealth of Words

“An indoor man eats nothing, except that which is prepared and served by his mother with lots of insults, an outdoor man eats that which he buys, prepares, served and eaten with lots of respect.”

“Some of us can live without a society but not without a family.”

Source: Wealth of Words

“In united families, they might sleep with half filled stomach but no one sleeps with empty stomach.”

Source: Wealth of Words

“You can take the Indian out of the family, but you cannot take the family out of the Indian.”

Source: Wealth of Words

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