The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato. The best part is underground.
Salt is the policeman of taste: it keeps the various flavors of a dish in order and restrains the stronger from tyrannizing over the weaker.
I dont enjoy traveling in America. I dont like the food, the cars. It is not exotic enough. It all tastes a bit like airline food.
Those from whom nature has withheld taste invented trousers.
I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time.
People cooked with a certain integrity before fast food, 50 or 60 years ago. When the cheap food arrived, and we didn't have the education and deep cultural roots to hold on, we got swept away by fast, cheap and easy.
Actors are always the pawns. They're the last ones in the food chain.
Worry, shame, and fear can't be the energy with which we deal with food and weight. It only spurs us to eat more food and produce more glucosesugar which gets stored as fat.
A lot of it revolves around food with me because a lot of my life does in a way.
Hope is the poor man's bread.
Everyone makes pesto in a food processor. But the texture is better with a mortar and pestle, and it's just as fast.
My good health is due to a soup made of white doves. It is simply wonderful as a tonic.
As if a cookbook had anything to do with writing.
Anti-alcoholics are unfortunates in the grip of water, that terrible poison, so corrosive that out of all substances it has been chosen for washing and scouring, and a drop of water added to a clear liquid like Absinthe, muddles it.
Mellow nuts have the hardest rind.
A man who goes into a restaurant and blatantly disrespects the servers shows a strong discontent with his own being. Deep down he knows that restaurant service is the closest thing he will ever experience to being served like a king.
For Hannibal, it's really about food as art and also, Hannibal's specific brand of art. And I guess I'm a bit of a foodie.
You know, my joints don't feel sore as much, I digest food a lot better, my hands feel less swollen so I feel really good.
I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale.
Poverty is such a relative thing; but no man is really poor till life becomes a desert island that gives him neither food nor shelter nor hope.