Nobody will buy a half-cooked food!

I am thankful when I am hungry because then I know that when I eat, the food will taste better. Life has taught me that my true contentment rests in hope, and the pleasure itself is secondary. It is self-awareness, not happiness, that maintains peace.

Man was designed in a way in which he must eat in order to give him a solid reason to go to work everyday. This helps to keep him out of trouble. God is wise.

If you want the meat, you have to take the bones.

Coffee-black as hell, strong as death, sweet as love.

He that will eat the kernel must crack the nut.

A little gall spoils a great deal of honey.

Even crumbs are bread.

Can one start a fast with baklava in one's hand?

I don't care where I sit as long as I get fed.

It (soup) hadn't been ladled from the top of the caldron, but it wasn't the stuff from the bottom either.

Serenely full, the epicure would say, Fate cannot harm me, I have dined to-day.

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

You'll be hungry again in an hour.

Gluttony is not a secret vice.

It is harder to be unhappy when you are eating.

Women alone always order sole. It means something.

Public and private food in America has become eatable, here and there extremely good. Only the fried potatoes go on unchanged, as deadly as before.

Some people Franz knew once visited the Turkish restaurant and reported to him that the food was quite good and the decor, in general, surprisingly attractive, and that for a foreign place, they stressed the foreign, it was remarkably clean and the service quite up to standards, not what you might expect from the Turks.

Cabbage, n: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.