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I'm pretty sure that in the second before death, a dieter thinks, "Damn, why did I give up blueberry donuts 17 years ago?"
JOAQUIN PHOENIX, actor
A man is what he eats.
Der Mensch ist, was er isst.
LUDWIG FEUERBACH
If you want to prolong your life, shorten your meals.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
The table is the only place where people don’t get bored from the very first minute.
ANSELM BRILLAT-SAVARIN
Since we are condemned to eat, let us eat well.
ANSELM BRILLAT-SAVARIN
After a good dinner, you can forgive anyone, even your relatives.
OSCAR WILDE
Some eat to live, others starve for the same purpose.
Don't put off until dinner what you can eat at lunch.
ALEXANDER PUSHKIN
It seems to me that every husband prefers a good dish without music to one without a good dish.
IMMANUEL KANT
Evil people live in order to eat and drink, virtuous people eat and drink in order to live.
SOCRATES
Animals feed, people eat; but only smart people they know how to eat.
ANSELM BRILLAT-SAVARIN
The diet is a scientifically developed program for the fight between the brain and the stomach, which is obviously doomed to failure.
ILYA GERCHIKOV
Hunger is the best seasoning for food.
SOCRATES
War is war, and lunch is on schedule.
FRIEDRICH WILHELM I
Appetite comes with eating.
FRANCOIS RABLAIS
You have to love what you eat or love the person you cook for. Cooking is an act of love.
ALAIN CHAPELLE, chief.
Where there are pancakes, there we are, where there is porridge with butter, there is our place.
Russian proverb
If a country does not have at least fifty varieties of cheese and good wine, then the country has reached the end of its rope.
SALVADOR DALI
The invention of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
A. BRILLAT-SAVARIN
The rule of three “Cs”: only the one who can prepare a salad, sauce, soup is considered a real cook.
To become tasty, fish must swim three times: in water, in oil and in wine.
Fish, to taste good, must swim three times in water, in butter, and in wine.
Proverb
The most delicious cakes in my life were the cakes in the Warsaw confectionery in 1913 and these rats. Rats gave us the opportunity to survive, the cakes gave us a guide to why...
Aunt KATYA, blockade survivor. Quote from: The New Times, 2010 No. 15, page 60
I love food. The food is delicious.
I Like Food. Food Tastes Good.
English book title
On the continent [Europe] people eat well, in Britain there are good table manners.
GEORGE MIKESH
In case of major troubles, I deny myself everything except food and drink.
OSCAR WILDE
To live well, you need to eat well.
A person should know no less about food than about mathematics or his native language.
GORDON RAMSAY, British chef, to Igor Serdyuk in an interview “In pursuit of extremes.” Quote from: Vedomosti, August 7, 2009
Cook quickly, eat slowly.
Hunger is the best seasoning for food.
Cibi condimentum est fames.
Latin
He who eats and drinks hastily does not live long in the world.
Czech proverb
Obesity in developed countries is a sign of poverty. When there is plenty of food, the wealthier prefer to eat not as much as possible, but as best as possible.
JOHN KAY, Financial Times columnist. Quote from: Vedomosti, September 26, 2008, p. 4
You usually don’t have enough health to buy your favorite food.
SOMEONE
The dishes should be beautiful, the rest is not important.
Alena, daughter of Alexander Galich, about the principle of a father who is unpretentious in food. Quote from: Story, 2008, No. 5, p. 105
They throw a stone at you, throw food back at you.
Bashkir proverb
“Eat simple food and you can do anything.”
SOMEONE
“To stay in shape, you need rest, good food and, most importantly, no sports.”
WINSTON CHURCHILL
If you want to know me, eat with me.
JAMES JOYCE, "Ulysses"
God created food, and the devil created cooks.
JOHN TAYLOR
You need to eat more dense foods. You will immediately become a different person.
JAMES JOYCE, "Ulysses"
Cheese is the corpse of milk.
JAMES JOYCE, "Ulysses"
For a normal Japanese, there is nothing worse than rice that has lost its whiteness.
HARUKI MURAKAMI. Quote from: The New Times, 2008, No. 8, p. 61
Many of my views and habits were formed due to the fact that in my young years I was overfed with black caviar.
VIKTOR EROFEEV
It is easier to imagine Britain without the Queen than without tea.
British joke
No one can convince me that a brilliant symphony has more content than a brilliant salad. If we erect a monument to Mozart, we are obliged to erect a monument to Mr. Olivier.
ANATOLY MARIENGOF, “Cynics”
“Tea should taste bitter, just like beer, and sugar or milk kills its true flavor.”
ALDOS HUXLEY
“How can we hope for peace and prosperity on earth if our bodies are living graves in which slaughtered animals are buried?”
LEO TOLSTOY
“Of course, the best English cuisine is simply french cuisine».
GEORGE ORWELL, quoting this phrase from a French book and objecting to it passionately
“You need to cook slowly, with feeling, from the freshest organic ingredients, and eat with those you love, sharing big table. By endlessly accelerating the rhythm of life, we deprive ourselves of life itself.”
CARLO PETRINI, founder of the Slow Food movement. Quote from: “Kommersant-Weekend”, 2007, No. 49, p. 28
"English cuisine is much better than its reputation."
Connoisseurs
“Gastronomic art teaches a person to manage his time rationally and prudently. It cultivates in us both wise patience and instant reaction.”
SERGEY PARKHOMENKO in the article “About pea soup, with which no one is in a hurry.” "Kommersant Weekend", 2007, No. 62, p. 49
“Classic vinaigrette: everything delicious in one plate.”
SOMEONE
“Let them do what they want, but raising the price of coffee is too much.”
The heroine of SERGEY DOVLATOV
“I simply cannot eat caviar, but I have to force myself.”
The heroine of Audrey Tautou in the film “Fatal Beauty”
“It has long been known that in the kitchen quantity never turns into quality, rather the opposite.”
DARIA TSIVINA about the restaurant menu, where almost all the capitals of the world are represented. "Kommersant-Weekend", 2007, No. 36, p. 30
“The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach. Feel free to pave the same path to a woman’s heart.”
SVETLANA ZAKHAROVA, prima ballerina of the Bolshoi Theater
“Be careful with a person who does not know how to eat or feed.”
Prince VLADIMIR ODOEVSKY, “Kitchen”, “Book Review”, 2007, No. 2, p. 19
"Too many cooks - goodbye stew."
English proverb
"Sauce hides a thousand sins."
An old cook's saying
“The second freshness - what nonsense! There is only one freshness – the first, and it is also the last.”
MIKHAIL BULGAKOV, "The Master and Margarita"
“For me, a restaurant is, first of all, about people. I want them to have fun."
ARKADY NOVIKOV, restaurateur. GQ, 2007, no. 4, p. 192
“You need to eat either fast food or black caviar. But both must be accompanied by fried potatoes.”
PARIS HILTON. Quote from: “7 Days”, 2007, No. 12, p. 35
“If you have unexpected guests and there is nothing at home, go down to the cellar and take a leg of lamb.”
ELENA MOLOKHOVETS. Quote from: “Kommersant Weekly”, 2007, No. 29, p. 39
"Ignoring walnuts, you are making one of the main mistakes in your life.”
Leaders of the Belgian Walnut Society. Quote from: “7 Days”, 2007, No. 12, p. 98
“Only fools are not gourmets.”
Norman wisdom
“The stuffing cannot be turned back.”
SOMEONE
“An Italian has only two thoughts in his head; the second is spaghetti.”
CATHERINE DENEUVE
“There is nothing heavier than an empty stomach.”
Malagasy saying
“Papanov and I worked abroad, we were paid little, so we ate canned food. One day he told me: “If you think that these canned goods are not reflected in our eyes, you are mistaken.”
ARMEN JIGARKHANYAN
"Don't waste your time trying to make the world's best spaghetti sauce - tastier than that“What’s sold in the supermarket around the corner won’t work anyway.”
From a fashion magazine
“A moonlit night and boiled rice always come in handy.”
Japanese saying
“You need to eat only good food and little by little, the same with books and movies.”
Krzysztof Zanussi
“He who does not feed the body does not feed the spirit.”
Chefs' favorite saying
“The plate should have one part cruelty – pepper, vinegar, spices, three parts strength and six parts tenderness.”
“A good cook has a lot of character and feeling.”
EMIL YUN, chef of the Strasbourg restaurant “Au Crocodile”, Izvestia dated August 12, 2005
“When you try a seemingly simple haute cuisine dish, you feel the greatness of the chef being revealed.”
EMIL YUN, chef of the Strasbourg restaurant “Au Crocodile”, Izvestia dated August 12, 2005
“Are there rehabilitation clinics for Coca-Cola drinkers? I drink six cans a day!”
CARMEN ELECTRA
I'm a vegetarian not because I love animals, I just hate plants.
WHITNEY BROWN
If they don't have bread, let them eat cakes.
Allegedly, Marie Antoinette addressed the hungry poor of revolutionary Paris. In fact, the phrase had been circulating in the French press since 1760, that is, thirty years before the revolution. In addition, in the original there are not cakes, but brioche - white buns, that is, the same bread.
The main thing in treatment is not the quantity of drugs, but their right choice Therefore, a correct diagnosis plays a primary role.
No one will sell you the best medicine at the pharmacy, because this is the right way of life.
The habit of illness is also essentially a disease, and one of the most dangerous.
Morbid imagination gives birth to imaginary diseases for which there is no cure.
Syphilis is an exceptional disease because it is born in pleasure. The rest of the ailments are from nerves.
A conservative lifestyle based on unity with nature is the key to victory over most illnesses.
The disease has become the norm even for a healthy person.
Two things that a patient should take care of are appetite and good mood, otherwise the disease cannot be defeated.
A headache is not a reason to go hungry.
All people share a common fate - illness and death.
There is no greater emptiness than the bottomless emptiness of pain.
The cause of the disease itself is not so important, but finding it out allows you to decide on the method of treatment.
Continuation best aphorisms and quotes read on the pages:
Our food substances should be medicines, and our medicinal products must be food substances.
My mother served leftovers from dinner for thirty years.
It’s bad if the wife knows how to cook, but doesn’t want to; It’s even worse if she doesn’t know how, but wants to. Robert Frost
People who feed rather than eat are like cattle. - A. Brillat-Savarin
When a person eats little, he worries about his figure. Or he just can’t eat much! – François De La Rochefoucauld
Beer is another proof that the Lord loves us and wants us to be happy.
You need to put your soul into cooking. Eat with those who are dear to you. Then your heart, embodied in food, unites with the couples of love and turns dinner into a real holiday. - Carlo Petrini
Don't put off until dinner what you can eat at lunch. – Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin
The stomach of an enlightened person has best qualities a kind heart - sensitivity and gratitude. – Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin
After a good dinner you can forgive anyone, even your own brother. – Oscar Wilde
A spoon is good for lunch, and a glass before lunch. Konstantin Kushner
Better a boiled egg in times of peace than a roasted bull in times of war. – Lion Feuchtwanger
Tell me what you eat and I will tell you who you are. Anselm Brillat-Savarin
The Italian has only two thoughts in his head; the second is spaghetti. - Catherine Deneuve
A person lives not by what he eats, but by what he digests. This position applies equally to the mind as to the body.
No one ever saw the dinner itself. Calvin Trillin
If a gourmet constantly counts calories in his dishes, then he is like Casanova, not taking his eyes off his watch. – James Beard
Moderation is an ally of nature and a guardian of health. So when you drink, when you eat, when you move, and even when you love, practice moderation. – Abul-Faraj
Love and hunger rule the world. – Friedrich Schiller
Old people endure fasting very easily; in second place are adult people, more difficult are young people, and most difficult are children, and of these last - those who are distinguished by too much liveliness. – Hippocrates
We do not live in order to eat, but we eat in order to live.
The invention of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star. - A. Brillat-Savarin
The same dish is never the same. Alain Lobro
Better mustard after dinner than instead. Ryszard Podlewski
Excess food interferes with the subtlety of the mind. – Seneca
We need to eat and drink so much that our strength is restored and not suppressed. – Marcus Tulius Cicero
To truly lose weight, you just need to give up three things - breakfast, lunch and dinner. Frank Lloyd Wright
Between a good lunch and long life The only difference is that at dinner the sweets are served at the end. – Robert Louis Stevenson
Eating too much is harmful, but eating too little is boring. A. Karabchievsky
On the Continent you are treated to good dinners, in England you are treated to good dining manners. George Mikes
It seems to me that every husband prefers a good dish without music to one without a good dish. – Immanuel Kant
The best seasoning for food is hunger.
Never argue at dinner: the one who is hungrier always loses.
You need to eat only good food and little by little, the same with books and movies. - Krzysztof Zanussi
Everyone eats what they eat. – Ludwig Feuerbach
Don't put off until dinner what you can eat at lunch.
A good meal brings out the best in a man. - Jerome K. Jerome
A gentleman never eats. He only has breakfast, lunch and dinner. Cole Porter
At the end there was a banquet. The frog ate the fly, the frog already ate, the hedgehog ate the snake, the fox ate the hedgehog. Lunch went on in a warm, friendly atmosphere. Felix Krivin
I eat to live, not live to eat.
Drunkenness is the mother of all vices.
In case of major troubles, I deny myself everything except food and drink. - Oscar Wilde
Food that the body does not digest is eaten by the person who ate it. Therefore, eat in moderation.
While I don't necessarily think we should eat beef without mustard, I am quite convinced that there is a much more serious danger these days: the desire to eat mustard without the beef. Gilbert Keith Chesterton
There are far fewer good stomachs than good food. – Luc de Clapier Vauvenargues
After a good dinner, you can forgive anyone, even your relatives.
We do not live in order to eat, but in order not to know what to eat.
If you have money, then eat pilaf, if you don’t have money, then eat only pilaf. - Uzbek proverb
Better time undereating from time to time rather than constantly overeating.
Drinking wine is as harmful as taking poison.
- “Stay hungry. Stay reckless." And I always wished this for myself. And now that you are graduating and starting over, I wish this for you.
Self-sacrifice is a passion so all-consuming that in comparison even hunger and lust are trifles. She rushes her slave to destruction at the hour of the highest affirmation of his personality.
Adam was a man: he desired the apple from the tree of Eden not because it was an apple, but because it was forbidden.
Buy in your youth something that over the years will compensate you for the damage caused by old age. And, realizing that wisdom is the food of old age, act in your youth so that old age is not left without food.
If you have a nook to live in -
In our vile times - even a piece of bread,
If you are not a servant to anyone, not a master -
You are happy and truly high in spirit.
Life is boring without a moral goal, it is not worth living just to eat, the worker knows this - therefore, life requires a moral occupation.
Life is a source of joy: but in whom a spoiled stomach speaks, this father of sorrow, for him all sources are poisoned.
The American initiative is nothing more than a proposal to “burn the house down to cook scrambled eggs.” (About the creation of a missile defense system)
Will we refuse food only on the grounds that, when we are full, we lose our appetite? Can we say that a field is wasted if it remains fallow?
The bread that you store in your bins belongs to the hungry; the cloak lying in your chest belongs to a naked man; the gold that you buried in the ground belongs to the poor man.
Three things make the world tremble
(You won’t survive the fourth):
Suddenly a slave who became a master,
Glutton, drunken fool,
And he who is weak in flesh and spirit
Got involved with an evil, rude woman.
In four cases, neither approval nor condemnation of the matter should be expressed until it is over.
Firstly, about eating until it is digested in the stomach.
Secondly, about a pregnant woman until it is resolved.
Thirdly, about the brave man until he leaves the battlefield.
Fourthly, about the farmer until he reaps the harvest.
A wise man should not stop in a city that does not have five things: first, a just sovereign and a strict and authoritative ruler; secondly, running waters and rich lands; thirdly, scientists with practical knowledge and endowed with moderation; fourthly, skillful and compassionate healers; fifthly, generous benefactors.
People who are constantly chasing more and more wealth, never finding time to use it, look like starving people who cook everything, but do not sit down at the table.
When I see these tables covered with dishes, it seems to me that gout, dropsy, fever and many other diseases are hiding behind each of them, as if in ambush.
After a good dinner, you can forgive anyone, even your relatives.
When I have big troubles in my life, I deny myself literally everything except delicious food and good drinks.
Oscar Wilde
Great people have always been abstinent in food.
Honore de Balzac
The best seasoning for food is hunger.
We do not live in order to eat, but we eat in order to live.
I eat to live, not live to eat.
Old people endure fasting very easily; in second place are adult people, more difficult are young people, and most difficult are children, and of these last - those who are distinguished by too much liveliness.
Hippocrates
Don't put off until dinner what you can eat at lunch.
Not having dinner is a holy law,
Who values light sleep the most?The stomach of an enlightened person has the best qualities of a good heart - sensitivity and gratitude.
Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin
No one should exceed the limit in food or nutrition.
If a gourmet constantly counts calories in his dishes, then he is like Casanova, not taking his eyes off his watch.
James Beard
A person lives not by what he eats, but by what he digests. This position applies equally to the mind as to the body.
If you want to extend your life, shorten your meals.
Beer is another proof that the Lord loves us and wants us to be happy.
Since people learned to cook food, they eat twice as much as nature requires.
Benjamin Franklin
It is better to undereat occasionally than to overeat all the time.
Eating in abundance harms the body just as abundance of water harms crops.
If it were not for the power of the stomach, not a single bird would fall into the hunter’s snare, and the hunter himself would not set the snare.
Food that the body does not digest is eaten by the person who ate it. Therefore, eat in moderation.
Drunkenness is the mother of all vices.
Moderation is an ally of nature and a guardian of health. So when you drink, when you eat, when you move, and even when you love, practice moderation.
Abul Faraj
Our food substances must be a remedy, and our remedies must be a food substance.
The effects of dietary supplements are long-lasting, while the effects of medications are transient.
Hippocrates
Drinking wine is as harmful as taking poison.
Excess food interferes with the subtlety of the mind.
The only difference between a good dinner and a long life is that at dinner the sweets are served at the end.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Love and hunger rule the world.
Friedrich Schiller
There is no love more sincere than the love of food.
Will we refuse food only on the grounds that, when we are full, we lose our appetite? Can we say that a field is wasted if it remains fallow?
George Bernard Shaw
Everyone eats what they eat.
Ludwig Feuerbach
Abstinence in eating is born either out of concern for health, or inability to eat much.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
It seems to me that every husband prefers a good dish without music to one without a good dish.
Immanuel Kant
Belonging to some kind of dinner club, even to a literary club, inevitably ruins an aspiring writer. This fatal mistake was made by more than one talented young man, who, on his own initiative or on the advice of foolish friends, tried to “crawl” into the society of celebrities - he saved his stomach, but lost his reputation.
Herbert George Wells
We need to eat and drink so much that our strength is restored and not suppressed.
Marcus Tulius Cicero
We do not live in order to eat, but in order not to know what to eat.
When you get up from the table hungry, you are full; if you get up after having eaten, you have overeaten; If you get up after overeating, you are poisoned.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Cool Quotes and aphorisms about food and gluttony
N and day 5 of the diet, dreams of a sexual nature began: a large room... I’m lying in a bathtub... filled with borscht!
WITH alata from crab sticks... It’s good that it’s not made from sheep’s balls...
N and the culinary magazine says 12+ WHAT, WHAT IS THERE? NAKED CHICKEN?
N lack of food gives food for thought
TO what a table and what a chair.
N do you know how to lose weight? Drink a glass of water three days before meals.
WITH Listening to music while eating is an insult to both the cook and the violinist.
P looking for something that the body cannot digest, eats the one who ate it
IN Not a more standard figure from year to year...
IN It’s always like this: if I eat, it’s fun, if I don’t eat, it’s somehow boring...
WITH now we eat food genetic engineering, and then they will eat us.
U everyone has their own recipe for happiness... I have it written on the ceiling: tomorrow I’ll quit eating... Every morning, when I wake up, I see this inscription and think: it’s good that tomorrow, and not today
IN You won’t believe it, but today’s bread can be stored for six months - in your stomach.
N While at work, there was a note on the pie in the refrigerator: “Don’t eat me.” Now there is an empty plate with a note: “Pies will not boss me around!”
AND Of all the suicide weapons, the most popular are the knife and fork.
I I don’t eat after six. I have a fasting hour from 6 to 7!
N and for every yogurt with live bacteria there is a doctor with antibiotics.
ABOUT days they eat to live. Others are starving for the same purpose.
X A spoonful is good for lunch, and a glass before lunch.
H The appetite also comes when there is no food.
B the fast meal ends in a slow funeral procession.
I I usually don’t improvise, but trust my mother to cook the food. This old, proven recipe was inherited from my dad.
L It’s better to eat a lot, but often.
N To spite your enemies, eat dinner yourself.
T As soon as I took hold of the eggs, the oil immediately disappeared.
Alexander Lukashenko
E We need to eat and drink enough so that our strength is restored and not suppressed. (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
I replaced zucchini with zucchini.
ABOUT The trouble in Russia is not the food, but the time of day.
N and your favorite food usually lacks health.
P The horns mostly come out sideways.
X good things cannot be called bad.
E If you are afraid of gaining weight, drink 100 g of cognac before meals. Cognac eases fear.
A Ppetite - unlike hunger, it is not satisfied.
H The human body grows up to 25 years. Only neither the stomach nor the ass know about this.
M Elijah, let's agree: I say it's very tasty, but you never cook it again.
ABOUT, dissolve me at least a little coffee!...
Vladimir Vishnevsky
X There are far fewer empty stomachs than good food.
TO urica is a creature that is eaten either before its birth or after its death.
WITH The hottest topic of the day: pies.
AND You need to get up from the table with a heavy feeling of slight hunger.
D Ieta is a scientifically developed program for the fight between the brain and the stomach, which is obviously doomed to failure.
L love comes and goes, but you always want to eat
AND"cheese-", and "gum-", that's it - fatburger!
T It feels like I have an alarm clock in my head, set for 11:00 p.m., with a reminder: “Don’t forget to eat at night!”
Z Eat breakfast yourself, share lunch with a friend, and dinner with a friend.
P omni! Opening the refrigerator after 18.00. turns the princess into a PUMPKIN!
ABOUT bottom calorie - one cal. A thousand calories is one cal.
R The secret of olives and olives is hidden: olives have an olive color, but black olives do not.
ABOUT Bzhora digs his own grave with his teeth.
N and nothing dulls hunger like thirst.
I I want a sandwich. But no, it seemed... I WANT FIVE SANDWICHES
I I WANT TO EAT!!! Because I wanted to eat half an hour ago.
G nuts are food for others to think about your personal qualities!
IN All mushrooms are edible, but some are only eaten once in a lifetime.
