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"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

Food, Gold, Song, World

"Peanut butter is a poor man's marmalade."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Food, Humor, Truth, Life, Economy

"We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun."

George Orwell, British Author

Food, Machine, May

"In corn, I think I've found the key to the American food chain. If you look at a fast-food meal, a McDonald's meal, virtually all the carbon in it - and what we eat is mostly carbon - comes from corn."

Michael Pollan, American Educator

Food, Key

"I'm not sure why it is, but I love food more than just about anything else."

Sylvia Plath, American Poet

Food, Passion, Happiness, Desire

"The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small."

Woody Allen, American Director

Food,

"New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin."

Mark Twain, American Author

Food, Sin, Crime, Enjoyment

"No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

Food, Being, Chance, Company

"Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

Food, Conversation, Wit

"Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is."

P. J. O'Rourke, American Comedian

Food, Humor, Irony, Reality

Explore more quotes by Calvin Trillin

"The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they're trying to keep out."

Food, People, Trying

"When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere."

Food, Policy, Kitchen, Preparation

"I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still."

Humor, Feet

"The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt."

Life, Trade

"I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally."

Answers,

"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."

Family, Mother, Nothing, Remarkable

"As far as I'm concerned, "whom" is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler."

Humor, Sound, Word

"The question about those aromatic advertisements that perfume companies are having stitched into magazines these days is this: under the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment, is smelling up the place a constitutionally protected form of expression?"

Expression, First, Question

"Health food makes me sick."

Food, Health