Food

“They’re eating ice creams!”

“من غذای خود را که قدری از نان شب مانده و پنیر و یا مختصری از غذای شب گذشته بود، در مغازه‌ی سیگارفروشی نزدیک مدرسه می‌خوردم.”

“Does eating African rice with a European spoon make the rice also European?”

““The art of preserving the health of a soldier consists of attending to the following particulars: I. DRESS. II. DIET. III. CLEANLINESS. IV. ENCAMPMENTS. And V. EXERCISE.””

“If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.”

“I just want to make a tray of good tofu. If people want something else, they should go to the restaurants and shops.”

“I don’t make anything besides tofu.”

“I defy you to agitate any fellow with a full stomach.”

“One of the first businesses I launched was when I asked my mother to make me balela (a traditional chickpea soup), and I sold it to my friends in the street.”

“Taoism concentrates on clear and serene cultivation while medicine treats with herbs, diet, acupuncture, and moxibustion.”

“I would just like my children to be able to eat fish when they grow up.”

“Climate, seasons, plenty, scarcity, distance, will shake hands, and out of the commingling will come enough for all.”

“The poet-monks’ poetry differs from literati poetry exactly for its breath of vegetables and bamboo shoots.”

“At Starbucks, coffee comes first.”

“All wholesome food is caught without a net or a trap.”

“Hitherto I had never known what hunger really meant.”