A Quote by Fay Weldon

Food is the supremest of pleasures.

Fay Weldon

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Food Pleasures

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Fay Weldon
English - Writer
Born: September 22, 1931

The pleasure of eating should be an extensive pleasure, not that of the mere gourmet. People who know the garden in which their vegetables have grown and know that the garden is healthy will remember the beauty of the growing plants, perhaps in the dewy first light of morning when gardens are at their best. Such a memory involves itself with the food and is one of the pleasures of eating. (pg. 326, The Pleasures of Eating)

Wendell Berry

We should enjoy food and have fun. It is one of the simplest and nicest pleasures in life.

Julia Child

I'm a fast foodie - like, a foodie, but with food courts. I'd love to go with all my friends to a food court that's also a buffet - with unlimited orange chicken from Panda Express, curly fries from Arby's, Hawaiian pizza from Sbarro, and Coke Zero. I'm a simple man with simple pleasures.

Tyler Oakley

Food is one of life's really great pleasures. My 20th birthday party was all about booze, my 30th birthday was about drugs, and now I realise that my 40s are about food. It's something you appreciate more and more as you get older.

Alex James

The exercise of an extraordinary gift is the supremest pleasure in life.

Mark Twain

Love is its own rescue; for we, at our supremest, are but its trembling emblems.

Emily Dickinson

Food shouldn't do you any harm, obviously you don't want a bad diet, but it should be one of life's great pleasures.

Prue Leith

Food is a great literary theme. Food in eternity, food and sex, food and lust. Food is a part of the whole of life. Food is not separate.

Jim Harrison

I have always loved food. I began cooking for my family as a young girl, and to this day, it's one of my greatest pleasures in life.

Suzanne Somers

No friendship has done its work until it reaches the supremest satisfaction of spiritual communion.

Hugh Black

Man has the supreme knack of deceiving himself; the Englishman is supremest among men.

Mahatma Gandhi

And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.

Honore de Balzac

There is a line that I always loved from Lucretius. He said, "The sublime is the art of exchanging easier for more difficult pleasures." The presumption of that formulation is that the more difficult pleasures are actually better than the easier pleasures. That is why one makes the exchange.

Andrew Solomon

You do not need to be an expert, or even particularly interested in wine, in order to enjoy drinking it. But tasting is not the same as drinking. Drinking pleases, mellows, loosens the tongue and inhibitions; drinking wine with food is healthy and natural; drinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life's most civilized pleasures.

Michael Broadbent

Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing. If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after. If we breathe the scent of goodly grass, the fragrance of spices, the aroma of good fruits, we pronounce a blessing over the pleasure. The same applies to pleasures of the sight. And the same applies to pleasures of the ear.