- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Eating Quotes
On food habits, weekend routines, and never feeling quite full.
These quotes cover eating in its most ordinary forms - weekend restaurant hopping, an admitted chocolate habit, and simply not wanting to be interrupted at the table. See also Food quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
My obsession with eating out partly comes from having spent 10 long years at English boarding schools in the 1980s, where food was pretty low on the list.
- Environmental
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started researching the eco effects of eating meat, I'd assumed, for no good reason, that environmental irresponsibility would correspond to both animal size and deliciousness: Eating cows would be worst, eating pigs would be a bit less bad, and eating chickens would be basically harmless.
- Healthy
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- Nov 07, 2020
My body really reacts well to not eating a lot of wheat or dairy and staying on healthy foods.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we are going to change our diets, we first have to relearn the art of eating, which is a question of psychology as much as nutrition. We have to find a way to want to eat what's good for us.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the rudest things you can do, food-wise, is to stare at someone in the act of eating. It draws attention to the unseemly fact that eating is a bodily function - like animals, we are trapped by our hungers, but we do our best to disguise them with such civilized props as menus and forks.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
When someone watches us eating, we feel exposed. We might also harbor a suspicion that the person staring wants to steal food from our plate. The taboo, in any case, is long-standing.
- Leaf
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes the buzz of reading about others eating comes from the voyeuristic thrill of seeing how the other half lives: the gold leaf and truffles or - in the case of Trimalchio's feast in Petronius' 'Satyricon' - the dormice and honey.
- Restaurant
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- Nov 07, 2020
Restaurant critics all struggle with the difficulty of writing about eating without resorting to the word 'delicious' and its synonyms.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I think about filming 'Lady Bird,' I think about, dancing, eating, and laughing, which are three of my favorite things, so it's great.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The English have a special sense of humour. This I immediately experienced in the dressing room. As I walked with two plates while eating, suddenly a team-mate asked me, 'Basti, what time is it?' hoping I would automatically turn my hand to look at my watch. That's quite entertaining.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not really a fan of healthy food - I love eating! But, of course, I do work out.
- Nov 07, 2020
I was eating bad stuff. Lots of sugar and carbs, junk food all the time. It makes you very irritated.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
If it was up to Rob we would be eating Nandos and salad cream, morning, noon and night!
- Meat
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was one day where I just stopped eating meat, but then the transition to get rid of the dairy and eggs took 12 years.
- Dietary
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- Nov 07, 2020