#food

She cried. She moaned. She ate heaps of junk food. She wished her perfect partner would soon drop out of the sky so she could get on with her life. ↗

— Kym Petrie

#food

Tugs was surprised to find that the cake was actually pretty dry and not as good as the cakes her own mother made. It was a revelation. Tugs had assumed that tastier food came out of fancier houses. ↗

— Anne Ylvisaker

#middle-grade #thoughtful #food

shrimp and green peppers are shriveling in my refrigerator ↗

— Megan Boyle

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Poverty is when there is no food and a child is forced to fill its stomach with water for the night. ↗

— Matsime Simon Mohapi

#debts #depths-of-poverty #indecent-life #food

The rocking of the deck beneath his feet made his stomach heave, and the wretched food tasted even worse when retched back up. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#food

What they discovered was that not only fish, but spiders and many insects can taste their food by the structures that are most likely to first come in contact with the food. And this in many invertebrate species turns out to be the feet. ↗

— Karen Shanor

#food

[If you hear a] story about how eating sausage leads to anal cancer, you will be skeptical, because it has never happened to anyone you know, and sausage, after all, is delicious. ↗

— David McRaney

#food #sausage #food

The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight... [Breadmaking is] one of those almost hypnotic businesses, like a dance from some ancient ceremony. It leaves you filled with one of the world's sweetest smells... there is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel. that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread. ↗

— M.F.K. Fisher

#food #art

Percy: I thought I’d lost my mom forever, and I was stuck on a hill in a thunderstorm fighting this huge bull dude while Grover was passed out wailing. “Food!” It was terrifying, man. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#percy-jackson #food

Somebody dies and people eat your food. Funny how that works. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

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