The Man Who Ate Everything Quotes

“Whenever I travel to the South, the first thing I do is visit the best barbecue place between the airport and my hotel. An hour or two later I visit the best barbecue place between my hotel and dinner.”
― Jeffrey Steingarten, The Man Who Ate Everything

“But the goal of the arts, culinary or otherwise, is not to increase our comfort. That is the goal of an easy chair.”
― Jeffrey Steingarten, The Man Who Ate Everything

“Subsistence, I am happy to report, is not much of a problem for me these days either. I could probably subsist for a decade or more on the food energy I have thriftily wrapped around various parts of my body.”
― Jeffrey Steingarten, The Man Who Ate Everything: And Other Gastronomic Feats, Disputes, and Pleasurable Pursuits

“We passionate eaters elevate, we ennoble the bestial impulse to feed into a sublime activity, into an art, into the art of eating. And some of us create what might even be called literature while we're at it. We transmute what animals do into what the angels would do if angels ate food, which I don't think they do, at least not in their official capacity. This is what Freud calls sublimation, the highest form of impulse control. Yes, Doctor, I plead guilty to an obsession with beauty, edible or otherwise. I am guilty as charged!”
― Jeffrey Steingarten, The Man Who Ate Everything

“Then, one snowy afternoon, I found myself alone in a room with four pounds of pork, an equal amount of pure white pig’s fat, and a few hours to spare.”
― Jeffrey Steingarten, The Man Who Ate Everything: And Other Gastronomic Feats, Disputes, and Pleasurable Pursuits

“Kimchi. After repeatedly sampling ten of the sixty varieties of kimchi, the national pickle of Korea, kimchi has become my national pickle, too.”
― Jeffrey Steingarten, The Man Who Ate Everything: And Other Gastronomic Feats, Disputes, and Pleasurable Pursuits

“The hyperactivity syndrome supposedly caused by white sugar has never, ever, been verified—and not for lack of trying. In the famous New Haven study, it was the presence of the parents, not the presence of white sugar, that was causing the problem; most of the kids calmed down when their parents left the room.*”
― Jeffrey Steingarten, The Man Who Ate Everything: And Other Gastronomic Feats, Disputes, and Pleasurable Pursuits

“nothing in my grandmothers’ repertory had prepared me for that first wondrous mouthful of fruitcake at the house of a friend from college. It was a moist, alcoholic plum pudding, full of dark, saturated medieval tastes and colors—currants, dates, and black raisins, aromatic orange peel, mace and allspice and nutmeg, brandy and molasses—aged for a year and then set aflame at the very last minute, carefully spooned out like the treasure it was, and topped with an astonishing ivory sauce made only of butter, sugar, brandy, and nutmeg. They called it, simply, hard sauce. No”
― Jeffrey Steingarten, The Man Who Ate Everything: And Other Gastronomic Feats, Disputes, and Pleasurable Pursuits

“In Valencia, when you catch snails for your paella, you feed them rosemary for a few days, both to purge them and to give them flavor.”
― Jeffrey Steingarten, The Man Who Ate Everything

“Bad bread wrecks my outlook on life.”
― Jeffrey Steingarten, The Man Who Ate Everything

“Vegetarianism is always the product of scarcity, of religion, or of ideology, including nutritional fads and fashions.”
― Jeffrey Steingarten, The Man Who Ate Everything: And Other Gastronomic Feats, Disputes, and Pleasurable Pursuits