Fran Lebowitz Quotes About Food
Fran Lebowitz is an American author best known for sardonic social commentary on American life through her New York sensibilities. Some reviewers have called her a modern day Dorothy Parker.
“My favorite animal is steak.”
“Inhabitants of underdeveloped nations and victims of natural disasters are the only people who have ever been happy to see soybeans.”
“People have been cooking and eating for thousands of years, so if you are the very first to have thought of adding fresh lime juice to scalloped potatoes try to understand that there must be a reason for this.”
“Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he’s buying.”
“Food is an important part of a balanced diet.”
“Large, naked raw carrots are acceptable as food only to those who lie in hutches eagerly awaiting Easter.”
“While it is undeniably true that people love a surprise, it is equally true that they are seldom pleased to suddenly and without warning happen upon a series of prunes in what they took to be a normal loin of pork.”
“Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.”
“Bread that must be sliced with an axe is bread that is too nourishing.”
“Breakfast cereals that come in the same colors as polyester leisure suits make oversleeping a virtue.”
