“He’s like an imbecile with a pepper shaker; a little makes his food taste good, therefore a lot will make it wonderful.”

“Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.”

Robert Redford (1936) actor and film director from the United States

“Bradshaw sighed and swallowed, feeling the volatile coldness in his throat and trying to remember what tequila tasted like. Pepper and turpentine, as far as he could recall.”

Tim Powers book Expiration Date

“The food of the true revolutionary is the red pepper, And he who cannot endure red peppers is also unable to fight.”

Mao Zedong (1893–1976) Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China

“It's good when food tastes good, it's kind of like proof you're alive.”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

“A child will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends; and when the family dines alone, the fore or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish, and seasoned with a little pepper or salt will be very good boiled on the fourth day, especially in winter.”

Jonathan Swift book A Modest Proposal

“Bad taste makes more millionaires than good taste.”

Charles Bukowski book Hollywood

“On Swinburne - He invited me to eat; the service was silver and gold, but no food therein save pepper and salt.”

Sidney Lanier (1842–1881) American musician, poet

“Is that food?.. that looks like food… I think I'll taste it.”

Darby Conley (1970) American cartoonist

“My friends and relations … urged … that the quantity [of food] I took was too little for one so advanced in years; against this, I urged that nature was content with little, and that with this small quantity, I had preserved myself for many years in health and activity, that I believed as a man advanced in years, his stomach grew weaker, and therefore the tendency should be to lessen the amount of food rather than to increase. I further reminded them of the two proverbs, which say; he who has a mind to eat a great deal, must eat but little; eating little makes life long, and, living long, he must eat much; and the other proverb was: that, what we leave after making a hearty meal, does us more good than what we have eaten.”

Luigi Cornaro (1484–1566) Italian philosopher