Food Quotes by Bill Bryson

“It is a challenge to believe that there was ever a time that airline food was exciting, when stewardesses were happy to…

— Bill Bryson

I sometimes think I cannot write another passage about a disappointing meal ever again, because I've done it so many times.

— Bill Bryson

“They were most peculiar. And they eat pizza pie.” “For breakfast?” “No, for lunch and dinner. But it’s not a pie at…

— Bill Bryson

The food is excellent. The beer is cold. The sun nearly always shines. There is coffee on every corner. Life doesn’t get…

— Bill Bryson

If a potato can produce vitamin C, why can't we? Within the animal kingdom only humans and guinea pigs are unable to…

— Bill Bryson

“Part of the reason people could eat so well was that many foods that we now think of as delicacies were plenteous…

— Bill Bryson

“Vitamin B proved to be not one vitamin but several, which is why we have B1, B2, and so on. To add…

— Bill Bryson

Clearly, some time ago makers and consumers of American junk food passed jointly through some kind of sensibility barrier in the endless…

— Bill Bryson

“As a rule, you knew it was time to eat when you could hear potatoes exploding in the oven. Happily, all this…

— Bill Bryson

And I find chopsticks frankly distressing. Am I alone in thinking it odd that a people ingenious enough to invent paper, gunpowder,…

— Bill Bryson

“The dining table was a plain board called by that name. It was hung on the wall when not in use, and…

— Bill Bryson

“Incidentally, the long-held idea that spices were used to mask rotting food doesn't stand up to much scrutiny. The only people who…

— Bill Bryson

“Curiously, among the few survivors from this culinary onslaught is one that is most difficult to understand: the fish knife. Though it…

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“By the 1920s if you wanted to work behind a lunch counter you needed to know that 'Noah's boy' was a slice…

— Bill Bryson

“Two of the casters contained salt and pepper, but what went into the third caster is unknown. It is generally presumed to…

— Bill Bryson

“It’s a bit burned,” my mother would say apologetically at every meal, presenting you with a piece of meat that looked like…

— Bill Bryson

“Of all the minerals the most vital in dietary terms is sodium, which we mostly consume in the form of sodium chloride…

— Bill Bryson

“Is there anything, apart from a really good chocolate cream pie and receiving a large unexpected cheque in the post, to beat…

— Bill Bryson

“I don't wish to denigrate a sport that is enjoyed by millions, some of them awake and facing the right way, but…

— Bill Bryson

“Sulphuric acid was added to vinegar for extra sharpness, chalk to milk, turpentine to gin. Arsenite of copper was used to make…

— Bill Bryson

“Because bread was so important, the laws governing its purity were strict and the punishment severe. A baker who cheated his customers…

— Bill Bryson

“One consequential change is that people used to get most of their calories at breakfast and midday, with only the evening top-up…

— Bill Bryson