English Quote by Julie Powell

“We show our surprise at this by speaking of something called the “French paradox,” for how could a people who eat such demonstrably toxic…

— Michael Pollan

No matter what their background, the southern French are fascinated by food.

— Peter Mayle

The French would eat anything that couldn't outrun them.

— Lisa Alther

“The French: a people who have used their sophisticated culture and beautiful language to bequeath to the world the sliced potato.”

— Bauvard

The French are sawed-off sissies who eat snails and slugs and cheese that smells like people's feet. Utter cowards who force their own children…

— P. J. O'Rourke

France eats more conciously, more intelligently, than any other nation.

— M. F. K. Fisher

“The irony of acquiring a foreign tongue is that I have amassed just enough cheap, serviceable words to fuel my desires and never, never…

— Monique Truong

“The French approach to food is characteristic; they bring to their consideration of the table the same appreciation, respect, intelligence and lively interest that…

— Alice B. Toklas

“It's finally happened; scientists claim to have discovered the very first person in history who doesn't like french fries. Just imagine the implications!”

— Graham Parke

The real reason French women don't get fat is not genetic, but cultural, and if the French subjected themselves to the American extremes of…

— Mireille Guiliano

The French have got taste.

— Vivienne Westwood

I thought English is a strange language. Now I think French is even more strange. In France, their fish is poisson, their bread is…

— Xiaolu Guo