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Eat Up: Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want QUOTES

Eat Up: Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want QUOTES

1 " No doubt some people, probably guys, will be thrown off balance by your forthrightness. Who cares. Eat their leftovers. If they carry on judging you, eat them, too. "

― Ruby Tandoh , Eat Up: Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want

2 " When we feed each other, we give a bit of ourselves to form the fabric of someone else. "

― Ruby Tandoh , Eat Up: Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want

3 " All we can really do is to take the revolution a meal at a time. Be the first woman in the office to take a biscuit from the communal tin; be the person brave enough to take the last one, too. In the company of people you feel comfortable with and safe around, eat your heart out. Practise ordering greedily on dates. Be the only person at the table to get a dessert. When it arrives, don't share it. Try out speaking your mind when you're alone -- talk to yourself in the mirror, saying things like 'I would like you to go down on me, and I want the last slice of the strudel.' No doubt some people, probably guys, will be thrown off balance by your forthrightness. Who cares. Eat their leftovers. If they carry on judging you, eat them, too. "

― Ruby Tandoh , Eat Up: Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want

4 " The people may be different, the flavours unusual or the places far off, but the message- that food informs who we are, and how we love – stays true. "

― Ruby Tandoh , Eat Up: Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want

5 " the enjoyment we get from our food is intimately connected to the nutritional power of that food. "

― Ruby Tandoh , Eat Up: Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want

6 " The way you feel about food sits hand in hand with the way you feel about yourself, and if you eat happily and wholeheartedly, food will make you strong. I "

― Ruby Tandoh , Eat Up: Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want

7 " You can sit in front of the campfire with toasted marshmallow melted into your beard because, goddammit, life goes on. "

― Ruby Tandoh , Eat Up: Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want

8 " There's a temptation to hole yourself up in the kitchen as though in some kind of cocoon when the bad times hit. "

― Ruby Tandoh , Eat Up: Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want