101 Metaphors for foods

Though a cannibal feast was a rare orgie, putrid food was a common dainty.

I am sure, ma'am, you will agree with me that the plainest food is the best for everybody.

"The food is tinder the special supervision of a doctor."

Hence, great things are expected of him; his food must be roots and fruit, his clothing of bark fibres; he must spend his time in reading the Vedas; he is to practise austerities by exposing himself to heat and cold; he is to beg food but once a day; he must be careful not to destroy the life of the smallest insect; he must not taste intoxicating liquors.

Their common food is rice, which they eat frequently with a broth made of meat or fish, like that used by the Arabs, and which they pour upon the rice.

'P.R.' Foods are Everyday Foods.

Their principal food is the meat of the shellfish from which they extract pearls, and their shores abound with such.

All other foods are, as it were, privates in Caesar's army.

There have been families who have been so reduced that the only food they have had has been a porridge made of Indian meal.

"] Food at the front is another matter, and Mr. Punch is glad to print the tribute of one of his war-poets to the "Cookers": The Company Cook is no great fighter,

It is distressing, but as usual trials are forgotten when we camp, and good food is our lot.

And by the table-altar they sat down To eat their Eucharist, God feeding them: Their food was Love, made visible in Form Incarnate Love in food.

The chief food of the people is the national Moorish dish of cuscasou, a fine grained paste, cooked by steam, with melted fat, oil, or other liquids poured upon the dish, and sometimes garnished with pieces of fowl and other meat.

Some scholars hold that this coarse food was the manna of the Biblical accounts.

This awakening and gratification of the æsthetic sense seems to be the first advance from a condition of mere animal existence, in which food, shelter, and comfort are the only considerations, to tastes and desires that are higher and, consequently, more impersonal.

Badly cooked and ill-assorted foods are often the cause of serious disorders.

Their only food is a small sort of fish, which they get by making weirs of stone across little coves or branches of the sea; every tide bringing in the small fish, the there leaving them for a prey to these people, who constantly attend there to search for them at low water.

The favourite food of Bruce's Fennec was dates or any sweet fruit; but it was also very fond of eggs; when hungry it would eat bread, especially with honey or sugar.

The sole food of the distressed class was Indian-meal, which had paid freight and storage in England, and had been obtained in exchange for English manufactures.

Its natural food are small crabs and shell-fish.

The purest food is fruit, next the cereals, then the vegetables.

Hence it may be said that a food deficient in these elements is a particularly poor food.

The food, the flowers, and the land for the use of Folks, and the food, the plants, and the water for the use of fishes, are just what the nature of each requires.

The only food was a scanty supply of black bread, and occasionally a few decayed olives, or sheep which had died from some disorder.

The food is gonethe rifle broken.

101 Metaphors for  foods