The Routledge Book of World Proverbs
A bad herring makes a good kipper. (German)
Bad food is always served too hot. (Korean)
Better a salt herring on your own table, than a fresh pike on another man’s. (Danish)
Between the hand and the lip the morsel may slip. (Portuguese)
Bread is bread and wine is wine. (Mexican)
Cheese and bread make the cheeks red. (German)
Cheese from the ewe, milk from the goat, butter from the cow. (Spanish)
Chickens and children are always scratching for food. (Spanish)
Death is in the pot. (Dutch)
Everyone bastes the fat hog, while the lean one burns. (German)
Food is a good workhorse. (Irish)
For wolf’s flesh, dog sauce. (French)
Fresh pork and new wine kill a man before his time. (English)
God sends us meat, but the Devil sends cooks. (Roman)
He who would relish his food must not see it cooked. (Italian)
It’s easy enough to find food, but hard to eat it in peace. (Hausan)
Meats fattens, wine strengthens, bread sustains. (Spanish)
More die by food than famine. (Roman)
More people are slain by supper than by the sword. (Danish)
New dishes beget new appetites. (Danish)
No popular food is delicious. (Japanese)
Of wine the middle, of oil the top, and of honey the bottom is best. (English)
Oil is best at the beginning, honey at the end, and wine in the middle. (Dutch)
One does not like hot, the other does not like cold; make it tepid so that all agree. (Madagascan)
Salt and bread make the cheeks red. (Dutch)
The best food is that which makes the belly full. (Egyptian)
The pot cooks but the plate is praised. (Yiddish)
The stomach that is rarely hungry despises common fare. (Roman)
The table kills more than wars. (Spanish)
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