Quotes about Food and Eating

We all like and have to eat. So, I thought of sharing some food and cooking related quotes for those of us foodies out there. Here are some nice and entertaining quotes and sayings about food and eating. Enjoy.

To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a “home” might be added the modern supplement that woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation. -Emily Post

“Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art. It requires instinct and taste rather than exact measurements.”
– Chef Marcel Boulestin

A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe. -Thomas Keller

“I have long believed that good food, good eating is all about risk. Whether we’re talking about unpasteurized Stilton, raw oysters or working for organized crime ‘associates,’ food, for me, has always been an adventure.” – Anthony Bourdain

There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Remember that a very good sardine is always preferable to a not that good lobster.” – Ferran Adria

What is stronger than a mother’s love? The smell of spring onions on your girl’s breath. -John R. Kemble

“I’ll bet what motivated the British to colonize so much of the world is that they were just looking for a decent meal.” – Martha Harrison

I eat so poorly during the stressful part of my day I need to have a vegetable orgy for dinner just to make up for it. -Carrie Latet

“Salt is born of the purest of parents: the sun and the sea.”- Pythagoras

Bread deals with living things, with giving life, with growth, with the seed, the grain that nurtures. It is not coincidence that we say bread is the staff of life. -Lionel Poilane

Cooking-with-Le-Creuset“In Mexico we have a word for sushi: bait.” – Jose Simon

Most of the food allergies die under garlic and onion. -Martin H. Fischer

“There is a communication of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine is drunk. And that is my answer when people ask me: Why do you write about hunger, and not wars or love.” – MFK Fisher

“Great restaurants are, of course, nothing but mouth-brothels. There is no point in going to them if one intends to keep one’s belt buckled.” – Frederic Raphael

It’s so beautifully arranged on the plate – you know someone’s fingers have been all over it. -Julia Child

As the days grow short, some faces grow long. But not mine. Every autumn, when the wind turns cold and darkness comes early, I am suddenly happy. It’s time to start making soup again. -Leslie Newman

“The tradition of Italian cooking is that of the matriarch. This is the cooking of grandma. She didn’t waste time thinking too much about the celery. She got the best celery she could and then she dealt with it.” – Mario Batali

“I prefer to regard a dessert as I would imagine the perfect woman: subtle, a little bittersweet, not blowsy and extrovert. Delicately made up, not highly rouged. Holding back, not exposing everything and, of course, with a flavor that lasts.” – Graham Kerr

Bread and butter, devoid of charm in the drawing-room, is ambrosia eating under a tree. -Elizabeth Russell

“A man taking basil from a woman will love her always.” – Sir Thomas Moore

“Great food is like great sex. The more you have the more you want.”- Gael Greene

“To be tempted and indulged by the city’s most brilliant chefs. It’s the dream of every one of us in love with food.” – Gael Greene

My soul is dark with stormy riot,
Directly traceable to diet. -Samuel Hoffenstein

“Cooking is like love, it should be entered into with abandon or not at all.” – Harriet Van Horne

I’m trying to eat better. And, I do feel wise after drinking tea. After eating vegetables, I just feel hungry. -Carrie Latet

“A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you have that basis, that’s when cuisine is truly exciting.” – Charlie Trotter

To give life to beauty, the painter uses a whole range of colours, musicians of sounds, the cook of tastes — and it is indeed remarkable that there are seven colours, seven musical notes and seven tastes.” – Lucien Tendret

A three-year-old gave this reaction to her Christmas dinner: “I don’t like the turkey, but I like the bread he ate.” -Author Unknown

“There are many miracles in the world to be celebrated and, for me, garlic is the most deserving.”
– Leo Buscaglia

“When you wake up in the morning, Pooh,’ said Piglet at last, ‘what’s the first thing you say to yourself?’ ‘What’s for breakfast?’ said Pooh. ‘What do you say, Piglet?’ ‘I say, I wonder what’s going to happen exciting today?’ said Piglet. Pooh nodded thoughtfully. ‘It’s the same thing,’ he said.” – A. A. Milne

“Of all the items on the menu, soup is that which exacts the most delicate perfection and the strictest attention.” – Escoffier

Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon. -Doug Larson

“There is no love sincerer than the love of food.” – George Bernard Shaw

“There is nothing like a plate or a bowl of hot soup, it’s wisp of aromatic steam making the nostrils quiver with anticipation, to dispel the depressing effects of a grueling day at the office or the shop, rain or snow in the streets, or bad news in the papers.” – Louis P. De Gouy,

“New York is the greatest city in the world for lunch… That’s the gregarious time. And when that first martini hits the liver like a silver bullet, there is a sigh of contentment that can be heard in Dubuque.”
– William Emerson Jr.

“It’s bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children’s health than the pediatrician.”
– Meryl Streep

“You sit down at Katz’s and you eat the big bowl of pickles and you’re eating the pastrami sandwich, and halfway through you say to yourself, I should really wrap this up and save it for tomorrow. But the sandwich is calling you: Remember the taste you just had. So fatty. It’s what you want. It’s what you are! I’ve never gotten home from Katz’s with a doggie bag in my hand. A pastrami sandwich at Katz’s is what’s bad and good about food. It’s the sacred and the profane.” – Mario Batali

“Food without wine is a corpse; wine without food is a ghost; united and well mitched they are as body and soul, living partners.” – Andre Simon

“Life is too short for self-hatred and celery sticks.” – Marilyn Wann

“For the first time I know what it is to eat. I have gained four pounds. I get frantically hungry, and the food I eat gives me a lingering pleasure. I never ate before in this deep carnal way… I want to bite into life and to be torn by it.”- Anaïs Nin

“As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy, and to make plans.” – Ernest Hemingway

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Sayings About Cooking: Food Quotes and Proverbs

We all have one thing in common, no matter where we live, what language we speak or what we believe in, we all have to eat food to survive. Some of us can be quite foodies and love making food or going out to eat. Here are some famous quotes about cooking and food that you will enjoy.

Even were a cook to cook a fly,
he would keep the breast for himself.
Polish Proverb

“The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for the steak to cook.”
― Julia Child

I feel a recipe is only a theme, which an intelligent cook can play each time with a variation.
Madam Benoit

Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie. -Jim Davis

“One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.”
– Luciano Pavarotti

A hungry stomach seldom scorns plain food.
Horace

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity. -Voltaire

“Eggs Benedict is genius. It’s eggs covered in eggs. I mean, come on, that person should be the president.”
– Wylie Dufresne

The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of mankind than the discovery of a star.
Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

“Desserts are like mistresses. They are bad for you. So if you are having one,
you might as well have two.”
– Chef Alain Ducasse

Cookery has become a noble art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.
Robert Burton

Fervet olla, vivit amicitia: While the pot boils, friendship endures. (Meaning the man who gives good dinners has plenty of friends).
Latin Proverb

There is a lot more juice in grapefruit than meets the eye. -Unknown

“I’ve long said that if I were about to be executed and were given a choice of my last meal, it would be bacon and eggs. There are few sights that appeal to me more than the streaks of lean and fat in a good side of bacon, or the lovely round of pinkish meat framed in delicate white fat that is Canadian bacon. Nothing is quite as intoxicating as the smell of bacon frying in the morning, save perhaps the smell of coffee brewing.” – James Beard

A good meal makes a man feel more charitable toward the world than any sermon. -Arthur Pendenys

High-tech tomatoes. Mysterious milk. Supersquash. Are we supposed to eat this stuff? Or is it going to eat us? -Annita Manning

a beautiful bowl of soup“Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art. It requires instinct
and taste rather than exact measurements.”- Marcel Boulestin

Hunger finds no fault with the cooking. -Proverb

Those who forget the pasta are condemned to reheat it. -Unknown

“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” – Virginia Woolf

Man is what he eats.-German Proverb

I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o’clock in the morning. -John Barrymore

“In my experience of vegan food it tends to be a symphony of beige.”- Jay Rayner

Fish, to taste right, must swim three times — in water, in butter and in wine. -Polish Proverb

Shipping is a terrible thing to do to vegetables. They probably get jet-lagged, just like people. -Elizabeth Berry

“Vegetarians claim to be immune from most diseases but they have been known to die from time to time.”
– George Bernard Shaw

Savory seasonings stimulate the appetite. -Latin Proverb

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut. -Channing Pollock

“All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.”- John Gunther

Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all. -Harriet Van Horne

Red meat is not bad for you. Now blue-green meat, that’s bad for you! -Tommy Smothers

“Plain fresh bread, its crust shatteringly crisp. Sweet cold butter. There is magic in the way they come together in your mouth to make a single perfect bite.- Ruth Reichl

Kissing don’t last: cookery do. -George Meredith

Chemicals, n: Noxious substances from which modern foods are made. -Unknown

“Truffle isn’t exactly aphrodisiac but under certain circumstances it tends to make women more tender and men more likable” – J.A. Brillat-Savarin

A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger’s end. -Walter Savage Landor

“The most learned men have been questioned as to the nature of this tuber, and after two thousand years of argument and discussion their answer is the same as it was on the first day: we do not know. The truffles themselves have been interrogated, and have answered simply: eat us and praise the Lord.” – Alexandre Dumas

Strange to see how a good dinner and
feasting reconciles everybody. -Samuel Pepys

It would be nice if the Food and Drug Administration stopped issuing warnings about toxic substances and just gave me the names of one or two things still safe to eat. -Robert Fuoss

“Life is so brief that we should not glance either too far backwards or forwards…therefore study how to fix our happiness in our glass and in our plate.” – Grimod de la Reynière

Hunger is the best sauce in the world. -Cervantes

As a child my family’s menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it. -Buddy Hackett

“Scallops are expensive, so they should be treated with some class. But then, I suppose that every creature that gives his life for our table should be treated with class.” – Jeff Smith, The Frugal Gourmet

Welcome to the Church of the Holy Cabbage. Lettuce pray. -Author Unknown

Author: This is guest post from Pamela Morris who is foodie who loves to eat and writes for Best Cookware. She shares her cookware reviews, cookware ratings and recipes and more on the cookware consumer guide site.

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