Each of the quotes listed below or in my regular posts are quotes that speak to me, that tug at me or make me laugh or think or whatever. A quote must have substance to me, that is the only reason I will post it!!
I really need to thank La Belle Cuisine for quite a lot of these quotes. They assembled some beautiful quotes that I just love!! I also need to thank The Quote Garden. More beautiful quotes.
When baking, follow directions. When cooking, go by your own taste.
~Laiko Bahrs
Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
~Voltaire
If God had intended us to follow recipes, he wouldn’t have given us grandmothers.
~Linda Henley
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
Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
~Henry IV of France
In Mexico we have a word for sushi: bait.
~José Simons
If we’re not willing to settle for junk living, we certainly shouldn’t settle for junk food.
~Sally Edwards
He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.
~Henry David Thoreau
Recipe: A series of step-by-step instructions for preparing ingredients you forgot to buy, in utensils you don’t own, to make a dish the dog wouldn’t eat.
~Author Unknown
Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
~Mark Twain
Great food is like great sex. The more you have the more you want.
~Gael Greene
It’s so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone’s fingers have been all over it.
~Julia Child
The story of barbecue is the story of America: settlers arrive on a great unspoiled continent, discover wondrous riches, set them on fire and eat them.
~Vince Staten
The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor.
~Chinese Proverb
The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and in the passive.
~William Ralph Inge
Food is so primal, so essential a part of our lives, often the mere sharing of recipes with strangers turns them into good friends. That’s why I love this community.
~Jasmine Heiler, about recipezaar.com
There is no sight on earth more appealing than the sight of a woman making dinner for someone she loves.
~Thomas Wolfe
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
I don’t like food that’s too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I’d buy a painting.
~Andy Rooney
Ham and eggs - A day’s work for a chicken; A lifetime commitment for a pig.
~Anon.
I don’t like gourmet cooking or “this” cooking or “that” cooking. I like good cooking.
~James Beard
The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it’s bad for you.
~Isaac Asimov
Many aspects of my method are based on my feeling and experience. For instance, I always give my bird a generous butter massage before I put it in the oven. Why? Because I think the chicken likes it—and, more important, I like to give it.
~Julia Child
Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.
~Robert Redford
If you ever have to support a flagging conversation, introduce the topic of eating.
~Leigh Hunt
He who comes first, eats first.
~Eike von Repkow
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
~Epictetus
Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you, and be silent.
~Epictetus
Food is an important part of a balanced diet.
~Fran Lebowitz
Food is our common ground, a universal experience.
~James Beard
You don’t have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
~Julia Child
Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.
~M. F. K. Fisher
I love you like a fat kid loves cake.
~50 Cent (I just thought this one was hilarious!)
I am not a glutton - I am an explorer of food
~Erma Bombeck
Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
~Sarah Bernhardt
Food is our common ground, a universal experience.
~James Beard
Food is to eat, not to frame and hang on the wall.
~William Denton
I didn’t fight my way to the top of the food chain to be a vegetarian.
~Anon.
Man is born to eat.
~Craig Claiborne
Forget love, I’d rather fall in chocolate.
~Unknown
A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch.
~James Beard
After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relatives.
~Oscar Wilde
Anyone who eats three meals a day should understand why cookbooks out-sell sex books three to one.
~L. M. Boyd
Anything is good if it’s made of chocolate.
~Jo Brand
Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity.
~Frank Lloyd Wright
I hate people who are not serious about their meals.
~Oscar Wilde
I like children - fried.
~W.C. Fields
I like my coffee like I like my women. In a plastic cup.
~Eddie Izzard
I pray that death may strike me in the middle of a large meal. I wish to be buried under the tablecloth between four large dishes.
~Marc Desuagiers
Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
~Voltaire
It takes some skill to spoil a breakfast - even the English can’t do it.
~John Kenneth Galbraith
Never eat more than you can lift.
~Miss Piggy
Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.
~Erma Bombeck
When women are depressed, they either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It’s a whole different way of thinking.
~Elaine Boosler
