Food Quotations And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“Give a man a fish, and you’ll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he’ll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you’re a consultant.”
– Scott Adams

“I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.”
– John Kennedy Toole

“I breathe in slowly. Food is life. I exhale, take another breath. Food is life. And that’s the problem. When you’re alive, people can hurt you. It’s easier to crawl into a bone cage or a snowdrift of confusion. It’s easier to lock everybody out.
– Laurie Halse Anderson

“Blood may be thicker than water, but it’s certainly not as thick as ketchup. Nor does it go as well with French fries.”
– Jarod Kintz

“Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.”
– G.K. Chesterton

“If you’re afraid of butter, use cream.”
– Julia Child

“Tofu tacos are not Mexican. I think putting tofu on anything and calling it Mexican is an insult to my people.”
– Simone Elkeles

“If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“You can tell a lot about a fellow’s character by his way of eating jellybeans. ”
– Ronald Regan

“There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won’t, and that’s a wife who can’t cook and will.”
– Robert Frost

“The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you’ve got to have a what-the-hell attitude.”
– Julia Child

“The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“Life is half delicious yogurt, half crap, and your job is to keep the plastic spoon in the yogurt.”
– Scott Adams

“The first time you see something that you have never seen before, you almost always know right away if you should eat it or run away from it.”
– Scott Adams

“Hydrogenated and androgynous milky white love is all I have to offer you. Would you like me to pour it in your coffee, or directly into your soul?
– Jarod Kintz

“I’d rather fake my own fog, than fake a steamy love scene. Can I interest you in some mist? It’s homemade.
– Jarod Kintz

“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food”
– Hippocrates

“your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.”
– Anthony Bourdain

“I don’t know what it is about food your mother makes for you, especially when it’s something that anyone can make – pancakes, meat loaf, tuna salad – but it carries a certain taste of memory.”
– Mitch Albom

“When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.”
– Helder Camara

“The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one.”
– Erma Bombeck

“Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans … are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit.”
– Anthony Bourdain

“Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cream makes it Russian; lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese; garlic makes it good.”
– Alice May Brock

“Do we really want to travel in hermetically sealed popemobiles through the rural provinces of France, Mexico and the Far East, eating only in Hard Rock Cafes and McDonalds? Or do we want to eat without fear, tearing into the local stew, the humble taqueria’s mystery meat, the sincerely offered gift of a lightly grilled fish head? I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once.”
– Anthony Bourdain

“No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, the wisdom of cookbook writers.”
– Laurie Colwin

“Life itself is the proper binge.”
– Julia Child

“A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.”
– Elsa Shiaparelli

“The cucumber and the tomato are both fruit; the avocado is a nut. To assist with the dietary requirements of vegetarians, on the first Tuesday of the month a chicken is officially a vegetable.”
– Jasper Fforde

“Parla Come Mangi’ –It is a common way to say ‘be simple’, ‘don’t try to be rhetorical’ literaly: ‘speak the way you eat”
– Elizzabeth Gilbert

“Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.”
– William Shakespeare

Pages: 1 2 3 4 5

Follow this site