More Food Quotes And Sayings

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“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relatives.”
– Oscar Wilde

“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

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

“We plan, we toil, we suffer – in the hope of what? A camel-load of idol’s eyes? The title deeds of Radio City? The empire of Asia? A trip to the moon? No, no, no, no. Simply to wake just in time to smell coffee and bacon and eggs.”
– J.B. Priestly

“Life is a combination of magic and pasta.”
– Federico Fellini

“Soup is just a way of screwing you out of a meal.”
– Jay Leno

“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

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

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

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

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

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

“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

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

“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

“It’s amazing how pervasive food is. Every second commercial is for food. Every second TV episode takes place around a meal. In the city, you can’t go ten feet without seeing or smelling a restaurant. There are 20 foot high hamburgers up on billboards. I am acutely aware of food, and its omnipresence is astounding.”
– Adam Scott, The Monkey Chow Diaries, June 2006

“Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.”
– Adelle Davis

“Although I have been prevented by outward circumstances from observing a strictly vegetarian diet, I have long been an adherent to the cause in principle. Besides agreeing with the aims of vegetarianism for aesthetic and moral reasons, it is my view that a vegetarian manner of living by its purely physical effect on the human temperament would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.”
– Albert Einstein, Translation of letter to Hermann Huth, December 27, 1930

“Eating is always a decision, nobody forces your hand to pick up food and put it into your mouth.”
– Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi, The Art & Science of Rational Eating, 1992

“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

“The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.”
– Aristotle

“Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you’ve conquered human nature.”
– Charles Dickens

“I no longer prepare food or drink with more than one ingredient.”
– Cyra McFadden

“Eating is really one of your indoor sports. You play three times a day, and it’s well worth while to make the game as pleasant as possible.”
– Dorothy Draper

“He who comes first, eats first.”
– Eike von Repkow

“Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.”
– Epictetus

“I have never cared much for fish – it floats in the belly as much as in the pond.”
– Erica Eisdorfer, The Wet Nurse’s Tale, 2009

“If the divine creator has taken pains to give us delicious and exquisite things to eat, the least we can do is prepare them well and serve them with ceremony.”
– Fernand Point

“Food is an important part of a balanced diet.”
– Fran Lebowitz

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

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