Cooking And Eating Quotes:

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

- Thomas Keller

source: Thomas Keller (2016). “The French Laundry Cookbook”, p.2, Artisan Books

topic: Food, Soul, Recipes, Cooking Love, Good Cook

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

topic: Food, Attention, Way, Eating Food, Great Food

It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.

- Lewis Grizzard

topic: Summer, Food, Garden, Delicious Food, Homegrown

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

topic: Food, Past, Advice, Cookbook, Chefs Cooking

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

- Calvin Trillin

topic: Funny, Mom, Mother, Being A Mother, Delicious Food

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

- Voltaire

topic: Food, Drinking, Godly, Delicious Food, Great Food

Life is a combination of magic and pasta.

- Federico Fellini

topic: Food, Cooking, Magic, Italian Cooking, Eating Food

Alfred Austin said, "Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are."

- Alfred Austin

source: "Fictional character: Alex Blake". "Criminal Minds". Season 8, Episode 5: "The Good Earth", www.imdb.com. October 31, 2012.

topic: Horse, Food, Journey, Slow Food, Inspirational Gardening

Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.

- Charles Dudley Warner

source: Charles Dudley Warner “The Complete Works of Charles Dudley Warner”, Library of Alexandria

topic: Food, Bitter, Conversation, Lettuce, Sparkling

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

- Jonathan Swift

topic: Food, Men, Oysters, Eating Food, Great Food

The act of putting into your mouth what the earth has grown is perhaps your most direct interaction with the earth.

- Frances Moore Lappé

source: Frances Moore Lappé (1971). “Diet for a Small Planet”

topic: Food, Science, Mouths, Organic Food, Cooking And Eating

A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.

- Elsa Schiaparelli

source: 1954 A Shocking Life, ch.21.

topic: Food, Sorceress, Cooks, Good Cook, Great Food

A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.

- Barbara Johnson

source: Paula Deen, Sherry Suib Cohen (2009). “Paula Deen: It Ain't All About the Cookin'”, p.264, Simon and Schuster

topic: Food, Hands, Cookies, Delicious Food, Sweets And Desserts

Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.

- Samuel Johnson

topic: Food, Cucumbers, Vinegar, Eating Food, Cooking And Eating

We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink.

- Epicurus

topic: Food, Looks, Drink, Dine In, Eating And Drinking

He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

- Samuel Johnson

topic: Motivational, Fitness, Food, Eating Food, Cooking And Eating

I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.

- A. Whitney Brown

topic: Funny, Sarcastic, Hate, Cooking And Eating, Vegan Food

Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.

- Craig Claiborne

topic: Children, Food, Play, Cooking Love, Chefs Cooking

I've 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

topic: Food, Adventure, Oysters, Delicious Food, Kitchen Confidential

To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living.

- Anthony Bourdain

topic: Food, Meat, Pork, Life Is Not Worth Living, Kitchen Confidential

Nobody seems more obsessed by diet than our antimaterialist, otherworldly, New Age, spiritual types. But if the material world is merely illusion, an honest guru should as content with Budweiser and bratwurst as with raw carrot juice, tofu, and seaweed slime.

- Edward Abbey

source: Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.16, RosettaBooks

topic: Spiritual, Food, Cooking, Material World, Tofu

Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Funny Inspirational, Food, Health, Raw Food, Chances In Life

Hunger is the best sauce in the world.

- Miguel de Cervantes

source: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1733). “The history of the valorous and witty knight-errant don Quixote of the Mancha. Tr. by mr. Shelton, and mr. Blunt. Pr. from the quarto ed. of 1620. With cutts from Coypell. And several annotations and amendments, not in any former ed. With a preface”, p.31

topic: Food, Cooking, World, Hunger For Food, Cooking And Eating

Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.

- Elsa Schiaparelli

source: Elsa Schiaparelli (1954). “Shocking Life”

topic: Life, Food, Giving, Goodwill, Morale

The food you eat can either be the safest and most powerful form of medicine, or the slowest form of poison

- Ann Wigmore

source: Ann Wigmore (1984). “The Hippocrates Diet and Health Program”, p.9, Penguin

topic: Powerful, Health, Weekend, Inspirational Health, Healthy Eating

In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.

- Julia Child

topic: Sports, Art, Food, Chefs Cooking, Cooking And Eating

All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.

- Charles M. Schulz

topic: Love, Witty, Hurt, Humor Love, Humorous Love

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

- Ludwig van Beethoven

topic: Food, Heart, Cooking, Cooking And Eating

What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.

- A. A. Milne

source: "Not That It Matters".

topic: Beauty, Food, Home Cooking, Eating Food, Great Food

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Freedom, Food, Optimistic, Cooking And Eating

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

- Samuel Johnson

topic: Mistake, Food, Wine, Vineyards, Old Wine

Don't eat anything your great-great grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. There are a great many food-like items in the supermarket your ancestors wouldn't recognize as food.. stay away from these

- Michael Pollan

topic: Health, Grandmother, Great Men, Healthy Living, Inspirational Health

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

- Mark Twain

topic: Life, Success, Food, Secret Life, Yummy

Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.

- Sophia Loren

topic: Beauty, Food, Inspiration, Spaghetti Sauce, Favorite Foods

The people who give you their food give you their heart.

- Cesar Chavez

topic: Heart, People, Giving, Delicious Food, Favorite Foods

Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

- Fran Lebowitz

topic: Funny, Life, Witty, Delicious Food, Stupidest Celebrity

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

- Doug Larson

topic: Food, Vegetables, Green, Spiritual Health, I Love Food

I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Food, Sick, Dying, Delicious Food, Eating Food

People who love to eat are always the best people.

- Julia Child

topic: Love, Food, People, Delicious Food, I Love Food

I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.

- W. C. Fields

topic: Funny, Witty, Humorous, Yummy, Delicious Food

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

- Samuel Butler

topic: Funny, Friendship, Sarcastic, Indian Food, Eating Food

If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him... the people who give you their food give you their heart.

- Cesar Chavez

topic: Love, Food, Heart, Delicious Food, Favorite Foods

I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.

- Julia Child

topic: Food, Inspiration, Cooking, Chefs Cooking, Cooking And Eating

All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.

- John Gunther

topic: Happiness, Food, Breakfast, Delicious Food, Eating Food

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

- Harriet Van Horne

source: 1956 Vogue, Oct.

topic: Love, Food, Memorable, I Love Food, Food Love

I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead.

- Woody Allen

topic: Witty, Food, Oysters, Delicious Food, Eating Food

My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order.

- Dolly Parton

topic: Love, Food, Men, Delicious Food, I Love Food

Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.

- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

topic: Love, Food, Health, Spanish Proverb, Slow Food