Culinary Love Quotes:

Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; and good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts.

- James Beard

source: "The Soup & Bread Cookbook: More Than 100 Seasonal Pairings for Simple, Satisfying Meals". Book by Beatrice Ojakangas, p. 7, 2013.

topic: Food, Bread, Culinary, Delicious Food, Great Food

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

- Virginia Woolf

source: 1929 A Room of One's Own, ch.1.

topic: Love, Food, Sleep, Hunger For Food, Healthy Living

All sorrows are less with bread.

- Miguel de Cervantes

topic: Food, Sorrow, Bread, Delicious Food, Food And Drink

As for butter versus margarine, I trust cows more than chemists.

- Joan Dye Gussow

topic: Fitness, Cows, Chemist, Processed Food, Organic Food

People who love to eat are always the best people.

- Julia Child

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

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

- J. R. R. Tolkien

source: J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.152, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Life, Happiness, Music, Hunger For Food, Delicious Food

A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch.

- James Beard

topic: Drinking, Food, Thinking, Eating Food, Chefs Cooking

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

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

- Lewis Grizzard

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

There is nothing better on a cold wintry day than a properly made pot pie.

- Craig Claiborne

topic: Pie, Cold, Pot, Culinary Love

What I love about cooking is that after a hard day, there is something comforting about the fact that if you melt butter and add flour and then hot stock, it will get thick! It's a sure thing! It's a sure thing in a world where nothing is sure; it has a mathematical certainty in a world where those of us who long for some kind of certainty are forced to settle for crossword puzzles.

- Nora Ephron

topic: Food, Long, Cooking, Thick, Sure Thing

Ive never gone to culinary school, but I do love cooking.

- Keshia Knight Pulliam

topic: School, Cooking, Gone, Cooking Love, Culinary Love

I want to go to culinary school because I love cooking. One day I'd love to open up a restaurant or cafe

- Mary-Kate Olsen

topic: School, Cooking, One Day, Cooking Love, Cooking And Love

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

topic: Food, Autumn, Wind, Culinary Love

Cooking is at once one of the simplest and most gratifying of the arts, but to cook well one must love and respect food.

- Craig Claiborne

topic: Art, Food, Cooking, Chefs Cooking, Culinary Love

The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me and I to them.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Food, Men, Vegetables, Food And Drink, Culinary Love

It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others. So it happens that when I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and the hunger for it… and then the warmth and richness and fine reality of hunger satisfied… and it is all one.

- M. F. K. Fisher

source: The Gastronomical Me foreword (1943).

topic: Food, Writing, Reality, Hunger For Food, Comfort Food

There’s no sight on earth more appealing than that of a woman making dinner for someone she loves.

- Thomas Wolfe

topic: Love, Food, Sight, Chefs Cooking, Culinary Love

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

topic: Funny Inspirational, Food, Poetry, Delicious Food, Great Poet

You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.

- Charles Kuralt

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Country, Stars, Fun, Dixie, Brooklyn Bridge

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

The kitchen, reasonably enough, was the scene of my first gastronomic adventure. I was on all fours. I crawled into the vegetable bin, settled on a giant onion and ate it, skin and all. It must have marked me for life, for I have never ceased to love the hearty flavor of raw onions.

- James Beard

source: James Beard (2015). “Delights and Prejudices”, p.8, Open Road Media

topic: Fours, Culinary Love

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

- Mark Twain

topic: Education, Food, Inspiration, Going Back To School, Back To College

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

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

- Oscar Wilde

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

I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regretted most of them, but never the potatoes that went with them.

- Nora Ephron

topic: Love, Regret, Mistake, Delicious Food, I Love Food

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

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. Priestley

topic: Coffee, Food, Eye, Culinary Love, Fresh Food

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