My doctor told me I had to stop throwing intimate dinners for four unless there are three other people.
– Orson Welles
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
Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
– Voltaire
Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.
– W.C. Fields
There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
– George Bernard Shaw
I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.
– Erma Bombeck
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
– Virginia Woolf
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
We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.
– George Orwell
Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.
– Harriet van Horne
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
– Jonathan Swift
Life is a combination of magic and pasta.
– Federico Fellini
Food should be fun.
– Thomas Keller
Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.
– Jim Davis
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
My favorite animal is steak.
– Fran Lebowitz
Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts!
– James Beard
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
– J.R.R. Tolkien
Bread, milk and butter are of venerable antiquity. They taste of the morning of the world.
– Leigh Hunt
The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of the human race than the discovery of a star.
– Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Food is symbolic of love when words are inadequate.
– Alan D. Wolfelt
Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art. It requires instinct and taste rather than exact measurements.
– Marcel Boulestin
Secrets, especially with cooking, are best shared so that the cuisine lives on.
– Bo Songvisava
Age and glasses of wine should never be counted
– Italian quote
There are many miracles in the world to be celebrated and, for me, garlic is the most deserving.
– Leo Buscaglia
He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast in his heart.
– C. S. Lewis
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