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“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
“Never be a food snob. Learn from everyone you meet: the fish guy at your market, the lady at the local diner, farmers, cheese makers. Ask questions, try everything and eat up!” – Rachael Ray
“Anything is good if it’s made of chocolate.” – Jo Brand
“Food is music to the body, music is food to the heart .” – Gregory David Roberts
“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” – Virgina Woolfe
“The only thing I like better than talking about food is eating.” – John Walters
“My weaknesses have always been food and men – in that order.” – Dolly Parton
“Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the Titanic who waved off the dessert cart.” – Erma Bombeck
“To me, food is as much about the moment, the occasion, the location and the company as it is about the taste.” – Heston Blumenthal
“Stop being a vegan and start enjoying what you eat.” – Jamie Oliver
“Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.” – Dorothy Day
“Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.” – Sofia Loren
“There has never been a sadness that can’t be cured by breakfast food.” – Ron Swanson
“The secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.” – Mark Twain
“Life is a combination of magic and pasta.” – Federico Fellini
“Food is strength, and food is peace, and food is freedom, and food is a helping hand to people around the world whose good will and friendship we want.” – John F. Kennedy
“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” – Hippocrates
“Cooking is all about people. Food is maybe the only universal thing that really has the power to bring everyone together. No matter what culture, everywhere around the world, people get together to eat.” – Guy Fieri
“Well, food’s always the way to anybody’s heart, I think, guy or girl.” – Josh Hutcherson
“Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.” – Orson Welles
“All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.” – John Gunther
“Food was a labor of love you felt by cooking it and eating it.” – George Tillman, Jr.
“The gift of food to the hungry is the noblest of all gifts.” – Sathya Salbaba
“My doctor told me I had to stop throwing intimate dinners for four unless there are three other people.” – Orson Welles
“If you really want to make a friend, go to someone’s house and eat… The people who give you their food give you their heart.” – Caesar Chavez
“If you can’t feed a hundred people, then just feed one.” – Mother Teresa
“Food can be very transformational, and it can be more than just about a dish. That’s what happened to me when I first went to France. I fell in love. And if you fall in love, well, then everything is easy.” – Alice Waters
“Winter blues are cured every time with a potato gratin paired with a roast chicken.” – Alex Guarnaschelli
“Large, naked, raw carrots are acceptable as food only to those who live in hutches eagerly awaiting Easter.” – Fran Lebowitz
“You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I’m not hungry enough to eat six.” – Yogi Berra
“The way you make an omelet reveals your character.” – Anthony Bourdain
“I cook with wine. Sometimes I even add it to the food.” – W.C. Fields
“Food is the most primitive form of comfort.” – Sheila Graham
“I realized very early the power of food to evoke memory, to bring people together, to transport you to other places, and I wanted to be a part of that.” – José Andrés Puerta
“The best comfort food will always be greens, cornbread, and fried chicken.” – Maya Angelou
“Ice cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.” – Voltaire
“Good food and a warm kitchen is what makes a house a home.” – Rachael Ray
“Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving, and identity.” – Jonathan Sofran Foer
“Food may be essential as fuel for the body, but good food is fuel for the soul.” – Malcom Forbes
“I watch cooking change the cook, just as it transforms the food.” – Laura Esquivel
“Life is too short for self-hatred and celery sticks.” – Marilyn Wann
“Sometimes you have to move paste things, and the best way to do that is by sharinng your life with people over food.” – Andrew Zimmern, The Zimmern List
“There is no love sincerer than the love of food.” – George Bernard Shaw
“Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.” – W.C. Fields
“First we eat, then we do everything else.” – M.F.K. Fisher
“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
“Cooking and baking is both physical and mental therapy.” – Mary Berry
“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
“You can’t just eat good food. You’ve got to talk about it too. And you’ve got to talk about it to somebody who understands that kind of food.” – Kurt Vonnegut
“The food you eat can be either the safest and most powerful medicine or the slowest form of poison.” – Ann Wigmore
“Not eating meat is a decision, eating meat is an instinct.” – Dennis Leary
“There are two activities in life in which we can lovingly and carefully put something inside of someone we love. Cooking is the one we can do three times a day for the rest of our lives, without pills. In both activities, practice makes perfect.” – Mario Batali
“Cooking is like painting or writing a song. Just as there are only so many notes or colors, there are only so many flavors – it’s how you combine them that sets you apart.” – Wolfgang Puck
“The Food and Drug Administration announced today that while one ounce of Special K with four ounces of milk is a good dietary source of protein, one ounce of Special K with five ounces of milk is deadly poison.” – Norm Macdonald
“Cooking is like love, it should be entered into with abandon, or not at all.” – Harriet Vorne Horne
“The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.” – E.M. Forster
“The most indespensible ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for.” – Sofia Loren
“I’m pretty sure that eating chocolate keeps wrinkles away because I have never seen a 10 year old with a Hershey bar and crows feet.” – Amy Neftzger
“Cooking demands attention, patience, and above all, a respect for the gifts of the earth. It is a form of worship, a way of giving thanks.” – Judith B. Jones
“Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation—experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way.” – Paul Theroux
“A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.” – Lord Byron
“If your mother cooks Italian food, why should you go to a restaurant?” – Martin Scorcese
“Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.” – Ludwig van Beethoven
“Food is symbolic of love when words are inadequate.” – Alan D. Wolfet
“Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.” – Mark Twain
“The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for the steak to cook.” – Julia Child
“In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.” – Julia Child
“Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world.” – Norman Borlaug
“I’m a home cook and love to read about food, but I’m not trained as a chef. I’m just really into cooking and passionate about it.” – Ted Allen
“A party without cake is just a meeting.” – Julia Child
“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.” – Charles Schulz
“A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring the soul to the recipe.” – Thomas Keller
“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relatives.” – Oscar Wilde
“We all eat, and it would be a sad waste of opportunity to eat badly.” – Anna Thomas
“Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.” – Mary Catherine Bateson
“Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.” – Adelle Davis
“He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.” – Jonathan Swift
“Food brings people together on many different levels. It’s nourishment of the soul and body; it’s truly love.” – Giada De Laurentiis
“Food is our common ground, a universal experience.” – James Beard
“So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.” – Franz Kafka
“Food for us comes from our relatives, whether they have wings or fins or roots. That is how we consider food. Food has a culture. It has a history. It has a story. It has relationships.” – Winona LaDuke
“It’s a food of love thing, baby.” – Emeril Lagasse
“Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.” – Jim Davis
“Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.” – Oscar Wilde
“Food delights us, food unites us, food embodies the soil, the sea and the weather, the farmer’s sweat and the fisherman’s toil.” – Don George
“Laughter is brightest in the place where food is.” – Irish Proverb
“I am not a glutton – I am an explorer of food.” – Erma Bombeck
“If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.” – Leigh Hunt
“I prefer cooking to baking. Baking, to me, is very precise, and it’s about perfection.” – Ree Drummond
“Eating good food is my favorite thing in the world. Nothing is more blissful. ” – Justine Larbalestier