75+ Food Quotes For People Who Love To Eat

“Laughter is brightest where food is best.” Irish Proverb

Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious. -Ruth Reichl

Food is our common ground, a universal experience. -James Beard

I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else. -Nikos Kazantzakis

“This magical, marvelous food on our plate, this sustenance we absorb, has a story to tell. It has a journey.” -Joel Salatin

“You don’t need a silver fork to eat good food.” -Paul Prudhomme

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

“Food to a large extent is what holds a society together and eating is closely linked to deep spiritual experi­ences.­” -P­eter Farb

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

I am not a glutton – I am an explorer of food – Erma Bombeck

“The gentle art of gastronomy is a friendly one. It hurdles the language barrier, makes friends among civilized people, and warms the heart.” -Samuel Chamberlain

“Coo­kbooks aren’t so much about what’s for dinner as they are about a world of abundant and creative choices. With cookbooks our options are always open; we may not be able to ride the Concorde, but we can open a book and rustle up a Gratin de Poulet au Fromage if we’re so i­nclined.” -Sara Ban Breathnach

Food is a central activity of mankind and one of the single most significant trademarks of a cultur­e. -Ma­rk Kurlansky

There is no love sincerer than the love of food. – George Bernard Shaw

“How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese­?” ­– Charles de Gaulle

“Your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.” -Anthony Bourdain

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”- J.R.R. Tolkien

“Shipping is a terrible thing to do to vegetables. They probably get jet-lagged, just like people. -Elizabeth Berry

“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

Laughter is wine for the soul – laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness – the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living. -Seán O’Casey

“A perfect martini should be made by filling a glass with gin then waving it in the general direction of Italy.” – Noël Coward

“The proper union of gin and vermouth is a great and sudden glory; it is one of the happiest marriages on earth, and one of the shortest lived.” – Bernard DeVoto

“Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventur­es.” -M.F.K. Fisher

“The discovery of a wine is of greater moment than the discovery of a conste­llatio­n. The universe is too full­ of stars.”― Benjamin Franklin

“Give me wine to wash me clean of the weathe­r-stai­ns of cares.”― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A paring knife can be as creative as a paintbrush. Scraping, slicing, shredding, stirring, simmering, sauteing are all sleights of hand that switch your conscious mind onto artistic, automatic pilot.” -Sara Ban Breathnach

“The home is a sacred place where you can communicate with the four elements of the universe: earth, water, air, and fire. You mix it with your love and emotions and create magic. Through cooking, you raise your spiritual level and balance yourself in a world that is materi­alisti­c.” -Laura Esquivel

“I like a cook who smiles out loud when he tastes his own work. Let God worry about your modesty. I want to see your enthus­iasm.�­�� – Robert Farrar Capon

“If God had intended us to follow recipes, He wouldn’t have given us grandm­others­.” ~Linda Henley

“No one who cooks, cooks alone. 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

“I feel a recipe is only a theme, which an intelligent cook can play each time with a variat­ion” -Madam Benoit

“This is my invariable advice to people: Learn how to cook- try new recipes, learn from your mistakes, be fearless, and above all have fun!�­� – Julia Child

“It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so entwined that we cannot think of one with out the other.” -M. F. K Fisher

“Comfort food is hearty. When hearts are heavy, they need gravit­ationa­l and emotio­nal equilibrium: meat loaf and mashed potatoes, macaroni and cheese, chicken pot pie, red beans and rice, creamy risotto. Food that reassures us that we will survive.” -Sarah Ban Breathnach

“All food starting with p is comfort food: pasta, potato chips, pretzels, peanut butter, pastrami, pizza, pastry.” –Sara Paretsky

“Life itself is full, not only of charm and warmth and comfort but of sorrow and tears. But whether we are happy or sad, we must be fed.” -Laurie Colwin

“Food is the most primitive form of comfort.” -Sheilah Graham

“Laughter is brightest in the place where food is good.” -Irish Proverb

“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

“I learned early on that setting a table is so much more than laying down knifes and forks. It is creating a setting for food and conver­sation­, setting a mood that lingers long after what was served and who said what ­was fo­rgotten.” -Peri Wolfman

“The table is a meeting place, a gathering ground, the source of sustenance and nouris­hment, festivity, safety, and s­atisfa­ction.” -Laurie Coldwin

“Hos­pitali­ty is one form of worship.” -The Talmud

The oldest form of theater is the dinner table. -Michael J. Fox

“I have heard that the French like to say, “Nobody grows old during a happy occasion at the dining table.­” �­�� James Hauenstein

“There are times when wisdom cannot be found in the chambers of parliament or the halls of academia but at the unpret­entiou­s setting of the kitc­hen table.”― E.A. Bucchianeri

“Cooking is a caring and nurturing act. It’s kind of the ultimate gift for someone, to cook for them. It creates all this beautiful stuff, conver­sation­, appreciation, romance. All the most important things in life you do around a dinner table.” -Curtis Stone

“If you’re not in a good mood, the only thing you should make is a reserv­ation.­” —Carla Hall

“I always say that I don’t believe I’m a chef. I try to be a storyt­eller.­” – Jose Andres

“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 eat togeth­er.” -Guy Fieri

“I lurched away from the table after a few hours feeling like Elvis in Vegas – fat, drugged, and completely out of it.” ― Anthony Bourdain

“What you feel like eating at any given moment is what you should have.” – Ferran Adria