100+ Food Quotes For People Who Love To Eat

Laughter is brightest where food is best. -Irish Proverb

“The stove is the shrine where I convene with my ancest­ors” ― Adam Ragusea

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

“Sen­sualit­y is the real food for the soul.” ― Lebo Grand

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

“Separate pots of simmering French and Italian soup stocks­… Bo­wls of various Chinese sp­ice bl­ends… Trimmed and marinating lamb shanks, a common ingredie­nt in ­Turkish cooking… And the foundation of all Indian cuisin­e- toa­sting the starter spices!” ― Yuto Tsukuda

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

“…no one is born a great cook, one learns by doing.­” �­� Julia Child

“I’ve come to appreciate cooking over the years. It’s an art, I’m convinced of it, just as noble as painting or poetry. It’s not appreciated simply because the product disappears so quickly” ― Kazuo Ishiguro

“Pre­paring a dish or a meal is not merely an effort to satisfy physical hunger but often a quest for the good l­ife.” ― Janet Theophano

“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

“in the abstract art of cookin­g, ing­redien­ts trump appliances, passion su­persed­es exp­ertise, cr­eativi­ty tri­umphs over technique, spontaneity inspires invention, and wine makes ­even t­he worst culinary disaster taste delicious.” ― Bob Blumer

“Invest in what’s real. Clean as you go. Drink while you cook. Make it fun. It doesn’t have to be compli­cated. It will be what it will be.” ― Gwyneth Paltrow

“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

“I think preparing food and feeding people brings nourishment not only to our bodies but to our spirits. Feeding people is a way of loving them, in the same way that feeding ourselves is a way of honoring our own createdness and fragil­ity.�­� ― Shauna Niequist

Cooking requires confident guesswork and improv­isatio­n– experimentation ­and su­bstitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way. ― Paul Theroux

“The repetitive phases of cooking leave plenty of mental space for reflection, and as I chopped and minced and sliced I thought about the rhythms of cooking, one of which involves destroying the order of the things we bring from nature into our kitchens, only to then create from them a new order.”  -Michael Pollan

Food is art and magic; it evokes emotion and colors memory, and in skilled hands, meals become greater than the sum of their ingred­ients. ― Anthony Beal

“Cooking is about surren­der.�­� ― Tembi Locke

“Cooking is an art and also science.” ― Mohith Agadi

“The social joys of making a meal with friends are known to all who have done so.” ― Billy Bake

Baking and cooking bring me inner peace, like a tasty version of yoga, without all the awkward stretching and sweating. -Dana Bate

“Cooking was magic and music combined. The crack of shells, the hiss of pancetta hitting a hot pan, the metallic clang of a whisk beating the side of a bowl, even the rythmic thwack of a cleaver against a wooden cutting board.­” �­� Kerri Maniscalco

“Cooking is about life. It gives us what we need to keep going, and it gives us something to share with other people­.” �­�� Joan Bauer

“Chefs are cooking blind, for strangers whose memories are unknown.” ― Bee Wilson

“Don’t be afraid of cooking, as your ingredients will know and misbehave. Enjoy your cooking and the food will behave; moreover it will pass your pleasure on to those who eat it.” ― Fergus Henderson

“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

“There ain’t a body, be it mouse or man, that ain’t made better by a little soup.�­�� ― Kate DiCamillo

“The­re’s also some really solid kneading to be done here, which is the best cure for a troubled heart: hands in the dough, window wide, something jaunty on the radio.” ― Ella Risbridger

“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

“… food is not simply organic fuel to keep body and soul together, it is a perishable art that must be savoured at the peak of perfec­tion.�­�� ― 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