Food is one of life’s joys. It’s a source of both comfort and happiness. When we’re happy, we celebrate with friends and a delicious meal. When we’re sick, we get soothed by childhood soups and meals.
Everyone has a love affair with food.
In this post, we share a collection of the most inspiring and amusing food quotes that’ll remind us how life is kind. Because if it weren’t, we wouldn’t have taste buds.
There is no sincerer love than the love of food. – George Bernard Shaw
Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first. – Ernestine Ulmer
Food, in the end, in our own tradition, is something holy. It’s not about nutrients and calories. It’s about sharing. It’s about honesty. It’s about identity. – Louise Fresco
I love food and I love everything involved with food. I love the fun of it. I love restaurants. I love cooking, although I don’t cook very much. I love kitchens. – Alma Guillermoprieto
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
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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
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. – Virginia Woolf
All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt. – Charles M. Schulz
Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside. – Mark Twain
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You don’t need a silver fork to eat good food. – Paul Prudhomme
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
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. – J.R.R. Tolkien
Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them. – Sai Baba
Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures. – M. F. K. Fisher
Food is our common ground, a universal experience. – James Beard
People who love to eat are always the best people. – Julia Child
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Most of us have fond memories of food from our childhood. Whether it was our mom’s homemade lasagna or a memorable chocolate birthday cake, food has a way of transporting us back to the past. – Homaro Cantu
The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body. – Pat Buchanan
Cooking Quotes
Cooking is about passion, so it may look slightly temperamental in a way that it’s too assertive to the naked eye. – Gordon Ramsay
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Once you understand the foundations of cooking – whatever kind you like, whether it’s French or Italian or Japanese – you really don’t need a cookbook anymore. – Thomas Keller
Great cooking favors the prepared hands. – Jacques Pepin
Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all. – Harriet Van Horne
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
Cooking is not difficult. Everyone has taste, even if they don’t realize it. Even if you’re not a great chef, there’s nothing to stop you understanding the difference between what tastes good and what doesn’t. – Gerard Depardieu
I think careful cooking is love, don’t you? The loveliest thing you can cook for someone who’s close to you is about as nice a valentine as you can give. – Julia Child
In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport. – Julia Child
Funny Food Quotes
The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for the steak to cook. – Julia Child
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch. – Orson Welles
Love and sausage are alike. Can never have enough of either. – Trixie Koontz
Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It’s made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners! – Roald Dahl
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We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie. – David Mamet
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found. – Calvin Trillin
What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow. – A.A. Milne
It’s absolutely unfair for women to say that guys only want one thing: sex. We also want food. – Jarod Kintz
After a good dinner, one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations. ― Oscar Wilde
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