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Every civilization revolves around food. Apart from the fact that food is necessary for survival, eating draws people together to share their lives and tales.
Food brings people together all across the world, from meeting around campfires to formal meals. Food is frequently the finest and quickest method to learn about another culture.
So take a snack and enjoy today’s food quotations from famous chefs, cooks, and diners.
120+ Food Quotes As Civilization Revolves Around Food
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.___Virgina Woolfe
All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.― Charles M. Schulz
There is no love sincerer than the love of food.___George Bernard Shaw
Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving, and identity.__Jonathan Sofran Foer
You don’t need a silver fork to eat good food. – Paul Prudhomme
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.― J.R.R. Tolkien
Food is our common ground, a universal experience.___James Beard
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.― Virginia Woolf
Food may be essential as fuel for the body, but good food is fuel for the soul.___Malcom Forbes
Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.___Hippocrates
I love you like a fat kid loves cake!― Scott Adams
Food is symbolic of love when words are inadequate.___Alan D. Wolfet
Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness. – Auguste Escoffier
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.___J.R.R. Tolkien
Quotes about Food
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
Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.― Erma Bombeck
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.― Orson Welles
Large, naked, raw carrots are acceptable as food only to those who live in hutches eagerly awaiting Easter.___Fran Lebowitz
Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.___Dorothy Day
Popcorn for breakfast! Why not? It’s a grain. It’s like, like, grits, but with high self-esteem.― James Patterson
Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.___Ludwig van Beethoven
Laughter is brightest in the place where food is.___Irish Proverb
I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.― W.C. Fields
A party without cake is just a meeting.___Julia Child
A fit, healthy body—that is the best fashion statement.― Jess C Scott
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
Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.___Sofia Loren
Food is symbolic of love when words are inadequate. – Allen D. Wolfelt
Cakes are healthy too, you just eat a small slice.― Mary Berry
Ice cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.___Voltaire
If you can’t feed a hundred people, then just feed one.___Mother Teresa
Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg before it is broken.― M.F.K. Fisher
If your mother cooks Italian food, why should you go to a restaurant?___Martin Scorcese
Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world.___Norman Borlaug
Food is the most primitive form of comfort.__Sheila Graham
The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.___E.M. Forster
If music be the food of love, play on. – William Shakespeare
Humor keeps us alive. Humor and food. Don’t forget food. You can go a week without laughing.― Joss Whedon
There has never been a sadness that can’t be cured by breakfast food.___Ron Swanson
The food you eat can be either the safest and most powerful medicine or the slowest form of poison.___Ann Wigmore
You are what you eat eats.― Michael Pollan
I get way too much happiness from good food. – Elizabeth Olsen
To me, food is as much about the moment, the occasion, the location and the company as it is about the taste.___Heston Blumenthal
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
Well, food’s always the way to anybody’s heart, I think, guy or girl.___Josh Hutcherson
Anything is good if it’s made of chocolate.___Jo Brand
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
If you’re afraid of butter, use cream.― Julia Child
My weaknesses have always been food and men – in that order.___Dolly Parton
You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.― Ralph Waldo Emerson
What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.― A.A. Milne
Eating good food is my favorite thing in the world. Nothing is more blissful.___Justine Larbalestier
Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans … are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit.― Anthony Bourdain
The gift of food to the hungry is the noblest of all gifts.___Sathya Salbaba
But if you’re gonna dine with them cannibals
Sooner or later, darling, you’re gonna get eaten . . .― Nick Cave
How can a nation be called great if its bread tastes like kleenex?― Julia Child
Life is a combination of magic and pasta.___Federico Fellini
The way you make an omelet reveals your character.___Anthony Bourdain
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
Winter blues are cured every time with a potato gratin paired with a roast chicken.___Alex Guarnaschelli
Stop being a vegan and start enjoying what you eat.___Jamie Oliver
The kitchen is a sacred space. – Marc Forgione
Food is music to the body, music is food to the heart .__Gregory David Roberts
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
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
Quotes From Chefs
Food should be fun.– Thomas Keller
Food brings people together on many different levels. It’s nourishment of the soul and body; it’s truly love.___Giada De Laurentiis
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
A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring the soul to the recipe.___Thomas Keller
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
Good food and a warm kitchen is what makes a house a home.___Rachael Ray
It’s a food of love thing, baby.___Emeril Lagasse
About Eating
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.___Oscar Wilde
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
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
The best comfort food will always be greens, cornbread, and fried chicken.___Maya Angelou
We all eat, and it would be a sad waste of opportunity to eat badly.___Anna Thomas
Not eating meat is a decision, eating meat is an instinct.___Dennis Leary
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
To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.– Fancois de la Rouchefoucald
If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.___Leigh Hunt
Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.___Adelle Davis
All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.___John Gunther
About Cooking
The belly rules the mind.– Spanish Proverb
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.__Jonathan Swift
First we eat, then we do everything else.___M.F.K. Fisher
The secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.___Mark Twain
The only thing I like better than talking about food is eating.__John Walters
Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.___Mary Catherine Bateson
So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.___Franz Kafka
The most indespensible ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for.___Sofia Loren
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
In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.___Julia Child
Cooking and baking is both physical and mental therapy.___Mary Berry
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 like love, it should be entered into with abandon, or not at all.___Harriet Vorne Horne
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
Food was a labor of love you felt by cooking it and eating it.___George Tillman, Jr.
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
Cooking is an expression that crosses boundaries. – Ranveer Brar
I watch cooking change the cook, just as it transforms the food.___Laura Esquivel
I cook with wine. Sometimes I even add it to the food.__W.C. Fields
I prefer cooking to baking. Baking, to me, is very precise, and it’s about perfection.___Ree Drummond
Cooking done with care is an act of love. – Craig Claiborne
Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation—experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way.___Paul Theroux
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
Humorous Food Quotes
All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.___Charles Schulz
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.___Mark Twain
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
You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I’m not hungry enough to eat six.__Yogi Berra
After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relatives.__Oscar Wilde
Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.__Jim Davis
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.___Orson Welles
The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for the steak to cook.___Julia Child
Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first. – Ernestine Ulmer
Life is too short for self-hatred and celery sticks.___Marilyn Wann
My doctor told me I had to stop throwing intimate dinners for four unless there are three other people.___Orson Welles
Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the Titanic who waved off the dessert cart.___Erma Bombeck
A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand. – Barbara Johnson
Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.___W.C. Fields
I am not a glutton – I am an explorer of food.___Erma Bombeck
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