• Hunger is the best sauce. (Cervantes)
  • The belly rules the mind. (Spanish proverb)
  • If you don't like the skin, get out of the chicken.
  • Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me. The perfect meal, or the best meals, occur in a context that frequently has very little to do with the food itself. (Anthony Bourdain)
  • There are no bad foods, only bad food habits. (Alton Brown)
  • Good service can save a bad meal, but there is no level of food that can save bad service. (Alton Brown)
  • You know we fixate on the food so much itself: “Oh, the ultimate brownie or the ultimate this or that” -- well, let me tell you something: It’s all poop in about 12 hours, okay? The real power that food has is its ability to connect human beings to each other -- that’s the stuff right there and, to me, everything else is secondary to that. (Alton Brown)
  • One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. (Virginia Woolf)
  • Maybe evolution is irrelevant at dinnertime. (Jeffrey Steingarten)
  • All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast. (John Gunther)
  • There is no love sincerer than the love of food. (George Bernard Shaw)
  • The way to any woman's heart, be she witch or Wonderwoman, princess or Pocahontas, is through her stomach. (Alton Brown)
  • I don't like food, I love it. And if I don't love it, I don't swallow. (Anton Ego, Ratatouille)
  • 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)
  • There is no aspect, no facet, no moment of life that can't be improved with pizza. (Daria Morgendorffer)
  • I know they say that man can't live on bread alone.. but this is one man who's willing to try. (Alton Brown)
  • Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside. (Mark Twain)
  • To eat is a necessity. To eat intelligently is an art. (Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
  • A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch. (James Beard)
  • He who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else. (Samuel Johnson)
  • If I couldn't eat bread, I would shrivel up and die. (David Lebovitz)
  • When you acknowledge, as you must, that there is no such thing as perfect food, only the idea of it, then the real purpose of striving toward perfection becomes clear: to make people happy. That's what cooking is all about. (Thomas Keller)
  • Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. (Mark Twain)
  • The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. (G.K. Chesterton)
  • This is how I judge a great meal: when I'm eating it, I don't want to be anywhere else. (Nancy Silverton)
  • Proust had his madeleines; I am devastated by the scent of yeast bread rising. (Bert Greene)
  • Why garlic? Hey, garlic don't need no reason. (Alton Brown)
  • Life itself is the proper binge. (Julia Child)
  • Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone.. Bad food is fake food.. food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people’s ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives. Food that’s too safe, too pasteurized, too healthy – it’s bad! There should be some risk, like unpasteurized cheese. Food is about rot, and decay, and fermentation.. as much as it is also about freshness. (Anthony Bourdain)
  • To know how to eat well, one must first know how to wait. (Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin)
  • An ounce of sauce covers a multitude of sins. (Anthony Bourdain)
  • Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all. (Harriet Van Horne)
  • A dessert without cheese is like a beautiful woman with only one eye. (Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin)
  • Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are. (Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin)
  • A man who was fond of wine was offered some grapes at dessert after dinner. 'Much obliged,' said he, pushing the plate aside, 'I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills.' (Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin)
  • Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg until it is broken. (MFK Fisher)
  • Bacon is like a little hug from God.
  • Food is really never just food.. it's a way of making sense of the world. (Molly Wizenberg)
  • You know, eating’s much more important than most people think. There comes a time in your life when you’ve just got to have something super-delicious. And when you’re standing at that crossroads your whole life can change, depending on which one you go into — the good restaurant or the awful one. (Haruki Murakami)
  • Food is a subject of conversation more spiritually refreshing even than the weather, for the number of possible remarks about the weather is limited, whereas of food you can talk on and on and on. Moreover, no heat of controversy is induced by mention of the atmospheric conditions (seeing that we are all agreed as to what is a good day and what is a bad one) and where there can be no controversy there can be no intimacy in agreement. But tastes in food differ so sharply…that a pronounced agreement in them is of all bonds a union the most intimate. Thus, if a man hates tapioca pudding he is a good fellow and my friend. (A.A. Milne)
  • Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first. (Ernestine Ulmer)
  • The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down. Each day brings only two opportunities for field work, and they are not to be wasted minimizing the intake of cholesterol. (A.J. Liebling)
  • Cheese! Why won't it stop flirting with me? (Joss Whedon)
  • I just figured, if I was going to make the world a better place, I would do it with cookies. (Maggie Gyllenhaal as Ana Pascal, Stranger Than Fiction)
  • Cilantro, very controversial. You either love it or hate it. Me? I love it. (Zachary Levi as Chuck Bartowski, Chuck)
  • We better take care of the earth or we're gonna have shitty food, and having shitty food is no fun. (Michael Ruhlman)
  • Good food is a good trend. (Thomas Keller)
  • I don't believe in twisting yourself into knots of excuses and explanations over the food you make. When one's hostess starts in with self-deprecations such as "Oh, I don't know how to cook...," or "Poor little me...," or "This may taste awful...," it is so dreadful to have to reassure her that everything is delicious and fine, whether it is or not. Besides, such admissions only draw attention to one's shortcomings (or self-perceived shortcomings), and make the other person think, "Yes, you're right, this really is an awful meal!" ...The cook must simply grit her teeth and bear it with a smile — and learn from her mistakes. (Julia Child)
  • Stress cannot exist in the presence of pie. (David Mamet)
  • Keep in mind the pie dough rule of escalating insanity. The more your pie dough makes you weep, gnash your teeth and lie on the kitchen floor convinced that the whole enterprise is a complete disaster, the more likely it is that your pie dough will be heavenly. Beware the pie dough that is easy to work with; it will most likely end up dry and tough. (Rice and Spice)
  • I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate. (Julia Child)
  • Anyone can cook, and most everyone should. (Mark Bittman)
  • British food is a celebration of comfort eating. Our traditional savoury recipes are all about warmth and sustenance, our puddings a roll call of sweet jollity, our cakes are deep and cosy. We appear to be a nation in need of a big, warm hug. (Nigel Slater)
  • I am not a glutton. I am an explorer of food. (Erma Bombeck)
  • I have one at home and I think it’s to dry the newspaper, I guess. (Chef Hubert Keller on owning a microwave)
  • Everything French is amazing, especially creme brulee, but then burnt sugar works for me in any capacity. (Rashida Jones)
  • What keeps me motivated is not the food itself but all the bonds and memories the food represents. (Michael Chiarello)
  • I wanted to buy a candle holder, but the store didn't have one. So I got a cake instead. (Mitch Hedberg)
  • This experience, it's definitely going to be changing something later on in my creativity. Right now I am kind of a sponge and I'm absorbing the culture, the lighting, the ingredients. I'm just enjoying it. And I know that somewhere—I don't know where or when—but in terms of cooking, it will come back into a recipe in a way. I cannot really define how the light in the sky ends up on a plate, but it's all those experiences in life that I accumulate, they definitely give me a certain.. maybe we can call that a cooking wisdom. There has been an evolution in the way I cook because of experiences like that. (Eric Ripert)
  • Perception is a powerful thing. Your best meal could be an elaborate 16-course affair, or a hot dog shared with someone special on a mountaintop. The best meals are more about the moment than they are about the food. (Marc Vetri)
  • The recipe is from the now-defunct Gourmet magazine. Why do all the things I love go away? (Eric Stonestreet as Cameron Tucker, Modern Family)
  • They loved your casserole! It's hard to believe that just a little while ago these were nothing but ingredients. (Lisa Kudrow as Phoebe Buffay, Friends)
  • Food and the making of it and the stories it can tell is a lifelong interest. (James Oseland)
  • I remember asking Julia Child—she was in her 80s—I said, ‘Julia, why don’t you just put your feet up and relax?’ She said, ‘You stop, you die.’ I’m not ready to stop. (Jody Adams)
  • At mealtime, there were three topics of conversation: what we'd just eaten, what we were eating now, and what we'd eat later. (from an article in Saveur)
  • It's hard to swallow your pride. That's why I slather mine in mayonnaise. (Stephen Colbert)
  • There is no food closer to my heart than cheese. In fact, according to my doctor, it has nearly filled my aorta. (Stephen Colbert)
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