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Funny Food Quotes and Saying

• 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 and William Wright, Pavarotti
• At the end of every diet, the path curves back toward the trough. —– Mason Cooley
• The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me and I to them. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
• And I find chopsticks frankly distressing. Am I alone in thinking it odd that a people ingenious enough to invent paper, gunpowder, kites and any number of other useful objects, and who have a noble history extending back 3,000 years haven’t yet worked out that a pair of knitting needles is no way to capture food? ~Bill Bryson
• We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are. —-Adelle Davis
• Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does it more slowly but perhaps just as surely. Who knows if a well-prepared soup was not responsible for the pneumatic pump or a poor one for a war? —— Georg C. Lichtenberg
• One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. —-Virginia Woolf
• Toots Shore’s restaurant is so crowded nobody goes there anymore. —– Yogi Berra
• And I find chopsticks frankly distressing. Am I alone in thinking it odd that a people ingenious enough to invent paper, gunpowder, kites and any number of other useful objects, and who have a noble history extending back 3,000 years haven’t yet worked out that a pair of knitting needles is no way to capture food? —–Bill Bryson
• Food without wine is a corpse; wine without food is a ghost; united and well mitched they are as body and soul, living partners. —-Andre Simon
• What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others. —--Lucretius
• I went into a McDonald’s yesterday and said, ‘I’d like some fries.’ The girl at the counter said, ‘Would you like some fries with that? —–Jay Leno
• I have 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
• Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all. —--Harriet Van Horne
• A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you have that basis, that’s when cuisine is truly exciting. —–Charlie Trotter
• The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for the steak to cook. —Julia Child
• A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek. ——Samuel Johnson
• Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly. —-M. F. K. Fisher
• Fish, to taste right, must swim three times – in water, in butter and in wine. —–Polish proverb

Funny Food Quotes

• Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first. – Ernestine Ulmer
• Eating and sleeping are a waste of time. – Gerald Rudolph Ford
• Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it. – Helen Rowland
• Here is bread, which strengthens man’s heart, and therefore is called the staff of Life. – Matthew
• Three-quarters of the world’s population doesn’t have enough to eat! – Helen Reddy
• Life is half delicious yogurt, half crap, and your job is to keep the plastic spoon in the yogurt. – Scott Adams.
• I’ve run more risk eating my way across the country than in all my driving. – Duncan Hines
• I’m vegetarian and love proper home cooked food, the stuff they have available is no good! – Alek Wek
• A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch. – James Beard
• It’s so beautifully arranged on the plate – you know someone’s fingers have been all over it. – Julia Child
• When you fast… your Father shall reward you openly. – Matthew
• Heart disease has changed my eating habits, but I still cook bacon for the smell. – George Carlin
• So hungry I could eat a horse. Proverb
• If there was no love, one would have only lived to eat and showoff. – Billy

Good Food Quotes

• I wasn’t there. The children were with their aunt. My daughter had been cooking something on the stove and they left the house with the food still cooking. – Kimberly Harrison
• I don’t even butter my bread; I consider that cooking. – Katherine Cebrian
• God sends meat, and the Devil sends cooks. – John Taylo
• I have a good collection of cookery books. This is not so much because I like cooking, but because I like eating. – Louise Brown
• There is no love sincerer than the love of food. – George Bernard Shaw
• The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go she went. – Saki
• When I came into the business, things changed a lot, and my life was in a real state of flux.
• Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction. – John Cage
• I wanted representatives from around our fence-line. – Jeff
• In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport. – Julia Child
• Good painting is like good cooking: it can be tasted, but not explained. – Vlaminck, Maurice de
• Always start out with a larger pot than what you think you need. – Julia Child
• If you’re happy, you eat. If you’re sad, you eat. You lose a job, you eat. You get a job, you eat. It’s, you know, it’s addiction. – Barbara Cook
• If people take the trouble to cook, you should take the trouble to eat. – Robert Morley

Cooking Quotes

• I like children – fried. WC Fields.
• Adam was but human-this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple’s sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. – Mark Twain
• Eat little, sleep sound. Nice Word by Iranian Proverb
• Anything is good if it’s made of chocolate. – Jo Brand
• Dieting: A system of starving yourself to death so you can live a little longer. – Jan Murray
• One should never ever Trust a skinny cook.
• So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being. – Franz Kafka
• I cook with wine. Sometimes I even add it to the food. – W.C. Fields
• If you live on donuts, rest assured you will not do well. – Cdin
• I got food poisoning today. I don’t know when I’ll use it. – Steven Wright
• Hunger: One of the few cravings that cannot be appeased with another solution. – Irwin Van Grove
• Empty wine bottles have a bad opinion of women. – Ambrose Bierce
• When baking, follow directions. When cooking, go by your own taste. – Laiko Bahrs
• Nothing helps scenery like bacon and eggs. – Mark Twain
• I’ve realized you can use a fork as a spoon if you use it rapidly enough.

Eating Quotes

• Dr. Samuel Johnson – “A cucumber should be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out, as good for nothing.”
• The act of putting into your mouth what the earth has grown is perhaps your most direct interaction with the earth. – Frances Moore Lappé
• The way you cut your meat reflects the way you live. – Confucius
• A good, honest, wholesome, hungry breakfast. – Izaak Walton
• Health food makes me sick. – Calvin Trillin
• How can you eat anything with eyes? – Kellogg, Will
• It was a brave man that ate the first oyster.
• I’m getting so old, I don’t even buy green bananas anymore.” – Chi Chi Rodriguez
• Practice safe eating – always use condiments. – Anon
• A dinner lubricates business. – Lord William Sowell
• Melon is a good fruit: you eat, you drink, you wash your face. – Enrico Caruso
• A hot dog at the ball park is better than steak at the Ritz. – Humphrey Bogart
• I am not a glutton – I am an explorer of food. – Erma Bombeck
• Rich, fatty foods are like destiny: they too, shape our ends. – Author Unknown

Food Quotes

• Food is our common ground, a universal experience. – James Beard
• Food is so easy and hardly a battle field nowadays: it all goes down with the other “divertissement”. – Guy Van Belle
• On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners. – Mikes
• I just hate health food. – Julia Child
• Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me. – Sarah Bernhardt
• All I’m saying is that there is a price to be paid at the sharp end.. environmentally and everywhere else.. for the food that is produced in a particular way. – Prince Charles
• Food was a constant topic of conversation in our household. – Paul Lynde
• All I really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt! – Charles M. Schulz:
• I don’t really have dinner parties because I’m not a great cook. – Owen Wilson
• If you’re going to America, bring your own food. – Fran Lebowitz
• All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast. – John Gunther
• One must eat to live, not live to eat. – Moliere
• A dog knows the places he is thrown food. – African Proverb

Best Food Quotes

• It’s amazing how pervasive food is. Every second commercial is for food. Every second TV episode takes place around a meal. In the city, you can’t go ten feet without seeing or smelling a restaurant. There are 20 foot high hamburgers up on billboards. I am acutely aware of food, and its omnipresence is astounding. —–Adam Scott, The Monkey Chow Diaries
• Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside. —Mark Twain
• My mother didn’t really cook. But she did make key lime pie, until the day the top of the evaporated milk container accidentally ended up in the pie and she decided cooking took too much concentration.— William Norwich
• Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food. —-George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
• I do not like broccoli. And I haven’t liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. I am President of the United States, and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli. —–Bush, George
• I doubt whether the world holds for any one a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice cream. —–Heywood Broun
• No soldier can fight properly unless he is properly fed on beef and beer. —Duke of Marlborough
• If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. —–J. R. R. Tolkien
• In terms of fast food and deep understanding of the culture of fast food, I’m your man. —–Bill Gates
• I feel a recipe is only a theme, which an intelligent cook can play each time with a variation. —–Madam Benoit
• They eat the dainty food of famous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman’s octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach. —–Luigi Barzini
• I like my coffee like I like my women. In a plastic cup. —-Eddie Izzard
• A cure for War? Furiously spending the same daily amount of money toward making friends. Being an indispensable source of food, shelter, peace, and cultural support dedicatedly spending 9 billion dollars a month on helping people would be a formidable ene. —– Vanna Bonta
• Older people shouldn`t eat health food, they need all the preservatives they can get. ——Robert Orben

• Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody. —–Samuel Pepys
  49. We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink. —Epicurus, ancient Greek philosopher
• One of the delights of life is eating with friends, second to that is talking about eating. And, for an unsurpassed double whammy, there is talking about eating while you are eating with friends. —Laurie Colwin
• A good meal ought to begin with hunger. —— French proverb
• Some people have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind my belly very studiously, and very carefully; for I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else. —–Samuel Johnson
• There is no sincerer love than the love of food. —–George Bernard Shaw
• I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There’s no pleasure worth foregoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward. —–John Mortimer
• I’ve been on a constant diet for the last two decades. I’ve lost a total of 789 pounds. By all accounts, I should be hanging from a charm bracelet. —– Erma Bombeck
• Old people shouldn’t eat health foods. They need all the preservatives they can get. —– Robert Orben
• A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand. —-Barbara Johnson, author and comedian
• Dinner, a time when . . . one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely. —- W. Somerset Maugham
• I told my doctor I get very tired when I go on a diet, so he gave me pep pills. Know what happened? I ate faster. —– Joe E. Lewis
• Nobody seems more obsessed by diet than our anti-materialistic, otherworldly, New Age spiritual types. But if the material world is merely illusion, an honest guru should be as content with Budweiser and bratwurst as with raw carrot juice, tofu and seaweed slime. —Edward Abbey
• Laughter is brightest where food is best. —-Irish Proverb

• Always eat grapes downward – that is eat the best grapes first; in this way there will be none better left on the bunch, and each grape will seem good down to the last. If you eat the other way, you will not have a good grape in the lot. —-Samuel Butler
• A smiling face is half the meal. —- Latvian proverb
• You don’t have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces – just good food from fresh ingredients. —-Julia Child
• At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
  W. Somerset Maugham
• Nouvelle Cuisine, roughly translated, means: I can’t believe I paid ninety-six dollars and I’m still hungry. —– Mike Kalin
• I’ll bet what motivated the British to colonize so much of the world is that they were just looking for a decent meal. —-Martha Harrison
• The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life. —– Cyril Connolly
• Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness. —-Sir Robert Hutchinson
• Cuisine is only about making foods taste the way they are supposed to taste. —–Charlie Trotte
• Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you, and be silent. —-Epictetus
• Food is the most primitive form of comfort. —-Sheila Graham
• I prefer to regard a dessert as I would imagine the perfect woman: subtle, a little bittersweet, not blowsy and extrovert. Delicately made up, not highly rouged. Holding back, not exposing everything and, of course, with a flavor that lasts. —–Graham Kerr
• For the first time I know what it is to eat. I have gained four pounds. I get frantically hungry, and the food I eat gives me a lingering pleasure. I never ate before in this deep carnal way… I want to bite into life and to be torn by it. ——Anaïs Nin
• There is no love sincerer than the love of food. —–George Bernard Shaw

• Enchant, stay beautiful and graceful, but do this, eat well. Bring the same consideration to the preparation of your food as you devote to your appearance. Let your dinner be a poem, like your dress. ——Charles Pierre Monselet,French journalist
• The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. —– Lucille Ball
• The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse. —–Jules Renard
• What is food to one, is to others bitter poison. —–Lucretius
• The devil hides in every credit card and cheese cake. —-John Smith
• Eggs Benedict is genius. Its eggs covered in eggs. I mean, come on, that person should be the president. —–Wylie Dufresne
• There is nothing like a plate or a bowl of hot soup, it’s wisp of aromatic steam making the nostrils quiver with anticipation, to dispel the depressing effects of a grueling day at the office or the shop, rain or snow in the streets, or bad news in the papers. —–Louis P. De Gouy, The Soup Book
• Eating with the fullest pleasure – pleasure, that is, that does not depend on ignorance – is perhaps the profoundest enactment of our connection with the world. In this pleasure we experience and celebrate our dependence and our gratitude, for we are living from mystery, from creatures we did not make and powers we cannot comprehend. —–Wendell Berry
• If junk food is the devil, then a sweet orange is as scripture. —–Audrey Foris
• Good food ends with good talk. —–Geoffrey Neighor
• Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know. —-John Keats
• I feel a recipe is only a theme, which an intelligent cook can play each time with a variation. —-~ Madame Benoit
• It’s a very odd thing As odd as can be That whatever Miss T. eats Turns into Miss T. —- Walter de la Mare
• After violent emotion most people and all boys demand food. —-Rudyard Kipling