Food Quotes by Nora Ephron

My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered,…

— Nora Ephron

You can never have too much butter – that is my belief. If I have a religion, that's it,

— Nora Ephron

What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.

— Nora Ephron

Food became, for dinner parties in the sixties, what abstract expressionism had been in the fifties.

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What I love about cooking is that after a hard day, there is something comforting about the fact that if you melt…

— Nora Ephron

Some people pretend to like capers, but the truth is that any dish that tastes good with capers in it tastes even…

— Nora Ephron

Eat every meal as if it's your last; when the last one comes, you probably won't be very hungry.

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I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regretted most of them, but never the potatoes that went with…

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If there is a Nora Ephron signature anything it is that there's slightly too much food. I have a friend whose mantra…

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Every so often I would look at my women friends who were happily married and didn't cook, and I would always find…

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“The truth is, most of the genuinely tragic episodes of lost food are things that are somewhat outside the reach of the…

— Nora Ephron

“[S]ometimes, when you are a food person, the possible irrelevance of what you are doing doesn’t cross your mind until it’s too…

— Nora Ephron

What I love about cooking is that after a hard day, there is something comforting about the fact that if you melt…

— Nora Ephron

“A while back, my friend Graydon Carter mentioned that he was opening a restaurant in New York. I cautioned him against this,…

— Nora Ephron

Here are some questions I am constantly noodling over: Do you splurge or do you hoard? Do you live every day as…

— Nora Ephron

“The next man I was involved with lived in Boston. He taught me to cook mushrooms. He taught me that if you…

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Food is one of my favourite things. Though I certainly know lots of people who happen to be happily married who don't…

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I don't think any day is worth living without thinking about what you're going to eat next at all times.

— Nora Ephron