Food Quotes · Page 179

We don't care to eat toadstools that think they are truffles.

— Mark Twain

“He liked radical politics and had a fondness for chocolate.”

— Laura Kinsale

I like cooking, but I think someone else ought to do the dishes.

— Jamaica Kincaid

If it has a shelf life longer than you, don't eat it.

— Kris Carr

I cook as much as I eat, and I like the aroma that comes out of a kitchen.

— Pooja Bhatt

As a kid, I got three meals a day. Oatmeal, miss-a-meal and no meal.

— Mr. T

You really can eat well in England - if you have the money.

— Claudio Ranieri

Of what value is a civilization that can't toast a piece of bread as ordered?

— Haruki Murakami

“Sam and Bill and I would cut a hole in a watermelon and fill it with rum so Jimmy didn’t know we…

— Charles Brandt

Chay and I have a very normal approach to things, from writing our provision list to deciding the menu for dinner to…

— Samantha Akkineni

“One of the leading causes of obesity is the misbelief that, when it comes to juice, ‘100%’ means ‘sugar-free.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

One man's trash is another man's treasure, and the by-product from one food can be perfect for making another.

— Yotam Ottolenghi

My go-to source for beans is Rancho Gordo, which cultivates heirloom beans and offers resources and recipes.

— Jamelle Bouie

People are like chocolates. Some soft centered, some hard, and some are just plain nutty.

— Anonymous

Salt is the policeman of taste: it keeps the various flavors of a dish in order and restrains the stronger from tyrannizing…

— Margaret Visser

Well, even to this day, if I smell a Big Mac, I'm like Pavlov's dog. My mouth starts watering immediately, like, 'Man,…

— Morgan Spurlock

Of course we do not live in order to eat, but it is not really true to say that we eat in…

— Emmanuel Levinas

I still like sweets and sometimes treat myself but not often. I try to keep an eye on it, but it's not…

— Petra Kvitova

“The question is: will I get used to a menu with kilojoules instead of calories? I mean, I don’t think anyone even…

— Elle Lothlorien

My favorite Hodo Soy product is the firm tofu, a dense cryovac-ed block that isn't packed in water like most store-bought tofu…

— Chris Morocco

When I learned that flour pound for pound has as many calories as sugar, and that when eating pasta you're basically eating…

— Caitlin Moran

“Meat Glaze (demi-glace) It’s handy to have meat glaze for thickening a pan sauce and giving it body. You can make your…

— James Peterson

My family makes these vinegars - out of everything from grapes to peaches and cherries. We go through the whole process with…

— Mario Batali

A great scale should be accurate first and foremost, but also easy to clean, intuitively designed, simple to read, and convenient to…

— Sohla El-Waylly

I rely on a lot of green drinks to get my vegetables.

— Tim Tebow

The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.

— George Bernard Shaw

My favorite kind of fast food is definitely Mexican.

— Lucas Cruikshank

The appetite is sharpened by the first bites.

— Jose Rizal

“Rule number one when cooking: never believe the recipe.”

— Anissa Rafeh

They say hot dogs can kill you. How do you know it's not the bun?

— Jay Leno

Now what we doing with it? You keep opening ya grill, I'm barbecuing with it.

— Lil Wayne

My passion for writing cookbooks really came from my love of collecting cookbooks.

— Wolfgang Puck

I love melon! I don't love melon; that's a bit... Melon's my favorite fruit.

— Paolo Nutini

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

— Francis Bacon

Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I believe gelato is meant to be treated as medicine and taken daily as a prescription.

— Betsy Brandt

[I love] anything chocolate, anytime, anywhere.

— Sean Sasser

I hope to use food as a way to connect with people.

— Damaris Phillips

I always had a fantasy of being a chef, because I like kitchen life.

— Geoffrey Rush

I did a diet once and it was awful and made me miserable - I would never do it again.

— Rochelle Humes