Food Quotes · Page 422

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.

— Bob Hope

I don't hate oatmeal raisin, but it is the worst cookie. Profoundly disappointing.

— Brett Gelman

“Communism will kill you quicker than a maraschino cherry ever will.”

— Stephan Eirik Clark

“I pinned her with my weight (thank God for that box of cupcakes I'd eaten earlier).”

— J.L. Weil

She did not so much cook as assassinate food.

— Storm Jameson

“First you eats you food, then you plays with you ball and you friends.”

— Atticus Lish

If acting doesn't work out, I'm probably going to be a professional chef.

— Haley Bennett

I am very, very proud of my ability as a cook.

— Anna Held

Preserve and treat food as you would your body, remembering that in time food will be your body.

— Benjamin Ward Richardson

You know what’s more insane than [slaughterhouses]? Meat eaters. Walking around, acting like their lifestyle isn’t causing any harm.

— Gary Yourofsky

“Juices of fruits and vegetables are pure gifts from Mother Nature and the most natural way to heal your body and make…

— Farnoosh Brock

France must be an example to the world in the quality of its food, starting with its children,

— Bruno Le Maire

Eating more consciously now feels like a way of being. I actually think about how my food got to my plate.

— Oprah Winfrey

Being Italian, I have a very special relationship with the culinary arts. One my projects was to share Italian cultural food with…

— Luca Parmitano

For me, there's something likable but not quite lovable about poached fish: the ultraclean flavor, the melt-away texture, the no-fat virtuousness.

— Jonathan Miles

Chipotles, which are dried jalapeno peppers, give out a terrific smoky flavour - they're warm, earthy and usually not too spicy.

— Yotam Ottolenghi

My mom is a beautiful, amazing woman. We didn't have a ton of money growing up, and even, at one point, we…

— Jessie James Decker

I think that the American diet is a very large part of the reason we're spending 2.3 trillion dollar per year on…

— Michael Pollan

I think a lot of food shows, especially when we started 'Good Eats' back in the late '90s, they were still really…

— Alton Brown

As incisively pointed out in the documentary Food Inc.," an overwhelmingly large percentage of "new," healthy," and "organic" alternative food products are…

— Anthony Bourdain

I am a bit of a gourmet chef. I love cooking mostly Thai food. And a lot of times on movies, you…

— Will Ferrell

After writing 'The Omnivore's Dilemma,' I wanted to write a book that got past the choir, that got to people who didn't…

— Michael Pollan

“If one is cheerful, carefree or contented, the role of diet loses much of its significance, because such people can digest practically…

— Om Swami

Repetition is the mother of perfection. If there is true perfection, it's about doing something over and over again. I truly think…

— Thomas Keller

I don't eat vegetables. I only eat food like cheeseburgers, Spam, hot dogs and pizza.

— Art Donovan

“I don't like food. I LOVE it. If I don't love it, I don't swallow.”

— Anonymous

England is merely an island of beef swimming in a warm gulf stream of gravy.

— Katherine Mansfield

Not always the fanciest cake that's there Is the best to eat!

— Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.

— Samuel Johnson

If thou tastest a crust of bread, thou tastest all the stars and all the heavens.

— Robert Browning

I can describe to you the taste of government cheese.

— John Scalzi

I have a sweet tooth the size of Connecticut. It's a problem.

— Jennifer Nettles

It's more intimate. Food can connect people in a forever sort of way.

— Giada De Laurentiis

I love food, and the food industry is huge, and I just love dealing in it.

— Chubby Checker

I can't eat spaghetti. There's too many of them.

— Mitch Hedberg

Atlanta's a great city to cultivate your own thing - from fashion to music to food.

— Brian Tyree Henry

Putting good foods into kids' bodies puts me at peace and makes me really happy.

— Ayesha Curry

I think our go-to comfort foods reveal so much about our backgrounds.

— Celine Song

“Cooking isn't like a tired marriage, it's like a passionate affair.”

— The Hundred-Foot Journey

Asking people about their first food memories can be illuminating.

— Melissa Leong