Food Quotes · Page 562

Basically, though, I believe in eating well, not eating too much but eating a variety of foods.

— Joan Collins

Two women at a resort discussed dinner: "The food here is lousy," the first noted. "You're right! And such small portions!!" the…

— Groucho Marx

Almost any decent cook will make food by eye and taste. Virtually all of my family cooked that way.

— Steve Albini

If people are made to feel uncomfortable in the kitchen, they won't go in there. That's why I think children learning to…

— Giada De Laurentiis

I'm a big fan of Myron Mixon. I've read a couple of his books, and I've learned the little bit that I…

— Dale Earnhardt Jr

Every man, woman and child consumes, on average, 43 teaspoons of sugar a day. In 13 days, that adds up to a…

— John Mackey

My default-setting Italian recipes that I always fall back on are the ones that we had as kids, like spaghetti vongole, which…

— Tamzin Outhwaite

“Nicholas met with him earlier about some lumber deal and sent him here for lunch. He's evidently new in town and was…

— Melissa Jagears

In Paris and later in Marseille, I was surrounded by some of the best food in the world, and I had an…

— Julia Child

“Chloride is essential for digestion and in respiration. Without sodium, which the body cannot manufacture, the body would be unable to transport…

— Mark Kurlansky

I grew up in Italy, and our country is a country of great agriculture and food produce. It wasn't like I was…

— Isabella Rossellini

Because of my capacity for listening to strangers' tales, or the details of their lives, my patience with their food and their…

— Paul Theroux

“The nest is made of butter-poached mushrooms," Hampus was saying. Henry had been so busy fuming he'd missed Chef Martinet's first bite…

— Stephanie Kate Strohm

Fat people who want to reduce should take their exercise on an empty stomach and sit down to their food out of…

— Hippocrates

Once you get into fitness you do notice your diet and notice that certain foods don't quite agree with you. I don't…

— Jayne Middlemiss

I am going to learn to make bread tomorrow. So if you may imagine me with my sleeves rolled up, mixing flour,…

— Emily Dickinson

“Food is everything. It provides energy and strength to the elemental self; With knowing self; evolving side by side.”

— Gian Kumar

I'm not very good at eating fruit, so to make sure I get my five a day I often whiz up a…

— Denise Lewis

I am better off with vegetables at the bottom of my garden than with all the fairies of the Midsummer Night's Dream.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

I, personally, think there is a really danger of taking food too seriously. Food should be part of the bigger picture.

— Anthony Bourdain

I have an eating disorder. I be eatin DIS order of fries, and DIS order of nuggets, and DIS order of wings…

— Anonymous

An adult male living alone stops being a vaguely tragicomic bachelor once he is found in the circumstance of simultaneously taking a…

— Dean Allen

“I don't understand why asking people to eat a well-balanced, vegetarian diet is considered drastic, while it is medically conservative to cut…

— Dean Ornish M.D

A stomach that is seldom empty despises common food. [Lat., Jejunus raro stomachus vulgaria temnit.]

— Horace

There shouldn't be an announcement that divides our food between what tastes good and what is good for us.

— Marcus Samuelsson

Twas the night before Thanksgiving. All the food's in the oven. And I'm in the bedroom performin' self lovin'.

— Craig Ferguson

The truffle is not a positive aphrodisiac, but it can upon occasion make women tenderer and men more apt to love.

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

People say meat is bad for you but which? The meat you get at McDonald's? Or the local cow eating grass right…

— Erling Haaland

I think I can capture the taste buds of the average right-wing conservative who loves barbecue.

— Bobby Seale

Cooking might be the most important factor in fixing our public health crisis. It's the single most important thing you can do…

— Michael Pollan

I am as hungry now as I was when I began in the sport. If anything, I am probably a bit hungrier.…

— Allen Johnson

If you take cranberries and stew them like apple sauce, it tastes much more like prunes than rhubarb does.

— Groucho Marx

In Baltimore, soft crabs are always fried (or broiled) in the altogether, with maybe a small jock-strap of bacon added.

— H. L. Mencken

There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who love chocolate, and communists. . .

— Leslie Moak Murray

A growing body of research suggests that many of the health problems associated with eating beef are really problems with corn-fed beef.

— Michael Pollan

The point to keep in mind is that you don't lose fat because you cut calories; you lose fat because you cut…

— Gary Taubes

Eating ready-made meals is about being very passive, and actively cooking is something that nothing compares to.

— Yotam Ottolenghi

“We’re committed, as she gets older, to teaching her about her birth culture. And of course she already loves the rice. Actually,…

— Celeste Ng

In the hands of an able cook, fish can become an inexhaustible source of perpetual delight.

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

I can cook in front of millions of people on TV, I don't care. But cooking for my own family really freaked…

— Gino D'Acampo