Age Quote by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Eating is our earliest metaphor, preceding our consciousness of gender difference, race, nationality, and language. We eat before we talk.

— Margaret Atwood

The first meal was an object lesson of much variety. My father produced several kinds of food, ready to eat, without any cooking, from…

— Mary Antin

A meal is a when you eat something that incorporates multiple food groups.

— Harley Pasternak

“Yes, men and women eat meals. But they also ingest nutrients. They grind and sculpt them into a moistened bolus that is delivered, via…

— Mary Roach

“In its essence, a meal is a creative act that has its genesis in the mind of someone who cares enough to plan it,…

— Andi Ashworth

I understood food from a very early age. I understood the combination of ingredients very early.

— Gino D'Acampo

A meal can be thought of as a ritual and a work of art, with limits laid down, desires aroused and fulfilled, enticements, variety,…

— Margaret Visser

Food is all about the story of a people through the ages.

— Lidia Bastianich

Eating is an agricultural act. Eating ends the annual drama of the food economy that begins with planting and birth. Most eaters, however, are…

— Wendell Berry

Food is "everyday"-it has to be, or we would not survive for long. But food is never just something to eat. It is something…

— Margaret Visser

Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me. The perfect meal,…

— Anthony Bourdain

The shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of fueling the body to a ritual of family and community, from the mere animal…

— Michael Pollan