Top food Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of food quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Anthony Bourdain
Understand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it - not just the sirloin but also all those wonderful tough little bits.
- Anthony Bourdain
Collection: Food
Image of David Mixner
My family lived off the land and summer evening meals featured baked stuffed tomatoes, potato salad, corn on the cob, fresh shelled peas and homemade ice cream with strawberries from our garden. With no air conditioning in those days, the cool porch was the center of our universe after the scorching days.
- David Mixner
Collection: Food
Image of Christopher Dodd
It's easy for Americans to forget that the food they eat doesn't magically appear on a supermarket shelf.
- Christopher Dodd
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Image of Tyra Banks
I love food and feel that it is something that should be enjoyed. I eat whatever I want. I just don't overeat.
- Tyra Banks
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Image of John Barrymore
I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning.
- John Barrymore
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Image of Fran Lebowitz
My favorite animal is steak.
- Fran Lebowitz
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Image of Mitch Hedberg
Fettucini alfredo is macaroni and cheese for adults.
- Mitch Hedberg
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Image of Jennifer Lee
I like to say, 'Chop suey's the biggest culinary joke that one culture has ever played on another,' because chop suey, if you translate into Chinese, means 'tsap sui,' which, if you translate back, means 'odds and ends.'
- Jennifer Lee
Collection: Food
Image of Tom Colicchio
I think steak is the ultimate comfort food, and if you're going out for one, that isn't the time to scrimp on calories or quality.
- Tom Colicchio
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Image of Jonathan Swift
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
- Jonathan Swift
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Image of John Walters
Too many people just eat to consume calories. Try dining for a change.
- John Walters
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Image of Daryl Hannah
That's a big goal of mine, to try and grow as much of my own food as possible.
- Daryl Hannah
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Image of Rachael Ray
I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days.
- Rachael Ray
Collection: Food
Image of Ina Garten
I love to take something ordinary and make it really special.
- Ina Garten
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Image of Jennifer Love Hewitt
I do love Italian food. Any kind of pasta or pizza. My new pig out food is Indian food. I eat Indian food like three times a week. It's so good.
- Jennifer Love Hewitt
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Image of Dylan Lauren
Every two months, I allow myself a splurge day where I eat thick, doughy pizza from Pizzeria Uno or an ice cream sundae from my store with birthday-cake ice cream, Marshmallow Fluff, and toppings mixed in.
- Dylan Lauren
Collection: Food
Image of M. F. K. Fisher
Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.
- M. F. K. Fisher
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Image of Jamie Oliver
Stop being a vegan and start enjoying what you eat.
- Jamie Oliver
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Image of Yotam Ottolenghi
I always preferred my father's pasta the next day, when he'd put it in a hot oven with heaps of extra cheese. It would emerge slightly burned and very crisp on top.
- Yotam Ottolenghi
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Image of Erma Bombeck
Never order food in excess of your body weight.
- Erma Bombeck
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Image of A. J. Liebling
An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.
- A. J. Liebling
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Image of Mario Batali
We would load up the yellow Cutlass Supreme station wagon and pick blackberries during blackberry season or spring onions during spring onion season. For us, food was part of the fabric of our day.
- Mario Batali
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Image of Benjamin Franklin
I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.
- Benjamin Franklin
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Image of Maya Angelou
The best comfort food will always be greens, cornbread, and fried chicken.
- Maya Angelou
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Image of George Bernard Shaw
Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.
- George Bernard Shaw
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Image of Michael Pollan
People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue.
- Michael Pollan
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Image of Woody Allen
I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead.
- Woody Allen
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Image of Julia Child
Animals that we eat are raised for food in the most economical way possible, and the serious food producers do it in the most humane way possible. I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages.
- Julia Child
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Image of Damon Wayans
The less food, the more time to talk, the more to talk about.
- Damon Wayans
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Image of Diane von Furstenberg
Italy will always have the best food.
- Diane von Furstenberg
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Image of Ronald Reagan
It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available.
- Ronald Reagan
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Image of Ted Nugent
My idea of fast food is a mallard.
- Ted Nugent
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Image of Vanessa Carlton
Food can become such a point of anxiety - not because it's food, but just because you have anxiety. That's how eating disorders develop.
- Vanessa Carlton
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Image of Erma Bombeck
Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.
- Erma Bombeck
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Image of Robert Mondavi
I always knew that food and wine were vital, with my mother being Italian and a good cook.
- Robert Mondavi
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Image of Calvin Trillin
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
- Calvin Trillin
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Image of Marilu Henner
I always say centered food equals centered behavior.
- Marilu Henner
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Image of Elayne Boosler
Ever notice that Soup for One is eight aisles away from Party Mix?
- Elayne Boosler
Collection: Food
Image of Giada De Laurentiis
Attitudes toward food have completely changed.
- Giada De Laurentiis
Collection: Food
Image of Fran Lebowitz
If you're going to America, bring your own food.
- Fran Lebowitz
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Image of Susan Lucci
I love spaghetti and meatballs... I eat a lot.
- Susan Lucci
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Image of Rachel McAdams
I'm not an amazing cook. But I can follow a recipe!
- Rachel McAdams
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Image of Douglas Horton
If food were free, why work?
- Douglas Horton
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Image of Dave Barry
Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling.
- Dave Barry
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Image of Sally Schneider
Confit is the ultimate comfort food, and trendy or not, it is dazzling stuff.
- Sally Schneider
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Image of Cristin Milioti
On my first date, my boyfriend asked me if I wanted to eat a la carte, and I said that I would prefer to stay inside!
- Cristin Milioti
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Image of Gene Simmons
Sugar-free ice pops are an invention of God. They hardly have any calories since they're mostly water. I eat about 15 pops every two days.
- Gene Simmons
Collection: Food
Image of Ezra Taft Benson
An almost forgotten means of economic self-reliance is the home production of food. We are too accustomed to going to stores and purchasing what we need.
- Ezra Taft Benson
Collection: Food
Image of Alan Alda
I love oatmeal. To me, it's not boring. I agree that ordinary oatmeal is very boring, but not the steel-cut Irish kind - the kind that pops in your mouth when you bite into it in little glorious bursts like a sort of gummy champagne.
- Alan Alda
Collection: Food
Image of Julia Barr
I know my husband really loves me because he takes me to have ribs. He says I'm the only girl he ever took out who actually ate anything on her plate, as opposed to pushing it around.
- Julia Barr
Collection: Food