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Quotes About Food

Be curious, learn and read as much as you can about food. Don't worry about making money. Focus on learning at various venues before you settle down for a steady position.
~ Rocco DiSpirito
One of the important requirements for learning how to cook is that you also learn how to eat.
~ Julia Child
Food is so fundamental, more so than sexuality, aggression, or learning, that it is astounding to realize the neglect of food and eating in depth psychology.
~ James Hillman
Students can do experiments and investigate for themselves what's going on in restaurants, in our food system, and begin a process of learning.
~ Eric Schlosser
I had decided I wanted to write about food, and I knew the only way to do that is to speak with authority, which meant learning the language and knowing what that experience is like.
~ Gail Simmons
Life is too short for cuisine minceur and for diets. Dietetic meals are like an opera without the orchestra.
~ Paul Bocuse
Life is a nacho. It can be yummy-crunchy or squishy-yucky. It just depends on how long it takes for you to start eating it.
~ John Updike
Life is a combination of magic and pasta.
~ Federico Fellini
Anyone who gives you a cinnamon roll fresh out of the oven is a friend for life.
~ Daniel Handler
Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.
~ Douglas Adams
One of the greatest pleasures of my life has been that I have never stopped learning about Good Cooking and Good Food
~ Edna Lewis
Becoming food savvy is one thing, but it's amazing how fast savvy turns to snooty, and snooty leaves you preparing three-hour meals that break your budget and that the kids won't even eat.
~ Jeffrey Kluger
Turning a corner, she encountered the smell of fried chicken. One of the test kitchens had been working on a new product for a fast-food client, developing a proprietary sauce for a new kind of sandwich to compete with one KFC had recently brought to market. It had no bun, but rather two pressed chicken segments deep-fried in a shortening of processed lard and beef fat, wrapped around thick shingled bacon and a slice of provolone, and smothered in this hydrogenated oil-based sauce.
~ Jeffrey Stepakoff
I thought cobblers just ate shoe leather" Jocelyn says as she and her shadow dance by us. I've had enough of this one. "I never have, but if you want to try leather, I'm happy to shove some down your throat.
~ Jen Calonita
She got mad and sent me to bed with one supper instead of the usual three.
~ Jen Calonita
Anne and I were imbibing our second dirty martinis, and she'd ordered hazelnut-encrusted salmon and goat cheese salad while I'd asked for the macaroni with three cheeses and Dungeness crab, comfort food for the well heeled, or those with a paying sister.
~ Jennie Shortridge
My best hostess tip is to have good food and really good music! We usually put on the Charlie Brown Christmas album. That's my favorite.
~ Jennifer Aniston
At last the meal was ready to go up, the cream of carrot soup resting in its tureen; the fish pale in its butter sauce; the beef proudly browned and crackling with heat, its sauce of wine, demi-glace, and shallots poured around its base; the potatoes crisp; the greens resting in a bowl with a light sprinkling of a wine and lemon sauce; the lemon tart to be set on the sideboard for after
~ Jennifer Ashley
You've lived in America for twenty years. Eat badly, damn it.
~ Jennifer Crusie
Yeah. Sure. My brother's dead. My mother's insane. Hey, let's have a crepe.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
An hour later, we were full of pizza and I love him a little more.
~ Jennifer Echols
I don't find it a struggle to maintain a healthy diet now as my palate has changed. I don't crave rich food.
~ Jennifer Ellison
I wasn't a woman who stayed tiny like I thought I would. I definitely gave myself the freedom to eat what I wanted.
~ Jennifer Garner
I'm allergic to food. Every time I eat it breaks out into fat.
~ Jennifer Greene Duncan