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Quotes About Food

I get way too much happiness from good food.
~ Elizabeth Olsen
I said to my friends that if I was going to starve, I might as well starve where the food is good.
~ Virgil Thomson
A loaf of bread, the Walrus said, Is what we chiefly need: Pepper and vinegar besides Are very good indeed-- Now if you're ready, Oysters, dear, We can begin to feed!
~ Lewis Carroll
Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.
~ Ludwig van Beethoven
It matters not how simple the food - a chop, steak or a plain boiled or roast joint, but let it be of good quality and properly cooked, and everyone who partakes of it will enjoy it.
~ Alexis Soyer
I don't want to spend my life not having good food going into my pie hole. That hole was made for pies.
~ Paula Deen
Patience is the secret to good food.
~ Gail Simmons
I like food. I like eating. And I don't want to deprive myself of good food.
~ Sarah Michelle Gellar
Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
You have to eat to cook. You can't be a good cook and be a noneater. I think eating is the secret to good cooking.
~ Julia Child
It's easy to impress me. I don't need a fancy party to be happy. Just good friends, good food, and good laughs. I'm happy. I'm satisfied. I'm content.
~ Maria Sharapova
Biofuels such as ethanol require enormous amounts of cropland and end up displacing either food crops or natural wilderness, neither of which is good.
~ Elon Musk
If time, so fleeting, must like humans die, let it be filled with good food and good talk, and then embalmed in the perfumes of conviviality.
~ M. F. K. Fisher
Conventional agriculture has never succeeded in feeding the world, and it's never produced anything good to eat. For the future, we need to look toward alternatives.
~ Dan Barber
We cannot bring the good old days back but, if we must eat mass-made foods, get laws passed to insist upon its goodness and purity.
~ Flora Thompson
If you're not in a good mood, the only thing you should make is a reservation.
~ Carla Hall
I feel if I'm healthy and happy, I look good. With a good mixture of fitness and healthy food I always feel great!
~ Candice Swanepoel
If you like good ol' fashion Southern soul food then, yes, I am a good cook! My specialty is chicken dumplings and poke salad.
~ Dolly Parton
For those of you who like to scarf your popcorn in the sack, the good news is that Newman's Own contains an aphrodisiac.
~ Paul Newman
Good food depends almost entirely on good ingredients.
~ Alice Waters
Bacon is so good by itself that to put it in any other food is an admission of failure. You're basically saying, 'I can't make this other food taste good, so I'll throw in bacon.'
~ Penn Jillette
I am thankful I was born in America, although if I gain any more weight the burqa thing may start to seem like a good idea to me. See? Another plus about America, you can always find some food.
~ Elayne Boosler
You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn't throw up, you weren't late, you weren't nauseated by the food. So you are grateful.
~ Paul Theroux
When I travel I normally eat club sandwiches or I bring my own food. When you go into a new town, it's very had to find a good place to eat.
~ Paul Prudhomme