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Quotes About Food

Great food, like all art, enhances and reflects a community's vitality, growth and solidarity. Yet history bears witness that great cuisines spring only from healthy local agriculture.
~ Rick Bayless
You have an impeccable argument if you said that Singapore, Hong Kong, and Tokyo are food capitals. They have a maximum amount of great stuff to eat in the smallest areas.
~ Anthony Bourdain
The best food is in Chicago. There are great restaurants everywhere, from fancy places to burger joints.
~ Steve Carell
I want Americans to enjoy food. I want them to celebrate food. I want them to, on occasions, to have big cakes and great things. And I want them to indulge.
~ Jamie Oliver
That's one of the great things about Thanksgiving: Football's on!
~ Michael Strahan
Not only is it a great concept and a great idea -- helping people -- it's good pizza too!
~ Matt Lauer
I was surprised by how much I loved Portland. It is so wonderfully creative without being artsy. Great food scene.
~ Sloane Crosley
Hong Kong is a wonderful, mixed-up town where you've got great food and adventure. First and foremost, it's a great place to experience China in a relatively accessible way.
~ Anthony Bourdain
Great wine is always enhanced by great food.
~ Kenneth Cranham
I like a quiet evening with family or friends over, great food and great discussion and a lot of laughter. That's really what I think fills my tank.
~ Anna Eshoo
I want great food and wine, and friends to enjoy it all.
~ Ivana Trump
Italy has great food and Barcelona has great energy.
~ Stefon Harris
When I'm working, I need to be pretty disciplined, but I do like to enjoy my food. I like to keep it fresh and wholesome. Preparing your own food can be a great way to unwind.
~ Julia Stiles
Original, in French: La bonne cuisine est la base du véritable bonheur. English: Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness.
~ Auguste Escoffier
Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness.
~ Auguste Escoffier
Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.
~ Jane Austen
Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.
~ Elsa Schiapirelli
We thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well being and delight.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Do not, as you value the health and happiness of those who sit at your table, place before them hot leavened bread or biscuit.
~ Sarah Josepha Hale
And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.
~ Honore de Balzac
Happiness rarely keeps company with an empty stomach
~ Helen Keller
There's less need to slowly acclimate these guys to the tank, " Bailey said. "They'll be food pretty soon, so their happiness is less important than the shark's.
~ Dave Eggers, The Circle
People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health, and are treated by the health industry, which pays no attention to food.
~ Wendell Berry
The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.
~ Hippocrates