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Quotes About Food

Nothing stimulates the practiced cook's imagination like an egg.
~ Irma S. Rombauer
Eminent nutritionists have traded their independence for the food industry's favors.
~ Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal
No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.
~ Unknown
Home cooking. Where many a man thinks his wife is.
~ Jimmy Durante
With enough butter, anything is good
~ Julia Child
A baby-sitter is a teenager who gets two dollars an hour to eat five dollars' worth of your food.
~ Henny Youngman
The first thing you lose on a diet is brain mass.
~ Margaret Cho
Good intentions are not enough. They've never put an onion in the soup yet.
~ Sonya Levien
Short cycle business are being impacted by credit, and are being impacted by gasoline prices, food, distribution businesses, chemical business.
~ Jack Welch
You know why fish are so thin? They eat fish.
~ Jerry Seinfeld
Because of their cuisine, Germans don't consider farting rude. They'd certainly be out of luck if they did.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
In order to know whether a human being is young or old, offer it food of different kinds at short intervals. If young, it will eat anything at any hour of the day or night.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
What's the point of these demagogic campaigns if these hungry kids are still here on the road? All little ones deserve protection, food, love and peace.
~ Carla Perez
In a day a man needs only his daily bread.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Isn't corn like a meat or something?
~ my friend, 2015
Smelling the strong coffee and that sausage , and watching the potatoes as they turned crispy golden brown in the butter, made me hungrier than I'd been in months, and when the cheese began oozing out the sides of the puffy omelette, I really wondered for a minute how much longer I could keep torturing myself like this.
~ James Villas
I wanted to go to Italy because I was sad because my heart was broken, and I thought Italy would make me happy again because everything I would eat there would be delicious.
~ Jami Attenberg
I can't stand when a meal is ruined. I have slept with many men, don't ask me their names, but I can't eat anything casually. Don't fuck with my food, I want to say to him.
~ Jami Attenberg
All I ever wanted to do was to make food accessible to everyone to show that you can make mistakes - I do all the time - but it doesn't matter.
~ Jamie Oliver
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
If you only design menus that are essentially junk or fast food, the whole infrastructure supports junk.
~ Jamie Oliver
Heads know that failing to invest in good, nutritious food is a false economy and parents won't tolerate reconstituted turkey being put back on the menu.
~ Jamie Oliver
Just because the Americans are so good at rattling out accessible and cheap junk food, nobody looks twice when it comes to their food. But there are golden nuggets everywhere.
~ Jamie Oliver
What I've enjoyed most, though, is meeting people who have a real interest in food and sharing ideas with them. Good food is a global thing and I find that there is always something new and amazing to learn - I love it!
~ Jamie Oliver