Quotes About Savoring

One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.

Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.

There are those people that eat to live and those that live to eat. I am of the latter, as many of you already know. To me, eating is an adventure.

But I don't want to read faster or older or any way else that might make the story disappear too quickly from where it's settling inside my brain, slowly becoming a part of me. A story I will remember long after I've read it for the second, third, tenth, hundredth time.

For every bad thing in life, mezcal. And... for every good thing, too.

Looking back at that evening was almost better than experiencing it the first time, because it did not go faster than I could manage it, I did not have to worry about my part, and I was not distracted by doubt, because I knew how it would come out. I relived it so often, it might have happened just so that I could relive it later.

SECRET #46 Hold on to the good parts for as long as you can.

It makes good times even better when you know they are going to end. Like grilled vegetables are better because some of them are partly soot.

Enjoy the experience, don't just experience the experience

I experience each moment like baklava: rich in this layer, and this layer, and this layer.

Not truly living in the present moment & later regretting is like closing your eyes when a peacock is dancing, only to want to see it dance once it is gone.

Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.

Eat dessert first in case you're going to choke to death on your b

Coffee should not be drunk in a hurry. It is the sister of time, and should be sipped slowly, slowly. Coffee is the sound of taste, a sound for the aroma. It is a meditation and a plunge into memories and the soul.

As with the future, it is not all at once but grain by grain that one savours the past.

Life is like a cup of ice cream. Even the last drop of ice cream is sweet and enjoyed by one who really likes and loves it.

Eating, loving, singing and digesting are, in truth, the four acts of the comic opera known as life, and they pass like bubbles of a bottle of champagne. Whoever lets them break without having enjoyed them is a complete fool.

Appreciate your life with greater intensity.

To know how to eat well, one must first know how to wait.

You can be miserable before you have a cookie and you can be miserable after you eat a cookie but you can't be miserable while you are eating a cookie.

I can't stand people that do not take food seriously.

Everyone eats and drinks; yet only few appreciate the taste of food.

Americans are just beginning to regard food the way the French always have. Dinner is not what you do in the evening before something else. Dinner is the evening.

If I'm a lush at anything, it's food and drink. I'm not materialistic in any way, but I value food.