"Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it."
— Mark Twain

"Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch."
— Orson Welles

"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. "
— Virginia Woolf (A Room of One's Own)

"Wait. Why am I thinking about Krispy Kremes? We’re supposed to be exercising."
— Meg Cabot (Big Boned)

"I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food."
— W.C. Fields

"Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside."
— Mark Twain

"I am not a glutton - I am an explorer of food"
— Erma Bombeck

"The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook."
— Julia Child

"There is no love sincerer than the love of food."
— George Bernard Shaw (Man and Superman)

"What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes,
he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow."
— A.A. Milne

"The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found."
— Calvin Trillin

"After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relatives."
— Oscar Wilde

"How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?"
— Charles de Gaulle

"Anything is good if it's made of chocolate."
— Jo Brand

"You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans. "
— Ronald Reagan

"Ice-cream is exquisite.
What a pity it isn't illegal."
— Voltaire

"You can't just eat good food. You've got to talk about it too. And you've got to talk about it to somebody who understands that kind of food."
— Kurt Vonnegut (Jailbird)

"The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude."
— Julia Child

"I like a cook who smiles out loud when he tastes his own work.
Let God worry about your modesty; I want to see your enthusiasm."
— Robert Farrar Capon

"Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist."
— G.K. Chesterton

"Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cream makes it Russian; lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese; garlic makes it good."
— Alice May Brock

"Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education."
— Mark Twain

"I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regretted
most of them, but never the potatoes that went with them."
— Nora Ephron

"A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness."
— Elsa Schiaparelli

"As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans."
— Ernest Hemingway (A Moveable Feast)

"If a plant has an effect on the body it's because it's got chemicals in it. And if it doesn't, then it's not medicine, it's salad."
— Matt Kirshen

"Sex is good, but not as good as fresh sweet corn."
— Garrison Keillor

"No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, the wisdom of cookbook writers."
— Laurie Colwin

"The preparation of good food is merely another expression of art, one of the joys of civilized living…"
— Dione Lucas

"All sorrows are less with bread. "
— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

"A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch. "
— James Beard

"The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness
of the human race than the discovery of a star."
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

"Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion."
— Ambrose Bierce

"It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others. So it happens that when I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and the hunger for it… and then the warmth and richness and fine reality of hunger satisfied… and it is all one."
— M. F. K. Fisher (The Art of Eating)

"Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.
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— M. F. K. Fisher

"He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise."
— Henry David Thoreau

"Health food makes me sick."
— Calvin Trillin

"The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight...

[Breadmaking is] one of those almost hypnotic businesses, like a dance from some ancient ceremony. It leaves you filled with one of the world's sweetest smells... there is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of
meditation in a music-throbbing chapel. that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread."
— M. F. K. Fisher (The Art of Eating)

"Food, like a loving touch or a glimpse of divine power,
has that ability to comfort."
— Norman Kolpas

"Cooking is an art and patience a virtue... Careful shopping, fresh
ingredients and an unhurried approach are nearly all you need. There is one more thing - love. Love for food and love for those you invite to your table. With a combination of these things you can be an artist - not perhaps in the representational style of a Dutch master, but rather more like Gauguin, the naïve, or Van Gogh,
the impressionist. Plates or pictures of sunshine taste of happiness and love."
— Keith Floyd

"There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The gentle art of gastronomy is a friendly one. It hurdles the language barrier, makes friends among civilized people, and warms the heart."
— Samuel V. Chamberlain

"Unless you thought that Jews just couldn't eat bacon, like pork disagrees with us...Moses came down the mountain with dietary advice. 'People of Israel! You can, but I wouldn't.'"
— Matt Kirshen

"A human being is primarily a bag for putting food into; the other functions and faculties may be more godlike, but in point of time they come afterwards. A man dies and is buried, and all his words and actions are forgotten, but the food he has eaten lives after him in the sound or rotten bones of his children. I think it could be plausibly argued that changes of diet are more important than changes of dynasty or even of religion....Yet it is curious how seldom the all-importance of food is recognized. You see statues everywhere to politicians, poets, bishops, but none to cooks or bacon-curers or market gardeners."
— George Orwell (The Road to Wigan Pier)

"Red onions are especially divine. I hold a slice up to the sunlight pouring in through the kitchen window, and it glows like a fine piece of antique glass. Cool watery-white with layers delicately edged with imperial purple...strong, humble, peaceful...with that fiery nub of spring green in the center..."
— Mary Hayes-Grieco (Kitchen Mystic: Spiritual Lessons Hidden in Everyday Life)

"Nothing rekindles my spirits, gives comfort to my heart and mind, more than a visit to Mississippi... and to be regaled as I often have been, with a platter of fried chicken, field peas, collard greens, fresh corn on the cob, sliced tomatoes with French dressing... and to top it all off with a wedge of freshly baked pecan pie."
— Craig Claiborne

"A good meal soothes the soul as it regenerates the body.
From the abundance of it flows a benign benevolence."
— Frederick W. Hackwood

"The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness
of the human race than the discovery of a star."
— Craig Claiborne