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“I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“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

“Whoever thought a tiny candy bar should be called fun size was a moron.”
― Glenn Beck

“If you're afraid of butter, use cream.”
― Julia Child

“Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.”
― Craig Claiborne

“Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.”
― Sophia Loren

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

“Great restaurants are, of course, nothing but mouth-brothels. There is no point in going to them if one intends to keep one's belt buckled.”
― Frederic Raphael

“After a full belly all is poetry.”
― Frank McCourt

“To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.”
― François de la Rochefoucauld

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

“First we eat, then we do everything else.”
― M.F.K. Fisher

“Well let's face it, who on earth besides antique dealers and gay couples actually still give dinner parties?”
― Nigel Slater

“Food, a French man told me once, is the first wealth. Grow it right, and you feel insanely rich, no matter what you own.”
― Kristin Kimball (Author)

“One of the very best things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.”
― Luciano Pavarotti

“Original, in French: La bonne cuisine est la base du véritable bonheur.

English: Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness.”
― Auguste Escoffier