15 Essential Food Quotes on Cooking, Eating, and Sharing: Foodie Underground

I have a few food quotes I always come back to. Words that remind me of why I love to make and eat food. Why I love to sharing food with others. We all have to eat; food is the building block of humanity.

If you need a little inspiration for cooking and sharing, this is it. Print them all out, hang them on the kitchen wall, and keep fighting the good food fight!

1. “Food is an important part of a balanced diet.” – Frank Lebowitz

2. “This evidence is overwhelming at this point. You eat more plants, you eat less other stuff, you live longer.” – Mark Bittman

3. “If you really want to make a friend, go to someone’s house and eat with him… the people who give you their food give you their heart.” – Cesar Chavez

4. “You don’t have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces — just good food from fresh ingredients.” – Julia Child

5. “If organic farming is the natural way, shouldn’t organic produce just be called “produce” and make the pesticide-laden stuff take the burden of an adjective?” – Ymber Delecto

6. “We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink.” – Epicurus

7. “If you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man’s hunger.” – Kahlil Gibran

8. “Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.” – Voltaire

9. “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” -Virginia Woolf

10. “What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?” – Lin Yutang

11. “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

12. “Laughter is brightest in the place where food is.” – Irish Proverb

13. “Let things taste the way they are.” – Alice Waters

14. “This magical, marvelous food on our plate, this sustenance we absorb, has a story to tell. It has a journey. It leaves a footprint. It leaves a legacy. To eat with reckless abandon, without conscience, without knowledge; folks, this ain’t normal.” – Joel Salatin

15. ““The food you eat can be either the safest and most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison.” – Ann Wigmore

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Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity. -Voltaire

Vegetables are a must on a diet.  I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie. -Jim Davis

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

I have long believed that good food, good eating is all about risk. Whether we’re talking about unpasteurized Stilton, raw oysters or working for organized crime “associates,” food, for me, has always been an adventure. -Anthony Bourdain

After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relatives. -Oscar Wilde

It’s difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato. -Lewis Grizzard

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. -Luciano Pavarotti

When baking, follow directions. When cooking, go by your own taste. -Laiko Bahrs

All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast. -John Gunther
We plan, we toil, we suffer – in the hope of what?  A camel-load of idol’s eyes? The title deeds of Radio City? The empire of Asia? A trip to the moon? No, no, no, no. Simply to wake just in time to smell coffee and bacon and eggs. -J.B. Priestly

There is no love sincerer than the love of food. -George Bernard Shaw

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

Life is a combination of magic and pasta. -Federico Fellini

Soup is just a way of screwing you out of a meal. -Jay Leno

The tradition of Italian cooking is that of the matriarch. This is the cooking of grandma. She didn’t waste time thinking too much about the celery. She got the best celery she could and then she dealt with it. -Mario Batali

Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all. -Harriet van Horne

A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe. -Thomas Keller

It’s so beautifully arranged on the plate – you know someone’s fingers have been all over it. -Julia Child

Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts! -James Beard
Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon. -Doug Larson

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. -Virginia Woolf

Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art. It requires instinct and taste rather than exact measurements. -Marcel Boulestin

I’ll bet what motivated the British to colonize so much of the world is that they were just looking for a decent meal. -Martha Harrison

Salt is born of the purest of parents: the sun and the sea. -Pythagoras

I prefer to regard a dessert as I would imagine the perfect woman: subtle, a little bittersweet, not blowsy and extrovert. Delicately made up, not highly rouged. Holding back, not exposing everything and, of course, with a flavor that lasts. -Graham Kerr

Great food is like great sex. The more you have the more you want. -Gael Greene

The belly rules the mind. -Spanish Proverb

For the first time I know what it is to eat. I have gained four pounds. I get frantically hungry, and the food I eat gives me a lingering pleasure. I never ate before in this deep carnal way… I want to bite into life and to be torn by it. -Anaïs Nin

Life is too short for self-hatred and celery sticks. -Marilyn Wann

Girl Shares Her Story Of A Seemingly Nice Guy She Met On Craigslist, Who Turned Out To Be Someone Else Entirely.

It's perhaps cliche at this point to warn about the supposed dangers of meeting people you found online. After all, dating apps are now so widely used that many of us probably hear more 'online dating success stories' than 'online dating creeper stories'. But things happen. No matter how unlikely, there are shady people out there.

Reddit user, 'throwaway-el26' shares one such story of a close call with a Craigslist meetup. Warning: this is a truly chilling story, and deals with some disturbing subject matter.

In 2007 I went on a date with a guy from Craigslist. I was 17 years old at the time.

A guy responded to an ad I had put up. He lived close to me, and so I emailed him back and gave him my number. He was actually one of the only ones who responded without a creepy message. His name was Jon and he was 26 years old.

This guy, Jon, and I, spoke for two days before meeting, and we met on a Friday night. We texted back and forth and he asked if I was single, I said yes. He asked what kind of food I liked to eat, because he wanted to take me to a restaurant. I asked him a few questions about himself, he told me he still lived with his mother but had the top floor to himself, and that he was a part time model that made good money. Judging by his picture him being a model was fairly believable.

So on Friday night Jon comes to pick me up. He drove a silver two door car, I want to say Ford. He popped me a message to say he was waiting outside, and after checking my hair and make up one last time I said goodbye to my parents, telling them I was heading out with friends, and left.

I got into Jon's car and noticed that he looked exactly like his photo – the tall dark and handsome type. He had pale skin with dark hair and dark eyes. He looked a little older in person but he made up for it with a snappy fashion sense. He looked cool, and cute.

He was incredibly kind, and his body language and smile totally put me at ease. Yes, it's really stupid to go on a date from Craigslist, but surprisingly this guy was normal. We chatted for a while as he started driving away from my home town, towards the highway. He wanted to drive us into the city to go to dinner, which wasn't too far – around a 25 minute journey. Jon started to reveal more details about himself to me on this journey – he told me he was embarrassed to tell me he lived with his mother, that I might think bad of him for not having his own place at his age. Jon got closer and closer to the highway and I can't tell you what it was, I won't make it up because I don't remember, but it wasn't anything remotely creepy, I just felt put off by him.

The most famous quotes about food

Read the food quotes below from famous people 

The most famous quotes about food

“If you’re afraid of butter, use cream.” -Julia Child

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

“Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first.” -Ernestine Ulmer

“Age and glasses of wine should never be counted.” -Unknown

“In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is strength, in water there is bacteria.” -David Auerbach

“Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.” -M.F.K. Fisher

“You don’t need a silver fork to eat good food.” -Paul Prudhomme

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“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

“The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for the steak to cook.” -Julia Child

“I cook with wine. Sometimes I even add it to the food.” -W.C. Fields

“We all eat, and it would be a sad waste of opportunity to eat badly.” -Anna Thomas

“A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.” -Barbara Johnson

“People who love to eat are always the best people. - Julia Child”

“My doctor told me I had to stop throwing intimate dinners for four unless there are three other people.” -Orson Welles

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“The secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.” -Mark Twain

“It’s difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.” -Lewis Grizzard

“There is no sincerer love than the love of food.” -George Bernard Shaw

“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” -Virginia Woolf

“If you really want to make a friend, go to someone’s house and eat with him… the people who give you their food give you their heart.” -Cesar Chavez

“My weaknesses have always been food and men — in that order.” - Dolly Parton

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“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” -J.R.R. Tolkien

“Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.” -Harriet van Horne

“He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.” - Jonathan Swift

“Food is symbolic of love when words are inadequate.” -Alan D. Wolfelt

“Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread and pumpkin pie.” -Jim Davis

“All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.” 

-John Gunther

10 Funny Food Quotes

"When the waitress asked if I wanted my pizza cut into four or eight slices, I said, 'Four. I don’t think I can eat eight.'" 
-- Yogi Berra

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

"The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for 30 years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found."
-- Calvin Trillin

"I always cook with wine. Sometimes I even add it to the food." 
-- W.C. Fields

"Love and sausage are alike. Can never have enough of either."
-- Trixie Koontz

"The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later, you’re hungry again. "
-- George Miller

"The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later, you’re hungry again. "
-- George Miller

"Never eat more than you can lift. "
-- Miss Piggy

"A fruit is a vegetable with looks and money. Plus, if you let fruit rot, it turns into wine, something Brussels sprouts never do."
-- P. J. O’Rourke"

"Red meat is not bad for you. Now, blue-green meat—that’s bad for you!" 
-- Tom Smothers

Cooking quotes by Thomas Keller

“Cooking is not about convenience and it's not about shortcuts. Our hunger for the twenty-minute gourmet meal, for one-pot ease and prewashed, precut ingredients has severed our lifeline to the satisfactions of cooking. Take your time. Take a long time. Move slowly and deliberately and with great attention.”
― Thomas Keller, The French Laundry Cookbook

“I think that you’ve got to make something that pleases you and hope that other people feel the same way.”
― Thomas Keller

“When you acknowledge, as you must, that there is no such thing as perfect food, only the idea of it, then the real purpose of striving toward perfection becomes clear: to make people happy, that is what cooking is all about.”
― Thomas Keller, The French Laundry Cookbook

“When we eat together, when we set out to do so deliberately, life is better, no matter what your circumstances.”
― Thomas Keller, Ad Hoc at Home

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

“A fit, healthy body—that is the best fashion statement”
― Jess C. Scott

“You are what what you eat eats.”
― Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

“Wait. Why am I thinking about Krispy Kremes? We’re supposed to be exercising.”
― Meg Cabot, Big Boned

“Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!”
― Roald Dahl

“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.”
― Hippocrates

“I am a better person when I have less on my plate.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“Am I tough? Am I strong? Am I hard-core? Absolutely.
Did I whimper with pathetic delight when I sank my teeth into my hot fried-chicken sandwich? You betcha.”
― James Patterson

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

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

“There are three possible parts to a date, of which at least two must be offered: entertainment, food, and affection. It is customary to begin a series of dates with a great deal of entertainment, a moderate amount of food, and the merest suggestion of affection. As the amount of affection increases, the entertainment can be reduced proportionately. When the affection IS the entertainment, we no longer call it dating. Under no circumstances can the food be omitted.”
― Judith Martin