Quotations About Food

“Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.”
Doug Larson
“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
“It’s so beautifully arranged on the plate – you know someone’s fingers have been all over it.”
Julia Child
“There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Don’t forget that the flavors of wine and cheese depend upon the types of infecting microörganisms.”
Martin H. Fischer
“Cheese – milk’s leap toward immortality.”
Clifton Fadiman
“He that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well.”
English Proverb
“Fish, to taste right, must swim three times – in water, in butter, and in wine.”
Polish Proverb
“Soup is just a way of screwing you out of a meal.”
Jay Leno
“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
“Avoid fruit and nuts. You are what you eat.”
Jim Davis
“In general, mankind, since the improvement in cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.”
Mark Twain
“As for butter versus margarine, I trust cows more than chemists.”
Joan Gussow
“The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor.”
Chinese Proverb
“I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead – not sick, not wounded – dead.”
Woody Allen
“Rice is born in water and must die in wine.”
Italian Proverb
“An empty belly is the best cook.”
Estonian Proverb
“The way you cut your meat reflects the way you live.”
Confucius
“Worries go down better with soup.”
Jewish Proverb
“In Mexico we have a word for sushi: bait.”
José Simons
“Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.”
Jim Davis
“Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.”
Voltaire
“There is a lot more juice in grapefruit than meets the eye.”
Author Unknown
“We think fast food is equivalent to pornography, nutritionally speaking.”
Steve Elbert
“High-tech tomatoes. Mysterious milk. Supersquash. Are we supposed to eat this stuff? Or is it going to eat us?”
Annita Manning