Savor the Wisdom: A Collection of Food Inspired Quotes

"Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food."

- Hippocrates

"Cooking is the ultimate giving."

- Jamie Oliver

"A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe."

- Thomas Keller

"Food is really and truly the most effective medicine."

- Joel Fuhrman

"Life is a combination of magic and pasta."

- Federico Fellini

"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."

- Michael Pollan

"Food brings people together on many different levels. It’s nourishment of the soul and body; it’s truly love."

- Giada De Laurentiis

"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

"I love you like a fat kid loves cake."

- Scott Adams

"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well."

- Virginia Woolf

"There is no sincerer love than the love of food."

- George Bernard Shaw

"Where there is love, there is life."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"There is no love sincerer than the love of food."

- George Bernard Shaw

"All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt."

- Charles M. Schulz

"Your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride."

- Anthony Bourdain

"Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious."

- Ruth Reichl

"Eating is so intimate. It’s very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you’re inviting a person into your life."

- Maya Angelou

"Comfort food is hearty. When hearts are heavy, they need gravitational and emotional equilibrium: meat loaf and mashed potatoes, macaroni and cheese, chicken pot pie, red beans and rice, creamy risotto. Food that reassures us that we will survive."

- Sarah Ban Breathnach

"The family is one of nature’s masterpieces."

- George Santayana

"Cooking is about life. It gives us what we need to keep going, and it gives us something to share with other people."

- Joan Bauer

"Cooking is a caring and nurturing act. It’s kind of the ultimate gift for someone, to cook for them. It creates all this beautiful stuff, conversation, appreciation, romance. All the most important things in life you do around a dinner table."

- Curtis Stone

"Laughter is brightest where food is best."

- Irish Proverb

"Food is our common ground, a universal experience."

- James Beard

"This magical, marvelous food on our plate, this sustenance we absorb, has a story to tell. It has a journey."

- Joel Salatin

"Food to a large extent is what holds a society together and eating is closely linked to deep spiritual experiences."

- Peter Farb

"Food is a central activity of mankind and one of the single most significant trademarks of a culture."

- Mark Kurlansky

"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"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

"Food is the most primitive form of comfort."

- Sheila Graham

"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

"The table is a meeting place, a gathering ground, the source of sustenance and nourishment, festivity, safety, and satisfaction."

- Laurie Colwin

"Food is art and magic; it evokes emotion and colors memory, and in skilled hands, meals become greater than the sum of their ingredients."

- Anthony Beal

"Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us."

- Peter De Vries

"Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good."

- Ina Garten

"If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one."

- Mother Teresa

"Food is your body's fuel. Without fuel, your body wants to shut down."

- Ken Hill

"The best comfort food will always be greens, cornbread, and fried chicken."

- Maya Angelou

"The secret of food lies in memory – of thinking and then knowing what the taste of cinnamon or steak is."

- Jerry Saltz

"Eating good food is my favourite thing in the world. Nothing is more blissful."

- Justine Larbalestier

"The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for the steak to cook."

- Julia Child

"Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are."

- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

"The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you’ve to have a what-the-hell attitude."

- Julia Child

"Food is symbolic of love when words are inadequate."

- Alan D. Wolfelt

"Laughter is brightest in the place where food is."

- Irish Proverb

"First we eat, then we do everything else."

- M.F.K. Fisher

"Cooking is love made visible."

- Anonymous

"I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else."

- Nikos Kazantzakis

"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

"I learned early on that setting a table is so much more than laying down knives and forks. It is creating a setting for food and conversation, setting a mood that lingers long after what was served and who said what was forgotten."

- Peri Wolfman

"Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation– experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way."

- Paul Theroux

"One should eat to live, not live to eat."

- Moliere

"You don't need a silver fork to eat good food."

- Paul Prudhomme

"Don’t be afraid of cooking, as your ingredients will know and misbehave. Enjoy your cooking and the food will behave; moreover it will pass your pleasure on to those who eat it."

- Fergus Henderson

"I am not a glutton – I am an explorer of food."

- Erma Bombeck

"Well, food’s always the way to anybody’s heart, I think, guy or girl."

- Josh Hutcherson

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

- Julia Child

"You are what what you eat eats."

- Michael Pollan

"Wine is bottled poetry."

- Robert Luis Stevenson

"Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first."

- Ernestine Ulmer

"The stove is the shrine where I convene with my ancestors."

- Adam Ragusea

"So long as you have food in your mouth you have solved all questions for the time being."

- Franz Kafka

"Hospitality is one form of worship."

- The Talmud

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

- Mark Twain

"You don’t need a silver fork to eat good food."

- Paul Prudhomme

"Food is not just eating energy. It’s an experience."

- Guy Fieri

"The repetitive phases of cooking leave plenty of mental space for reflection, and as I chopped and minced and sliced I thought about the rhythms of cooking, one of which involves destroying the order of the things we bring from nature into our kitchens, only to then create from them a new order."

- Michael Pollan

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

- Mark Twain

"Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all."

- Harriet van Horne

"Only the pure in heart can make a good soup."

- Ludwig van Beethoven

"The only thing I like better than talking about food is eating."

- John Walters

"I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food."

- W.C. Fields

"Cakes are healthy too, you just eat a small slice."

- Mary Berry

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

- Jim Davis

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

- Pythagoras

"There's no better feeling in the world than a warm pizza box on your lap."

- Kevin James

"A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety."

- Aesop

"Chefs are cooking blind, for strangers whose memories are unknown."

- Bee Wilson

"You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six."

- Yogi Berra

"If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?"

- John Cleese

"How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?"

- Charles de Gaulle

"Shipping is a terrible thing to do to vegetables. They probably get jet-lagged, just like people."

- Elizabeth Berry

"I could have killed you. Or I could have killed you,” Percy said. Jason shrugged. “If there’d been an ocean in Kansas, maybe.” “I don’t need an ocean—” “Boys,” Annabeth interrupted, “I’m sure you both would’ve been wonderful at killing each other. But right now, you need some rest.” Food first,” Percy said. “Please?"

- Rick Riordan

"Food tastes better when you eat it with your family."

"Food is the ingredient that binds us together."

- Unknown

"A family that cooks and eats together, stays together."

"The love of family is life’s greatest blessing."

"The fondest memories are made when gathered around the table."

"The kitchen is the heart of the home."

"The secret ingredient is always love."

"Love is meant to be savored, just like a good meal."

"In our family, every meal is a feast, and every table is a celebration."

"Love is a piece of home you carry in your heart."

"Cooking with love provides food for the soul."

"Home is where the heart is, but the kitchen is where the real magic happens."

"Happiness is homemade."

- Unknown

"Eating is a necessity, but cooking is an art."

"Good food is all the sweeter when shared with good friends."

"Life is short, eat dessert first."