Savor the Wisdom: A Curated Collection of Inspirational Food Quotes

"Cooking is all about people. Food is maybe the only universal thing that really has the power to bring everyone together. No matter what culture, everywhere around the world, people eat together."

- Guy Fieri

"The people who give you their food give you their heart."

- Cesar Chavez

"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

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

- Virginia Woolf

"People who love to eat are always the best people."

- Julia Child

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

- Giada De Laurentiis

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

- Laurie Colwin

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

- James Beard

"In the end, the culture we create comes down to the foods we share."

- Anthony Bourdain

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

- Charles Schulz

"Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love."

- Craig Claiborne

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

- Irish Proverb

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

- Harriet van Horne

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

- John Walters

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

- George Bernard Shaw

"Laughter is brightest where food is best."

- Irish Proverb

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

- Guy Fieri

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

- Thomas Keller

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

- Mark Twain

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

- Julia Child

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

- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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

- Charles M. Schulz

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

- Hippocrates

"Life is short. Eat dessert first."

- Jacques Torres

"Food is love made visible."

- Sarah Ban Breathnach

"Cooking is all about people. Food is maybe the only universal thing that really has the power to bring everyone together. No matter what culture, everywhere around the world, people get together to eat."

- Guy Fieri

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

- M.F.K Fisher

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

- Justine Larbalestier

"Food for us comes from our relatives, whether they have wings or fins or roots. That is how we consider food. Food has a culture. It has a history. It has a story. It has relationships."

- Winona LaDuke

"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

"I watch cooking change the cook, just as it transforms the food."

- Laura Esquivel

"I know once people get connected to real food, they never change back."

- Alice Waters

"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

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

- Josh Hutcherson

"Food can be very transformational, and it can be more than just about a dish. That’s what happened to me when I first went to France. I fell in love. And if you fall in love, well, then everything is easy."

- Alice Waters

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

- Alan D. Wolfelt

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

- Jerry Saltz

"I realized very early the power of food to evoke memory, to bring people together, to transport you to other places, and I wanted to be a part of that."

- Chef José Andrés

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

- Joel Fuhrman

"In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport."

- Julia Child

"Anyone who’s a chef, who loves food, ultimately knows that all that matters is: ‘Is it good? Does it give pleasure?’"

- Anthony Bourdain

"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

"Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light."

- Saint Bernard

"The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love, and death."

- E.M. Forster

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

- George Bernard Shaw

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

- Giada De Laurentiis

"Food is a common denominator for all people."

- Guy Fieri

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

- Virginia Woolf

"Food, in the end, in our own tradition, is something holy. It's not about nutrients and calories. It's about sharing. It's about honesty. It's about identity."

- Louise Fresco

"Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness."

- Auguste Escoffier

"To me, food is as much about the moment, the occasion, the location and the company as it is about the taste."

- Heston Blumenthal

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

- J.R.R. Tolkien

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

- Paul Prudhomme

"To understand a culture, you must taste its food."

- Deborah Cater

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

- Mark Kurlansky

"Food and love are the soul's two greatest cravings."

- Anonymous

"Love and food are meant for sharing, and when shared with the right people, they become unforgettable."

- Anonymous

"Cooking is love made visible."

- Anonymous

"Food is love, love is food... if you know what I mean."

- Alan Ford

"Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first."

- Ernestine Ulmer

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

- Julia Child

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

- M.F.K. Fisher

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

- Marilyn Wann

"Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity."

- Jonathan Safran Foer

"The belly rules the mind."

- Spanish Proverb

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

- Ludwig van Beethoven

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

- Erma Bombeck

"Bachelor’s fare: bread and cheese, and kisses."

- Jonathan Swift

"Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon."

- Dough Larson

"Great food is like great sex. The more you have the more you want."

- Gael Greene

"Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands – and then eat just one of the pieces."

- Judith Viorst

"Wine is bottled poetry."

- Robert Luis Stevenson

"Ice cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal."

- Voltaire

"The only thing better than a friend is a friend with chocolate."

- Linda Grayson

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

- Franz Kafka

"Cuisine is a reflection of our culture and history."

- Josiah Citrin

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

- Paul Prudhomme

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

- Jim Davis

"Food is the most primitive form of comfort."

- Sheila Graham

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

- Mark Twain

"Life is a combination of magic and pasta."

- Federico Fellini

"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

"We all eat, and it would be a sad waste of opportunity to eat badly."

- Anna Thomas

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

- Maya Angelou

"Cooking is an art, but all art requires knowing something about the techniques and materials."

- Nathan Myhrvold

"My best hostess tip is to have good food and really good music."

- Jennifer Aniston

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

- Irish Proverb

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

- Elsa Schiaparelli

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

- M.F.K. Fisher

"Food is a gift and should be treated reverentially 6romanced and ritualized and seasoned with memory."

- Chris Bohjalian

"I get way too much happiness from good food."

- Elizabeth Olsen

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Mark Twain

"When I eat with my friends, it is a moment of real pleasure, when I really enjoy my life."

- Monica Bellucci

"A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand."

- Barbara Johnson

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

- Julia Child

"All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast."

- John Gunther

"My doctor told me I had to stop throwing intimate dinners for four unless there are three other people."

- Orson Welles

"Spaghetti can be eaten most successfully if you inhale it like a vacuum cleaner."

- Sophia Loren

"Food is an important part of a balanced diet."

- Fran Lebowitz

"Butter is the most delicate of foods among barbarous nations, and one which distinguishes the wealthy from the multitude at large."

- Pliny

"A waffle is like a pancake with a syrup trap."

- Mitch Hedberg

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

- Scott Adams

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

- Orson Welles

"Always serve too much hot fudge sauce on hot fudge sundaes. It makes people overjoyed and puts them in your debt."

- Judith Olney

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

- W.C. Fields

"The best way to know a city is to eat it."

- Scott Westerfeld

"All sorrows are less with bread."

- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

"We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie."

- David Mamet

"There is only one right way to eat a steak 6 with greed in your heart and a smile on your face."

- Soumeet Lanka

"And when all of the flourless chocolate cakes & chocolate mousse or ganache cakes have come and gone, there will still be nothing like a fudgy brownie, dry & crackled on top, moist & dense within, with a glass of cold milk."

- Richard Sax

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

- A.A. Milne

"Fools make feasts and wise men eat them."

- Benjamin Franklin

"No man is lonely while eating spaghetti: it requires so much attention."

- Christopher Morley

"After a full belly all is poetry."

- Frank McCourt

"I get by with a little help from my friends."

- Ice Cube

"When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable."

- Clifton Fadiman

"Beans are a warm cloak against economic cold."

- John Steinbeck

"He was a bold man that first ate an oyster."

- Jonathan Swift

"Always serve too much hot fudge sauce on hot fudge sundaes. It makes people overjoyed, and puts them in your debt."

- Judith Olney

"I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage."

- Erma Bombeck

"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

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

- Charles de Gaulle

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

- Voltaire

"My weaknesses have always been food and men 6in that order."

- Dolly Parton

"My weaknesses have always been food and men – in that order."

- Dolly Parton

"Never eat more than you can life."

- Miss Piggy

"Food is the ultimate equalizer. It brings people together from all walks of life."

- Unknown

"Food is the ingredient that binds us together."

- Unknown

"The secret ingredient is always love."

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

"Good food, good company, great memories."

- Unknown

"Life is too short to eat boring food."

- Unknown

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

"Food is art, and you are the artist."

- Unknown

"Cooking is love made visible, and sharing it with friends is the best gift of all."

"Friendship is the wine of life, and food is its hearty companion."

"The best ingredients for a happy life: good food, good friends, and a lot of laughter."

"What is friendship? It is sharing the last slice of pizza."

"A good friend is like a four-leaf clover: hard to find and lucky to have. Good food is like a warm hug: comforting and full of love."

"The best memories are made around the table with friends and delicious food."

"There is nothing better than a friend; unless it is a friend with chocolate."

"Friends are the family we choose, and food is the love we share."

"Good food and good friends are two of life's greatest blessings."

"Food tastes better when you eat it with friends."

"Good friends, good food, good times."

"Good friends don't let you do stupid things alone... especially when there's food involved!"

"Delicious food and delightful friends make life sweet."

"Meals and memories made with friends are always the best."

"Feasting with friends: the spice of life."

"The best ingredients in life: friends and food."

"Savouring food and friendship, one bite at a time."

"Foodies forever, friends for life."

"Friendship never tasted so good."

"Friends + Food = Perfect Combo."

"Good times, great food, amazing friends."

"Best moments are made over shared meals with friends."

"Eat, laugh, and love with the best company."

"Food tastes better when shared with friends."

"Life is better with friends and delicious bites."

"Friends and food: the ultimate soulmates."