Food Quotes

Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.

Mary Catherine Bateson

You know how you wake up in the morning and sometimes you look gorgeous and other times you look like you got hit by a mack truck? I realized that my mack truck is food. If I have no sugar, yeast or wine, I have no undereye bags and my skin is perfect.

Mariska Hargitay

In the 21st century our tastes buds, our brain chemistry, our biochemistry, our hormones and our kitchens have been hijacked by the food industry.

Mark Hyman

I believe that London is the most exciting food city in Europe.

Wolfgang Puck

When I came to the Food Network, I didn't want to do a cooking show. I told Kathleen Finch for nine months I didn't want to do a cooking show, I wanted to do a home-and-garden show.

Sandra Lee

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

Oscar Wilde

If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.

A. J. Liebling

I love home cooking, and I'm not a great one for fast food.

Bear Grylls

Japanese food makes me feel particularly good.

David Mitchell

When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.

Calvin Trillin

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

J. R. R. Tolkien

What is food to one man is bitter poison to others.

Lucretius

Fast food is hugely important in the life of a comedy writer. All we do is order in, and what we're going to eat is hotly debated.

Mindy Kaling

What's my favourite food? One you order out.

Abigail Breslin

Animals that we eat are raised for food in the most economical way possible, and the serious food producers do it in the most humane way possible. I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages.

Julia Child

More die in the United States from too much food that from too little.

John Kenneth Galbraith

I don't like food that's too carefully arranged it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.

Andy Rooney

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

Jonathan Safran Foer

I have encouraged my kids to eat well from day one. I add flavor - herbs and spices - to everything because I don't want them getting used to starchy, bland food. I also want them to experiment - they don't have to love everything, but they do have to try it.

Alison Sweeney

I think the water dictates how food will taste in a country. In England the apples taste unlike apples grown in any other place. England is an island, there's a lot of salt in the air and in the water. I think that has something to do with it.

Gael Garcia Bernal