1. I’ve 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
2. Laughter is brightest in the place where the food is.-Irish Proverb
3. 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
4. After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relatives.-Oscar Wilde
5. The secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.-Mark Twain
6. The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for the steak to cook.-Julia Child
7. Food is symbolic of love when words are inadequate.-Alan D. Wolfelt
8. 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
9. One cannot think well, love well and sleep well if one has not dined well.-Virginia Woolf
10. Popcorn for breakfast! Why not? It’s a grain. It’s like, like, grits, but with high self-esteem.-James Patterson
11. Food is everything we are. It’s an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It’s inseparable from those from the get-go.-Anthony Bourdain
12. The chief pleasure in eating does not consist in costly seasoning, or exquisite flavor, but in yourself.-Horace
13. You can’t just eat good food. You’ve got to talk about it too. And you’ve got to talk about it to somebody who understands that kind of food.-Kurt Vonnegut
14. People who love to eat are always the best people.-Julia Child
15. Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.-Adelle Davis
16. Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.-Jim Davis
17. Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.-Harriet Van Horne
18. Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.-Doug Larson
19. Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.-Oscar Wilde
20. A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe.-Thomas Keller
21. The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness And in the taste confounds the appetite.-William Shakespeare
22. Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.-Mark Twain
23. Rice is born in water and must die in wine.-Italian Proverb
24. I’m pretty sure that eating chocolate keeps wrinkles away because I have never seen a 10 year old with a Hershey bar and crows feet.-Amy Neftzger
25. If soup isn’t hot enough to make a grown man wince, it’s undrinkable.-Terri Guillemets
26. The onion is the truffle of the poor.-Robert J. Courtine
27. Vegetables are food of the earth, but fruits taste of the heavens.-Terri Guillemets
28. Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts!-James Beard
29. Food brings people together on many different levels. It’s nourishment of the soul and body; it’s truly love.-Giada De Laurentiis
30. My general rule is that if everyone knew how to cook fresh produce from their local area, and Monday to Thursday within 20 minutes, you know, there’s millions of recipes out there to be had.-Jamie Oliver