1. After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relatives.

- Oscar Wilde

2. Life is a combination of magic and pasta.

- Federico Fellini?

3. Food delights us, food unites us, food embodies the soil, the sea and the weather, the farmer’s sweat and the fisherman’s toil.

- Don George

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

- Thomas Keller

5. 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

6. If you really want to make a friend, go to someone’s house and eat… The people who give you their food give you their heart.

- Caesar Chavez

7. Food may be essential as fuel for the body, but good food is fuel for the soul.

- Malcom Forbes

8. Cooking is like painting or writing a song. Just as there are only so many notes or colors, there are only so many flavors – it’s how you combine them that sets you apart.

- Wolfgang Puck

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

- Giada De Laurentiis

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

- John Walters

11. Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world.

- Norman Borlaug

12. Sometimes you have to move paste things, and the best way to do that is by sharinng your life with people over food.

- Andrew Zimmern, The Zimmern List

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

- George Bernard Shaw

14. Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.

- Dorothy Day

15. Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

- Mark Twain

16. A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.

- Lord Byron

17. Never be a food snob. Learn from everyone you meet: the fish guy at your market, the lady at the local diner, farmers, cheese makers. Ask questions, try everything and eat up!

- Rachael Ray

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

- Irish Proverb

19. If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.

- Leigh Hunt

20. Cooking demands attention, patience, and above all, a respect for the gifts of the earth. It is a form of worship, a way of giving thanks.

- Judith B. Jones

21. Food is music to the body, music is food to the heart?.

- Gregory David Roberts

22. Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.

- Sofia Loren

23. Winter blues are cured every time with a potato gratin paired with a roast chicken.

- Alex Guarnaschelli?

24. It’s a food of love thing, baby.

- Emeril Lagasse

25. Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.

- Adelle Davis

26. All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.

- John Gunther

27. Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.

- W.C. Fields

28. 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

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

- M.F.K. Fisher

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

- Voltaire

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

- Paul Theroux

32. The Food and Drug Administration announced today that while one ounce of Special K with four ounces of milk is a good dietary source of protein, one ounce of Special K with five ounces of milk is deadly poison.

- Norm Macdonald

33. There has never been a sadness that can’t be cured by breakfast food.

- Ron Swanson

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

- Laura Esquivel

35. I cook with wine. Sometimes I even add it to the food.

- W.C. Fields

36. The gift of food to the hungry is the noblest of all gifts.

- Sathya Salbaba

37. 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

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Jim Davis

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

- Mark Twain

41. Food is the most primitive form of comfort.

- Sheila Graham

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

- Yogi Berra

43. Food is strength, and food is peace, and food is freedom, and food is a helping hand to people around the world whose good will and friendship we want.

- John F. Kennedy

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

- Orson Welles

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

- Alan D. Wolfet

46. Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

- Hippocrates

47. The most indispensable ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for.

- Sofia Loren

48. I prefer cooking to baking. Baking, to me, is very precise, and it’s about perfection.

- Ree Drummond

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

- Julia Child

50. 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

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

- Charles Schulz

52. 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

53. Good food and a warm kitchen is what makes a house a home.

- Rachael Ray

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

- Erma Bombeck

55. Typically a weekend retreat for the heart, soul and palate, brunch is the perfect way to unwind and reconnect.

- Marcela Valladolid

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

- Heston Blumenthal

57. 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

58. Food was a labor of love you felt by cooking it and eating it.

- George Tillman, Jr.

59. Cooking is like love, it should be entered into with abandon, or not at all.

- Harriet Vorne Horne

60. Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.

- Mary Catherine Bateson

61. Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

- Oscar Wilde

62. I’m a home cook and love to read about food, but I’m not trained as a chef. I’m just really into cooking and passionate about it.

- Ted Allen

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

- James Beard

64. 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.

- José Andrés Puerta

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

- Jonathan Swift

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

- Dolly Parton

67. Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the Titanic who waved off the dessert cart.

- Erma Bombeck

68. A party without cake is just a meeting.

- Julia Child

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

- Anna Thomas

70. Stop being a vegan and start enjoying what you eat.

- Jamie Oliver

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

- Marilyn Wann

72. There are two activities in life in which we can lovingly and carefully put something inside of someone we love. Cooking is the one we can do three times a day for the rest of our lives, without pills. In both activities, practice makes perfect.

- Mario Batali

73. Not eating meat is a decision, eating meat is an instinct.

- Dennis Leary

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

- Josh Hutcherson

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

- Jonathan Sofran Foer

76. 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

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

- E.M. Forster

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

- J.R.R. Tolkien

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

- Franz Kafka

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

- Julia Child

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

- Ludwig van Beethoven

82. Eating good food is my favorite thing in the world. Nothing is more blissful.?

- Justine Larbalestier

83. Anything is good if it’s made of chocolate.

- Jo Brand

84. If you can’t feed a hundred people, then just feed one.

- Mother Teresa

85. Cooking and baking is both physical and mental therapy.

- Mary Berry

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

- Orson Welles

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

- Virgina Woolfe

88. If your mother cooks Italian food, why should you go to a restaurant?

- Martin Scorcese

89. Large, naked, raw carrots are acceptable as food only to those who live in hutches eagerly awaiting Easter.

- Fran Lebowitz

90. The way you make an omelet reveals your character.

- Anthony Bourdain

91. The food you eat can be either the safest and most powerful medicine or the slowest form of poison.

- Ann Wigmore