If we’re not willing to settle for junk living, we certainly shouldn’t settle for junk food. -Sally Edwards

 

Nothing would be more tiresome¹ than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity. -Voltaire

 

Vegetables are a must on a diet.  I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin² pie. -Jim Davis

 

Sex is good, but not as good as fresh, sweet corn. -Garrison Keillor

 

I have long believed that good food, good eating is all about risk. Whether we’re talking about unpasteurized Stilton, raw oysters³ or working for organized crime “associates,” food, for me, has always been an adventure. -Anthony Bourdain

 

After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relatives. -Oscar Wilde

 

It’s difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato. -Lewis Grizzard

 

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

 

When baking, follow directions. When cooking, go by your own taste. -Laiko Bahrs

 

All happiness depends on a leisurely⁴ breakfast. -John Gunther

 

We plan, we toil⁵, we suffer – in the hope of what?  A camel-load of idol’s eyes? The title deeds of Radio City? The empire of Asia? A trip to the moon? No, no, no, no. Simply to wake just in time to smell coffee and bacon and eggs. -J.B. Priestly

 

There is no love sincerer than the love of food. -George Bernard Shaw

 

The most remarkable⁶ thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers⁷. The original meal has never been found. -Calvin Trillin

 

Life is a combination of magic and pasta. -Federico Fellini

 

Soup is just a way of screwing you out of a meal. -Jay Leno

 

The tradition of Italian cooking is that of the matriarch. This is the cooking of grandma. She didn’t waste time thinking too much about the celery. She got the best celery she could and then she dealt with it. -Mario Batali

 

Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all. -Harriet van Horne

 

A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe. -Thomas Keller

 

It’s so beautifully arranged on the plate – you know someone’s fingers have been all over it. -Julia Child

 

Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts! -James Beard

 

Life expectancy⁸ would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon. -Doug Larson

 

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. -Virginia Woolf

 

Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art. It requires instinct and taste rather than exact measurements. -Marcel Boulestin

 

I’ll bet what motivated the British to colonize⁹ so much of the world is that they were just looking for a decent meal. -Martha Harrison

 

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

 

I prefer to regard a dessert as I would imagine the perfect woman: subtle, a little bittersweet, not blowsy and extrovert¹⁰. Delicately made up, not highly rouged¹¹. Holding back, not exposing everything and, of course, with a flavor that lasts. -Graham Kerr

 

Great food is like great sex. The more you have the more you want. -Gael Greene

 

The belly¹² rules the mind. -Spanish Proverb

 

For the first time I know what it is to eat. I have gained four pounds. I get frantically¹³ hungry, and the food I eat gives me a lingering pleasure. I never ate before in this deep carnal way… I want to bite into life and to be torn by it. -Anaïs Nin

 

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

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