Food & Cooking Quotes




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


The way you cut your meat reflects the way you live.
- Confucious


It's like spicy food - sometimes you have to tone it down so more people can enjoy it.  
- Kenneth Edmonds


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


Hunger is the best sauce in the world.
- Cervantes


Anything that walks, swims, crawls, or flies with its back to heaven is edible.
- Cantonese saying


There is no sight on earth more appealing than the sight of a woman making dinner for someone she loves.
- Thomas Wolfe


The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.
- Julia Child


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


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