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Food is one of the best ways to bring people together. It’s an essential part of every culture, and it’s so interesting to see how many dishes are familiar all around the world, with their own local twist! As the world has globalized and traveling has become easier than ever, food lovers have discovered how delicious different cuisines can be.
The way we approach food has changed in the last decades. We are no longer just eating our meals; we are photographing, taking videos, documenting, and sharing our food experiences online. Whether it’s a snap of a perfectly cooked steak, a food quote, or a post about the fancy avocado toast you can find at a new restaurant downtown, you’ll likely come across someone whose main interest is food. And it’s not just social media; cooking shows on TV and food blogs are more popular than ever and have heavily contributed to the growth of the foodie community.
What does “foodie” mean, you may wonder? A foodie is someone who loves food and dwells in the joy that comes from it. Foodies appreciate good food and drinks, love learning about new cuisines and cooking techniques and are often interested in nutrition and how different foods can affect health. They may be amateur chefs or professional cooks, but they all share an intense love for good food, whether it is a simple homemade meal or a gourmet dish with all its frills. They also collect cookbooks and love bragging about their latest restaurant find or a new recipe, and social media has made it easier than ever to share.
Since the internet is full of food quotes that celebrate the joys of eating, we collected our favorite cooking quotes from chefs and other famous food lovers; we hope they can inspire you to try something new and remind you to savor every bite!
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#1
Dinner Just Got Complicated
“My doctor told me I had to stop throwing intimate dinners for four... unless there are three other people.” – Orson Welles
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#2
Friendship Taste-Tested
“Sometimes me think, ‘What is Friend?’ and then me say, ‘Friend is someone to share the last cookie with.’” – Cookie Monster
#3
Gold is overrated, honestly
“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
#4
Gravy Over Water, Always
“I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.” – Erma Bombeck
#5
Food: The Shortcut to Everyone’s Heart
"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
#6
Love Served on a Plate
“Food is symbolic of love when words are inadequate.” – Alan D. Wolfelt
#7
Veggies, but Make It Dessert
“Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.” – Jim Davis
#8
Dessert: The Real Iceberg Here
“Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the Titanic who waved off the dessert cart.” – Erma Bombeck
#9
Glow-up Level: Vegetable Edition
“Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.” – Mark Twain
#10
Sweeten Your Love Life
“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.” – Charles M. Schulz
#11
Finally, someone said it
“Life is too short for self-hatred and celery sticks.” – Marilyn Wann
#12
Feed your soul, not just your stomach
“Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.” – Dorothy Day
#13
Homemade Beats Fancy Every Time
“If your mother cooks Italian food, why should you go to a restaurant?” – Martin Scorsese
#14
Adulting Level: Portion Control
“You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I’m not hungry enough to eat six.” – Yogi Berra
#15
Soup’s overrated, pass the pasta
“I always have parmigiano-reggiano, olive oil and pasta at home. When people get sick, they want chicken soup; I want spaghetti with parmesan cheese, olive oil and a bit of lemon zest. It makes me feel better every time.“ ― Isabella Rossellini
#16
Patience tastes better with steak
"The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook." ― Julia Child
#17
Comfort food vibes, undeniable truth
“Winter blues are cured every time with a potato gratin paired with a roast chicken.” – Alex Guarnaschelli
#18
Guilt-Free? Not Today.
“Healthy food may be good for the conscience, but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.” – Robert Redford
#19
Tastebuds Playing Time Machine
“Most of us have fond memories of food from our childhood. Whether it was our mom’s homemade lasagna or a memorable chocolate birthday cake, food has a way of transporting us back to the past.” – Homaro Cantu
#20
Mood: Forever Hungry
“I just want someone to look at me the way I look at food.”
#21
Cheese Chaos, Country Problems
“How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?” ― Charles de Gaulle
#22
Carb Loading: The Eternal Struggle
“The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you're hungry again.“ ― George Miller
#24
Wine Not Try Both?
"I cook with wine. Sometimes I even add it to the food." ― W.C. Fields
#25
Dinner fixes everything, even family headaches
“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relatives.” – Oscar Wilde
#26
Cake: the real reason to celebrate
“A party without cake is just a meeting.” – Julia Child
Mark Serbian, PK&RG,W 3 years ago
So ... bringing a cake to a meeting makes it a party? I ** LOVE ** Julia Child!!
#27
Risk Taker Level: Oyster First
“He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.” – Jonathan Swift
#28
Food: The OG Common Language
“Food is our common ground, a universal experience.“ - James Beard
Mark Serbian, PK&RG,W 3 years ago
James Beard also said, "Hunger is the best sauce" - and I'll bet he thought he was talking about food...
#29
Food is a whole vibe, not just flavor
“To me, food is as much about the moment, the occasion, the location and the company as it is about the taste.” – Heston Blumenthal
#30
Pause Everything, Food Time
“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
#31
Bite-Sized Mood Boosters
“Baking cookies is comforting, and cookies are the sweetest little bit of comfort food. They are very bite-sized and personal.” – Sandra Lee
#32
Carrots, Onions, Survival Mode
“I'm Irish, so I'm used to odd stews. I can take it. Just throw a lot of carrots and onions in there and I'll call it dinner.“ ― Liam Neeson
#33
Namaste in the Kitchen
“Baking and cooking bring me inner peace, like a tasty version of yoga, without all the awkward stretching and sweating." ― Dana Bate
#34
Flavor Symphony Vibes
“If you combine good flavors, food turns into an orchestra.“ ― Joey Fatone
#35
Cook Like You Mean It
"Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all." ― Harriet Van Horne
#36
More fudge, less regret
"Always serve too much hot fudge sauce on hot fudge sundaes. It makes people overjoyed and puts them in your debt." ― Judith Olney
#37
Garden truth hits different
"It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato." ― Lewis Grizzard
#39
Breakfast Therapy, Who Knew?
“The way you make an omelet reveals your character.” – Anthony Bourdain
#40
Breakfast of meme champions
“Popcorn for breakfast! Why not? It’s a grain. It’s like, like, grits, but with high self-esteem.” – James Patterson
#41
Priorities Straight Up
“Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.” – Orson Welles
#42
Old Wisdom, New Snack Goals
“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” – Hippocrates
#43
Cake: The OG Mood Booster
“Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake.” – Dean Koontz
#44
Food is the real holiday MVP
“The best way to celebrate the holidays is with some delicious food.” – Rachel Hollis
#45
Home Cooking Is the New Romance
“Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it’s more important to make yourself feel good.” – Ina Garten
#46
Pasta: The Ultimate Anti-Lonely Bait
“No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.” – Christopher Morley
#47
Stop obsessing over macros, honestly
“Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.” – Mary Catherine Bateson
#48
Snack first, solve later
“So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.” – Franz Kafka
#49
Lowkey Eyeing Your Friends’ Plates
“Being a foodie is difficult because all you want to do is eat―sometimes your friends’ food as well.”
#50
Fancy meals don’t need fancy tools
"You don't need a silver fork to eat good food." ― Paul Prudhomme
#51
Eat like it actually matters
"We all eat, an it would be a sad waste of opportunity to eat badly." ― Anna Thomas
#53
Cooking Needs Your Vibe
“A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring the soul to the recipe.” – Thomas Keller
#54
Food for thought, literally
“Tell me what to eat, and I will tell you what you are.” – Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
#55
Chocolate: The Anti-Aging Cheat Code
“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
#56
Who Even Says No to Free Guac?
“I suppose there are people who can pass up free guacamole, but they’re either allergic to avocado or too joyless to live.” – Frank Bruni
Jo Johannsen 3 years ago
I don't know how hating on millenials for loving avocados got started; I am a boomer who adores them. Oh, yeah, greedy, that's why. 😚
#57
Once You Go Real, You Don’t Go Back
“I know once people get connected to real food, they never change back.” – Alice Waters
#58
Because snacks get feelings too
“Food is the most primitive form of comfort.” – Sheilah Graham
#59
Love Served with Extra Cheese
“My love for you is pizza shaped. Won’t you have a slice? It’s circular, so there’s enough to go around.” – Dora J. Arod
#60
When Food Obsession Takes a Dark Turn
“Some people who are obsessed with food become gourmet chefs. Others become eating disorders.” – Marya Hornbacher
#61
Not Your Average Veggie Lie
"Thank you, horseradish, for being neither a radish nor a horse. What you are is a liar food.” - Jimmy Fallon
Jo Johannsen 3 years ago (edited)
Prime rib without horseradish sauce is just hamburger waiting to be ground up.
#62
Breakfast: The OG Mood Booster
"All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast." ― John Gunther
#64
Peace tastes better than panic
“A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.” – Aesop
#65
Lap-of-pizza luxury
“There’s not a better feeling in the world than a warm pizza on your lap.” – Kevin James
#66
Food Gets Emotional, Not Logical
“Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving, and identity.” – Jonathan Safran Foer
#67
Food Feels Extra Deep Today
“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
#68
Feeding Your Brain Snacks Too
“The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body.” – Pat Buchanan
#69
Feeding Someone Is a Power Move
“Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.” – M. F. K. Fisher
#71
Home Is Where the Taste Is
“Good food and a warm kitchen is what makes a house a home.” – Rachael Ray
#72
Breakfast solves everything, apparently
“There has never been a sadness that can’t be cured by breakfast food.” – Ron Swanson
#73
When Cooking Feels Like a Hug
“Food was a labor of love you felt by cooking it and eating it.” – George Tillman, Jr.
#74
Adventure tastes better
“I am not a glutton ― I am an explorer of food.” – Erma Bombeck
#75
Potatoes: The Ultimate Character Test
“What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.” ― A.A. Milne
#76
Flavors Only Legends Chase
“Ordinary folk prefer familiar tastes - they'd sooner eat the same things all the time - but a gourmet would sample a fried park bench just to know how it tastes.” ― Walter Moers
#77
Fact: Foodies Have the Best Vibes
"People who love to eat are always the best people." ― Julia Child
#78
Food’s the OG Peacekeeper
"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 eat together." ― Guy Fieri
#79
Dinner fixes everything, honestly
"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if not has not dined well." ― Virginia Woolf
#80
Soul Food Hits Different
“The best comfort food will always be greens, cornbread, and fried chicken.” – Maya Angelou
#82
Food philosophy, but make it real
“To me, good food is the sole reason we are on this Earth.” – Esi Edugyan
#83
Food’s lowkey time machine vibes
“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
#84
When Your Meal Diplomats Better Than You
“Food is strength, and food is peace, and food is freedom, and food is a helping hand to people around the world whose goodwill and friendship we want.” – John F. Kennedy
#85
Diet? Never Heard of Her
“Eat, as nobody is watching. Enjoy food like that’s the only thing left in your world.” – Nikita Dudani
#86
Eat smart, not just more
“Good food is healthy food. Food is supposed to sustain you so you can live better, not so you can eat more. Some people eat to live, and some people live to eat.” – Yolanda Adams
#87
Worth the flight for bites
“People will travel anywhere for good food―it’s crazy.” – Rene Redzepi
#88
Stress eating but make it gourmet
“For me, personally, I love delicious food when I’m stressed.” – Momo Hirai
#89
Friendship Tastes Better
“When I eat with my friends, it is a moment of real pleasure, when I really enjoy my life.” – Monica Bellucci
#90
Phew, That’s One Powerful Food Group
“All food starting with p is comfort food: pasta, potato chips, pretzels, peanut butter, pastrami, pizza, pastry.” – Sara Paretsky
#91
Real recognizes real dinner vibes
“Food, to me, is always about cooking and eating with those you love and care for.” – David Chang
#92
Eat like you mean it
“We all eat, and it would be a sad waste of opportunity to eat badly.” – Anna Thomas
#93
Food isn’t just fuel, it’s feelings
“Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.” – Elsa Schiaparelli
#94
Taste buds know the squad energy
“When you eat food with your family and friends, it always tastes better!”
#95
Soup That Feels Like a Hug
“Food feeds both the body and soul―there are clear reasons to eat a balanced diet, but there are also reasons you cling to your mom’s secret chicken noodle soup recipe when you’re sick.” – Michael Mina
#96
Cooking: where art meets appetite
“The preparation of good food is merely another expression of art, one of the joys of civilized living.” – Dione Lucas
#97
Cooking vibes: ingredients have their own mood swings
“Don’t be afraid of cooking, as your ingredients will know and misbehave. Enjoy your cooking and the food will behave; moreover, it will pass your pleasure on to those who eat it.” – Fergus Henderson
#98
Sounds like a food love story
“Rice is born in water and must die in wine.” – Italian Proverb
#99
Guilty Pleasure, Zero Regrets
“Most fast food is fried. Fried food tastes great, and people don’t seem to care about the fat aspect.” – Eric Schlosser
#100
Food for the soul, not the scale
“Food, in the end, in our own tradition, is something holy. It’s not about nutrients and calories. It’s about sharing. It’s about honesty. It’s about identity.” – Louise Fresco
#101
Food: The OG Mood Booster
“All sorrows are less with food.” – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
#102
Sweet endings, no regrets
“Every meal should end with something sweet. Maybe it's jelly on toast at breakfast or a small piece of chocolate at dinner - but it always helps my brain bring a close to the meal.“ ― Robert Irvine
#104
Chef’s advice: Keep gravy chill
“Food should be simple; it shouldn't be complicated, even down to making Knorr gravy: a Knorr stock cube and water, bit of parsley at the end, little bit of olive oil. It's about making the food deliciously tasty.“ ― Marco Pierre White
#105
Mood swings but make it classy
"I only drink Champagne on two occasions, when I am in love and when I am not." ― Coco Chanel
#106
Eating smart > eating just because
"To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art." ― François de la Rochefoucauld
#107
Cooking feels oddly sacred
“The stove is the shrine where I convene with my ancestors.” ― Adam Ragusea
#108
Love Served on a Plate
“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
#109
Eating like it’s a dare
“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
#110
Kurt Wouldn’t Actually Approve
“It’s okay to eat fish because they don’t have any feelings.” – Kurt Cobain
Jo Johannsen 3 years ago
Off subject, but once had a vegan tell me it was OK to eat clams because "they don't have brains"...? He must have never read B.C. comics.
#111
Make Hunger Unacceptable, Always
“Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world.” – Norman Borlaug
#113
When Taste Meets Wonderland
“Food is art and magic; it evokes emotion and colors memory, and in skilled hands, meals become greater than the sum of their ingredients.” – Anthony Beal
#114
Snack rich, feel richer
“Your diet is a bank account. Good food choices are good investments.” – Bethenny Frankel
#116
Food Isn’t Just What, It’s Who
“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
#117
Food breaks are non-negotiable, honestly
“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
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