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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“My doctor told me I had to stop throwing intimate dinners for four... unless there are three other people.” – Orson Welles
“Sometimes me think, ‘What is Friend?’ and then me say, ‘Friend is someone to share the last cookie with.’” – Cookie Monster
“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
“I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.” – Erma Bombeck
"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
“Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.” – Jim Davis
“Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the Titanic who waved off the dessert cart.” – Erma Bombeck
“Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.” – Mark Twain
“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.” – Charles M. Schulz
“Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.” – Dorothy Day
“If your mother cooks Italian food, why should you go to a restaurant?” – Martin Scorsese
“You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I’m not hungry enough to eat six.” – Yogi Berra
“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
"The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook." ― Julia Child
“Winter blues are cured every time with a potato gratin paired with a roast chicken.” – Alex Guarnaschelli
“Healthy food may be good for the conscience, but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.” – Robert Redford
“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
“I just want someone to look at me the way I look at food.”
“How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?” ― Charles de Gaulle
“The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you're hungry again.“ ― George Miller
"I cook with wine. Sometimes I even add it to the food." ― W.C. Fields
“A party without cake is just a meeting.” – Julia Child
So ... bringing a cake to a meeting makes it a party? I ** LOVE ** Julia Child!!
“He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.” – Jonathan Swift
“Food is our common ground, a universal experience.“ - James Beard
James Beard also said, "Hunger is the best sauce" - and I'll bet he thought he was talking about food...
“To me, food is as much about the moment, the occasion, the location and the company as it is about the taste.” – Heston Blumenthal
“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
“Baking cookies is comforting, and cookies are the sweetest little bit of comfort food. They are very bite-sized and personal.” – Sandra Lee
“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
“Baking and cooking bring me inner peace, like a tasty version of yoga, without all the awkward stretching and sweating." ― Dana Bate
"Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all." ― Harriet Van Horne
"Always serve too much hot fudge sauce on hot fudge sundaes. It makes people overjoyed and puts them in your debt." ― Judith Olney
"It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato." ― Lewis Grizzard
“Popcorn for breakfast! Why not? It’s a grain. It’s like, like, grits, but with high self-esteem.” – James Patterson
“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
“So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.” – Franz Kafka
“Being a foodie is difficult because all you want to do is eat―sometimes your friends’ food as well.”
“A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring the soul to the recipe.” – Thomas Keller
“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
“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
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. 😚
“I know once people get connected to real food, they never change back.” – Alice Waters
“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
“Some people who are obsessed with food become gourmet chefs. Others become eating disorders.” – Marya Hornbacher
"Thank you, horseradish, for being neither a radish nor a horse. What you are is a liar food.” - Jimmy Fallon
Prime rib without horseradish sauce is just hamburger waiting to be ground up.
“Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving, and identity.” – Jonathan Safran Foer
“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
“The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body.” – Pat Buchanan
“Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.” – M. F. K. Fisher
“I am not a glutton ― I am an explorer of food.” – Erma Bombeck
“What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.” ― A.A. Milne
“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
"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
"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if not has not dined well." ― Virginia Woolf
“The best comfort food will always be greens, cornbread, and fried chicken.” – Maya Angelou
“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
“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
“Eat, as nobody is watching. Enjoy food like that’s the only thing left in your world.” – Nikita Dudani
“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
“When I eat with my friends, it is a moment of real pleasure, when I really enjoy my life.” – Monica Bellucci
“All food starting with p is comfort food: pasta, potato chips, pretzels, peanut butter, pastrami, pizza, pastry.” – Sara Paretsky
“Food, to me, is always about cooking and eating with those you love and care for.” – David Chang
“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
“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
“The preparation of good food is merely another expression of art, one of the joys of civilized living.” – Dione Lucas
“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
“Most fast food is fried. Fried food tastes great, and people don’t seem to care about the fat aspect.” – Eric Schlosser
“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
“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
“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
"I only drink Champagne on two occasions, when I am in love and when I am not." ― Coco Chanel
"To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art." ― François de la Rochefoucauld
“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
“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
“It’s okay to eat fish because they don’t have any feelings.” – Kurt Cobain
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.
“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
“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
“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
