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Eat to live, not live to eat.
Oct 1, 2025
Only philosophers embark on this perilous expedition to the outermost reaches of language and existence. Some of them fall off, but others cling on desperately and yell at the people nestling deep in the snug softness, stuffing themselves with delicious food and drink. 'Ladies and Gentlemen,' they yell, 'we are floating in space!' But none of the people down there care.
While eating a delicious food, remember the peasants and the workers who made this possible!
With enough butter, anything is good
It is sometimes necessary for each person. Fill up with delicious food, get drunk, sing loudly and chat frivolously.
Meal isn't over when I'm full. Meal's over when I hate myself.
Pasta doesn't make you fat. How much pasta you eat makes you fat.
I like food. I like eating. And I don't want to deprive myself of good food.
When the waitress asked if I wanted my pizza cut into four or eight slices, I said, 'Four. I don't think I can eat eight.'
I have my new food line in the works - I think it's over 200 items. Hopefully I can make a difference; it's delicious food that's just so easy. I think it'll help people enjoy their lives... it's good!
Shop often, shop hard, and spend for the best stuff available - logic dictates that you can make delicious food only with delicious ingredients.
In Italy, they add work and life on to food and wine.
Delicious foods are drugs that will inflame the gut and rot the bones, but there is no harm if one eats moderately. Delightful things are all purveyors of destruction and decadence, but there is no regret if one enjoys them moderately.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
Custard: A detestable substance produced by a malevolent conspiracy of the hen, the cow, and the cook.
But all that being said about modulation, if you're serving people delicious food, they won't complain.
Wine is like women. It tempts you; it comforts you; it confuses you and can even turn on you when you least expect it. It can be your friend one day and your enemy the next.
I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.
I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead - not sick, not wounded - dead.
There’s no sight on earth more appealing than that of a woman making dinner for someone she loves.
The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
If the divine creator has taken pains to give us delicious and exquisite things to eat, the least we can do is prepare them well and serve them with ceremony.
Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the 'Titanic' who waved off the dessert cart.
A fruit is a vegetable with looks and money. Plus, if you let fruit rot, it turns into wine, something brussel sprouts never do.
All sorrows are less with bread.
The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
I am a better person when I have less on my plate.
Just listen to your body, eat in silence and see what feels good and you will spontaneously choose the foods that are beneficial to you.
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
I got involved through the director of the show [Top Chef], he's a director of films in Mexico; I worked with him before. I watched the show in English -many times for many years - and I always loved it. As soon as I heard about having an opportunity to showcase Mexico in a different way, to show a different side of Mexico, that is not violent, that has beautiful colors and delicious food... I didn't think about it twice.
Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; and good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts.
Food is an important part of a balanced diet.
Red meat is not bad for you. Now blue-green meat, that's bad for you!
Food cannot cause you to put on weight, unless you think it can.
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
Get up early and go to the local produce markets. In Latin America and Asia, those are usually great places to find delicious food stalls serving cheap, authentic and fresh specialties.
If you work hard and you learn and you absorb and you pay attention, career in food is great. This job can take you all around the world. You can eat the most delicious food. It allows you to be creative.... [And] don't ever quit. It's going to pay off eventually. It might not be in a year. Might be 20 years or 10 years. But you have to keep pushing. Just have that fire, have the passion, and want to be successful. And don't listen to anybody else.
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
Noodles are not only amusing but delicious.
Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.
People who love to eat are always the best people.
When the bee has gathered the dew of heaven and the earth's sweetest nectar from the flowers, it turns it into honey, then hastens to its hive. In the same way, the priest, having taken from the altar the Son of God (who is as the dew from heaven, and true son of Mary, flower of our humanity), gives him to you as delicious food.
Doing things like playing music, something that's so natural and basic to human function, running around in nature, eating delicious food. These things are intrinsic in basic, primordial to human beings, so that's sort of a way to return to a blank canvas, allowing my true personality to return.
Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.
To me, video games aren't something as necessary as food or sleep, but they're just as important as delicious food, drinks, afternoon naps, walks, music, and sex (or masturbation). Not having them won't kill you, but without them, your life would be so boring you might as well be dead.
I have an enormous fondness for delicious food. It's very comforting
Large, naked, raw carrots are acceptable as food only to those who live in hutches eagerly awaiting Easter.
After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.