Great Food Quotes

Sitting down and sharing a meal together combines two of my favorite loves: eating great food and talking about great food.

Great wine is always enhanced by great food.

I like being able to go to a local pub and have great food and particularly love pubs that welcome my dogs.

I was surprised by how much I loved Portland. It is so wonderfully creative without being artsy. Great food scene.

I like a quiet evening with family or friends over, great food and great discussion and a lot of laughter. That's really what I think fills my tank.

It has always stood for f***ing great food.

Nobody in Singapore drinks Singapore Slings. It's one of the first things you find out there. What you do in Singapore is eat. It's a really food-crazy culture, where all of this great food is available in a kind of hawker-stand environment.

I'm working harder than ever now, and I'm putting on my pants the same as I always have. I just get up every day and try to do a little better than the day before, and that is to run a great restaurant with great food, great wine, and great service. That's my philosophy.

Great food is similar to great sex. Extra you have greater you want.

We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are.

Kolkata is a great city, has great food and great people. We had some problems finding the kind of old buildings we were looking for, and even handling the crowds, but on the whole it was fun shooting there.

My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order.

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

It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.

I enjoy wine collecting and great food.

I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

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

I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead - not sick, not wounded - dead.

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

The great thing about chefs as celebrities is it gives you a larger stage to let people know how important great food is. You're able to reach a nation. The hardest thing about being a celebrity chef is you go from working 18-hour days in your kitchen to it pulling you out of your kitchen here and there. I used to be in my kitchen six or seven days a week, and for ten years I never even took a vacation.

The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.

You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.

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.

Oh yes, there's lots of great food in America. But the fast food is about as destructive and evil as it gets. It celebrates a mentality of sloth, convenience, and a cheerful embrace of food we know is hurting us.

Move to Italy. I mean it: they know about living in debt; they don't care. I stayed out there for five months while I was making a film called 'Order Of Death,' and they've really got it sussed. Nice cars. Sharp suits. Great food. Stroll into work at 10. Lunch from 12 till three. Leave work at five. That's living!

Whoever would have guessed that in the land of cheap sausages and mashed potatoes there could be such a change which would actually bring the French from Paris every weekend to invade Britain en masse to eat great food and drink great wine.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

Wine is a living liquid containing no preservatives. Its life cycle comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death. When not treated with reasonable respect it will sicken and die.

If I am in London I like a quick get away to The Olde Bell in Hurley It's nearby and no stress - great food and beautiful walks.

All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.

Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; and good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts.

I am inspired by great food, theater, books, the beach, black-and-white photography, and great vocalists, like Dianne Reeves, Alice Smith, and Shirley Horn. I am inspired by my mentor Diana Castle, who is guiding me towards a truth and honesty in my life and work that I have always longed for.

Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.

A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.

How can a nation be called great if its bread tastes like kleenex?

Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.

I think authenticity is important whichever homeland you're from but one of the lovely things about British cooking is that we adopt great food and dishes from all of the lovely people who come from overseas to live in our country. We're a magpie nation - we take the best bits of other cuisines and embrace them as our own.

There are pockets of great food in Spain, but there are also pockets of very mediocre food in Spain, and the same in Morocco and the same in Croatia and the same in Germany and the same in Austria.

Australia is so cool that it's hard to even know where to start describing it. The beaches are beautiful; so is the weather. Not too crowded. Great food, great music, really nice people. It must be a lot like Los Angeles was many years ago.

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.

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

Wine ... offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than possibly any other purely sensory thing which may be purchased.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.

I saw all that [white trash] growing up in Alabama and Georgia. I had a group of country cousins and we'd go visit them when I was a kid. They lived on a red dirt Georgia back road, in a shack, with twelve kids. Farmers. No electricity, they had a well on their back porch, but they had nothing, yet they were the happiest, freest people I'd ever met. I loved to visit them. Great sense of humor, and they kept up with all the latest music, country, rockabilly, that stuff. Great food they grew in the fields and canned. Happy people.

Hong Kong is a wonderful, mixed-up town where you've got great food and adventure. First and foremost, it's a great place to experience China in a relatively accessible way.

After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.

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