I’ve always collected quotes from the books that I’ve read. I usually keep a notebook with me while I’m reading a book so that I can write down any quotes or sayings that interest me. I stopped taking notes for a few years and just started underlining the quotes in the book but I have started taking notes again as I seem to use them and refer back to them more often.
Here’s some food quotes from chefs, home cooks, food writers, and food lovers of all shapes and sizes. The thing that I love about food is that anyone can have an opinion on it and be right as we’re all food experts. We’ve been putting the stuff in our mouths all of our lives, so we have plenty of experience.
Obviously professionals can describe things in more depth as they’ve gained more knowledge and understanding over their careers, but we all have plenty of experience with food, even if we’ve never set foot in the kitchen. Food is life.
But today lets just look at what those who dedicate their lives to food have to say about it.
20 Food Quotes
Vegetarians are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit, an affront to all I stand for, the pure enjoyment of food. The body, these waterheads imagine, is a temple that should not be polluted by animal protein. It’s healthier, they insist, though every vegetarian waiter I’ve worked with is brought down by any rumor of a cold.
Anthony Bourdain
Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.
Harriet Van Horne
You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I’m not hungry enough to eat six.
Yogi Berra
The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for the steak to cook.
Julia Child
I was working for a chef a long time ago who told me to not skip steps or be in a hurry. Success in a kitchen is more like a marathon and less like a sprint. Rising up the ranks too quickly isn’t necessarily a good thing.
Wylie Dufresne
Food is celebratory. People who don’t cook don’t know how much fun they’re missing.
Leo Buscaglia
The pressure on young chefs today is far greater than ever before in terms of social skills, marketing skills, cooking skills, personality and, more importantly, delivering on the plate. So you need to be strong. Physically fit. So my chefs get weighed every time they come into the kitchen.
Gordon Ramsay
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
When I’m hiring a cook for one of my restaurants, and I want to see what they can do, I usually ask them to make me an omelette.
Bobby Flay
If you truly get in touch with a piece of carrot, you get in touch with the soil, the rain, the sunshine. You get in touch with Mother Earth and eating in such a way, you feel in touch with true life, your roots, and that is meditation. If we chew every morsel of our food in that way we become grateful and when you are grateful, you are happy.
Thich Nhat Hanh
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
A chef’s palate is born out of his childhood, and one thing all chefs have in common is a mother who can cook.
Marco Pierre White
Recipes tell you nothing. Learning techniques is the key.
Tom Colicchio
If you take everything personally and to heart, it will tear you apart. Take criticism, learn, adjust, and move on.
Johnny Iuzzini
I wouldn’t say that processed food, ready meals and even takeaways aren’t relevant to modern life, it’s just that over the past 40 years there are three generations of people who have come out of school and gone through their home life without ever being shown how to cook properly.
Jamie Oliver
My husband cooks fancier food for himself than I’ve ever cooked on-air. I call him from the road, and he’s making champagne-vanilla salmon or black-cherry pork chop. Half of me is feeling unworthy. Not only am I not a chef, I’m not a better cook than my own husband!
Rachel Ray
The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you’ve got to have a what-the-hell attitude.
Julia Child
I still think it’s essential for a parent to cook with their children. Weighing out the ingredients and learning where the food comes from is educational, but it also helps to place meal times at the heart of family life. We never had dinner in front of the TV.
Mary Berry
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
Cooking is like painting or writing a song. Just as there are only so many notes or colors, there are only so many flavors – it’s how you combine them that sets you apart.
Wolfgang Puck
What are some of your favorite food quotes or sayings that you use? Let me know in the comments. I’ve posted some Chef quotes here, Food quotes and some African food quotes here previously.
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