Culinary Love Quotes

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

  James Beard

  Food, Beard, Bread

  "The Soup & Bread Cookbook: More Than 100 Seasonal Pairings for Simple, Satisfying Meals". Book by Beatrice Ojakangas, p. 7, 2013.

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• One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

  Virginia Woolf

  Love, Food, Sleep

  1929 A Room of One's Own, ch.1.

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• All sorrows are less with bread.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Food, Cooking Classes, Home Cooking

  "The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote De La Mancha". Book by Miguel de Cervantes, p. 530, 1902.

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  People who love to eat are always the best people.

  Julia Child

  Love, Food, Eating Good

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• If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Life, Change, Happiness

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.152, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• As for butter versus margarine, I trust cows more than chemists.

  Joan Dye Gussow

  Fitness, Food, Health

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

  Harriet Van Horne

  Love, Food, Memorable

  1956 Vogue, Oct.

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

  Lewis Grizzard

  Summer, Food, Garden

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• A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch.

  James Beard

  Drinking, Food, Thinking

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• As the days grow short, some faces grow long. But not mine. Every autumn, when the wind turns cold and darkness comes early, I am suddenly happy. It's time to start making soup again.

  Leslie Newman

  Food, Autumn, Wind

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• Cooking is at once one of the simplest and most gratifying of the arts, but to cook well one must love and respect food.

  Craig Claiborne

  Art, Food, Home Cooking

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• The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me and I to them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Food, Men, Vegetables

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.34, Penguin

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• When I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and it is all one.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Food, Writing, Hunger

  The Gastronomical Me foreword (1943).

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• There’s no sight on earth more appealing than that of a woman making dinner for someone she loves.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Love, Food, Sight

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

  Woody Allen

  Witty, Food, Oysters

  "Don't Drink the Water: A Comedy in Two Acts". Play by Woody Allen (p. 26), 1967.

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• I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regretted most of them, but never the potatoes that went with them.

  Nora Ephron

  Love, Regret, Mistake

  FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from Feb 09, 2011

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• The kitchen, reasonably enough, was the scene of my first gastronomic adventure. I was on all fours. I crawled into the vegetable bin, settled on a giant onion and ate it, skin and all. It must have marked me for life, for I have never ceased to love the hearty flavor of raw onions.

  James Beard

  Food, Heart, Adventure

  James Beard (2015). “Delights and Prejudices”, p.8, Open Road Media

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• The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Funny, Food, Sarcasm

  "Alarms And Discursions". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1910.

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• You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.

  Charles Kuralt

  Country, Stars, Fun

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Love, Funny, Valentines Day

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• Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

  Mark Twain

  Education, Food, Inspiration

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 5, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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

  Voltaire

  Drinking, Food, Godly

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Food, Oysters, Sick

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• Nobody seems more obsessed by diet than our antimaterialist, otherworldly, New Age, spiritual types. But if the material world is merely illusion, an honest guru should as content with Budweiser and bratwurst as with raw carrot juice, tofu, and seaweed slime.

  Edward Abbey

  Spiritual, Food, Cooking

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.16, RosettaBooks

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• We plan, we toil, we suffer - in the hope of what? A camel-load of idol's eyes? The title deeds of Radio City? The empire of Asia? A trip to the moon? No, no, no, no. Simply to wake just in time to smell coffee and bacon and eggs.

  J. B. Priestley

  Coffee, Food, Eye

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