Lauren Delgado > Lauren's Quotes

“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
― Charles M. Schulz

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.”
― Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance

“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.”
― Julia Child

“What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.”
― A.A. Milne

“Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.”
― Mark Twain

“Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn't illegal.”
― Voltaire

“You can't just eat good food. You've got to talk about it too. And you've got to talk about it to somebody who understands that kind of food.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Jailbird

“If you're afraid of butter, use cream.”
― Julia Child

“Whoever thought a tiny candy bar should be called fun size was a moron.”
― Glenn Beck

“I like a cook who smiles out loud when he tastes his own work.
Let God worry about your modesty; I want to see your enthusiasm.”
― Robert Farrar Capon

“Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cream makes it Russian; lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese; garlic makes it good.”
― Alice May Brock

“A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.”
― Elsa Schiaparelli

“Always serve too much hot fudge sauce on hot fudge sundaes.
It makes people overjoyed, and puts them in your debt.”
― Judith Olney

“Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“I know the look of an apple that is roasting and sizzling on the hearth on a winter's evening, and I know the comfort that comes of eating it hot, along with some sugar and a drench of cream... I know how the nuts taken in conjunction with winter apples, cider, and doughnuts, make old people's tales and old jokes sound fresh and crisp and enchanting.”
― Mark Twain

“All sorrows are less with bread. ”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“No man is lonely while eating spaghetti:
it requires so much attention.”
― Christopher Morley

“Sex is good, but not as good as fresh sweet corn.”
― Garrison Keillor

“I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“How can a nation be called great if its bread tastes like kleenex?”
― Julia Child

“The preparation of good food is merely another expression of art, one of the joys of civilized living…”
― Dione Lucas

“A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch.”
― James Beard

“Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.”
― Sophia Loren

“Fat gives things flavor.”
― Julia Child

“Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.”
― Craig Claiborne

“Thanksgiving dinner's sad and thankless. Christmas dinner's dark and blue. When you stop and try to see it From the turkey's point of view.

Sunday dinner isn't sunny. Easter feasts are just bad luck. When you see it from the viewpoint of a chicken or a duck. Oh how I once loved tuna salad Pork and lobsters, lamb chops too Till I stopped and looked at dinner From the dinner's point of view.”
― Shel Silverstein

“Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious.”
― Ruth Reichl

“I come from a home where gravy is a beverage.”
― Erma Bombeck