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  • #1
    Virginia Woolf
    “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
    Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

  • #2
    Erma Bombeck
    “Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the 'Titanic' who waved off the dessert cart.”
    Erma Bombeck

  • #3
    Jarod Kintz
    “It’s absolutely unfair for women to say that guys only want one thing: sex. We also want food.”
    Jarod Kintz, $3.33

  • #4
    W.C. Fields
    “I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.”
    W.C. Fields

  • #5
    George Bernard Shaw
    “There is no love sincerer than the love of food.”
    George Bernard Shaw, BBC Radio presents Man and superman

  • #6
    Julia Child
    “The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.”
    Julia Child

  • #7
    “Humor keeps us alive. Humor and food. Don't forget food. You can go a week without laughing.”
    Joss Whedon

  • #8
    Mark Twain
    “Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.”
    Mark Twain

  • #9
    Hippocrates
    “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.”
    Hippocrates

  • #10
    A.A. Milne
    “What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.”
    A.A. Milne

  • #11
    “We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.”
    David Mamet, Boston Marriage

  • #12
    Erma Bombeck
    “I am not a glutton - I am an explorer of food”
    Erma Bombeck

  • #13
    Robert Frost
    “There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will.”
    Robert Frost

  • #14
    Voltaire
    “Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn't illegal.”
    Voltaire
    tags: food

  • #15
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “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

  • #16
    Charles de Gaulle
    “How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?”
    Charles de Gaulle

  • #17
    Ernest Hemingway
    “As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.”
    Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

  • #18
    Ronald Reagan
    “You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans. ”
    Ronald Reagan

  • #19
    Julia Child
    “How can a nation be called great if its bread tastes like kleenex?”
    Julia Child

  • #20
    Julia Child
    “If you're afraid of butter, use cream.”
    Julia Child

  • #21
    Robert Farrar Capon
    “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

  • #22
    Anthony Bourdain
    “Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans ... are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit.”
    Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential : Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

  • #23
    Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
    “The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of the human race than the discovery of a star.”
    Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, The Physiology of Taste: Or, Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy

  • #24
    “A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.”
    Elsa Schiaparelli
    tags: food

  • #25
    William Shakespeare
    “Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.”
    William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

  • #26
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “Parla come magni,' It means, 'Speak the way you eat,' or in my personal translation: 'Say it like you eat it.' It's a reminder - when you're making a big deal out of explaining something, when you're searching for the right words - to keep your language as simple and direct as Roman rood. Don't make a big production out of it. Just lay it on the table.”
    Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

  • #27
    Oscar Wilde
    “I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

  • #28
    Anthony Bourdain
    “Do we really want to travel in hermetically sealed popemobiles through the rural provinces of France, Mexico and the Far East, eating only in Hard Rock Cafes and McDonalds? Or do we want to eat without fear, tearing into the local stew, the humble taqueria's mystery meat, the sincerely offered gift of a lightly grilled fish head? I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once.”
    Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

  • #29
    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
    “All sorrows are less with bread. ”
    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

  • #30
    Mark Twain
    “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



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