Food quotes from popular chefs, cooks, and notable writers

Food, food, glorious food. If you love food as much as the Bravojoy review team does, then you will love this great collection of quotes from chefs, cookies and other foodies.

“A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe.”

– Thomas Keller

“Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first.”

– Ernestine Ulmer

“Food for us comes from our relatives, whether they have wings or fins or roots. That is how we consider food. Food has a culture. It has a history. It has a story. It has relationships.”

– Winona LaDuke

“Food is symbolic of love when words are inadequate.”

– Alan D. Wolfelt

“My weaknesses have always been food and men – in that order.”

– Dolly Parton

“I watch cooking change the cook, just as it transforms the food.”

– Laura Esquivel

“I know once people get connected to real food, they never change back.”

– Alice Waters

“I cook with wine. Sometimes I even add it to the food.”

– W.C. Fields

“Food brings people together on many different levels. It’s nourishment of the soul and body; it’s truly love.”

– Giada De Laurentiis

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Literary Quotes About Food

Classic authors strangely have two things in common: a passion for writing and a passion for cooking. From fine dining to comfort foods, the Bravojoy review team has compiled a list of delicious and inspiring foodie quotes that might take you from your favorite book to the kitchen.

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

“And when they had finished the fish, Mrs Beaver brought unexpectedly out of the oven a great and gloriously sticky marmalade roll, steaming hot, and at the same time moved the kettle onto the fire, so that when they had finished the marmalade roll the tea was made and ready to be poured out.” - CS Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

“Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.” - Orson Welles

“Have a biscuit, Potter.” - J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“Eatable marshmallow pillows. Lickable wallpaper for nurseries. Hot ice creams for cold days. Cows that give chocolate milk. Fizzy lifting drinks. Square sweets that look round.” - Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

"Daisy and Tom were sitting opposite each other at the kitchen table with a plate of cold fried chicken between them and two bottles of ale. He was talking intently across the table at her and in his earnestness his hand had fallen upon and covered her own. Once in a while she looked up and nodded at him in agreement." - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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Healthy Eating Quotes Celebrating Better Food Choices

These healthy eating quotes curated by the Bravojoy review team will help you improve your diet.

1. “Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.” – Adelle Davis

2. “Healthy does NOT mean starving yourself EVER. Healthy means eating the right food in the right amount”. – Karen Salmansohn

3. “It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.” – Mahatma Gandhi

4. “If you keep good food in your fridge, you will eat good food.” – Errick McAdams

5. “After dinner rest a while; after supper walk a mile.” – T. Cogan

6. “Eating healthy food fills your body with energy and nutrients. Imagine your cells smiling back at you and saying: “Thank you!”.” – Karen Salmansohn

7. “When diet is wrong, medicine is of no use. When diet is correct, medicine is of no need”. – Ayurvedic Proverb

8. “Love yourself enough to live a healthy lifestyle.” – Jules Robson

9. “The food you eat can be either the safest and most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison.” – Ann Wigmore

10. “Sorry, there´s no magic bullet. You gotta eat healthy and live healthy to be healthy and look healthy. End of story.” ― Morgan Spurlock

Healthy eating quotes to help you improve your diet

11. “The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.” – Mark Twain

12. “To keep the body in good health is a duty, otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.” ― Buddha

13. “A fit body, a calm mind, a house full of love. These things cannot be bought – they must be earned.” – Naval Ravikant

14. “It is exercise alone that supports the spirits and keeps the mind in vigor.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero

15. “Your diet is a bank account. Good food choices are good investments.” – Bethenny Frankel

16. “Those who think they have no time for healthy eating will sooner or later have to find time for illness.” – Edward Stanley

17. “Don’t allow a love problem or work problem to become an eating problem. Stop trying to stuff your feelings down with food.” – Karen Salmansohn

18. “An apple a day keeps the doctor away” – Proverb

19. “In my food world, there is no fear or guilt, only joy and balance. So no ingredient is ever off-limits. Rather, all of the recipes here follow my Usually-Sometimes-Rarely philosophy. Notice there is no Never.” ― Ellie Krieger

20. “Healthy eating is a way of life, so it’s important to establish routines that are simple, realistically, and ultimately livable.” – Horace

21. “Eating crappy food isn’t a reward — it’s a punishment.” ― Drew Carey

22. “From the bitterness of disease man learns the sweetness of health.” –Catalan Proverb

23. “The human body is the best picture of the human soul.” – Tony Robbins

24. “Moderation. Small helpings. Sample a little bit of everything. These are the secrets of happiness and good health.” – Julia Child

25. “Any food that requires enhancing by the use of chemical substances should in no way be considered a food.” – John H. Tobe

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Healthy Eating Quotes to Motivate You to Make Better Choices

As much as we want to make healthy food choices, it can be hard to stick with a balanced diet when the comfort and ease of less virtuous options are all around. So, to help you reach those goals, the Bravojoy review team have included a few easy-to-follow tips for making better choices.

1. “Came from a plant, eat it; was made in a plant, don't.” – Michael Pollan, author and journalisttter Containers Go To Waste

2. “It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.” – Mahatma Gandhi, lawyer and anti-colonial nationalist

3. “When diet is wrong, medicine is of no use. When diet is correct, medicine is of no need.” – Ayurvedic Proverb

4. “If you keep good food in your fridge, you will eat good food.” – Errick McAdams, personal trainer

5. “The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition.” – Thomas Edison, inventor and businessman

6. “Sorry, there’s no magic bullet. You gotta eat healthy and live healthy to be healthy and look healthy. End of story.” – Morgan Spurlock, documentarian, filmmaker and producer

7. “Let food be thy medicine, thy medicine shall be thy food.” – Hippocrates, Ancient Greek physician

8. “To keep the body in good health is a duty, otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.” – Buddha, philosopher and spiritual teacher

9. “Moderation. Small helpings. Sample a little bit of everything. These are the secrets of happiness and good health.” – Julia Child, cookbook author and TV personality

10. “The first wealth is health.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist, lecturer and poet

11. “You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” – Margaret Thatcher, former Prime Minister of the U.K.

12. “Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper.” – Adelle Davis, author and nutritionist

13. “Your diet is a bank account. Good food choices are good investments.” – Bethenny Frankel, reality T.V. personality and entrepreneur

14. “Proper nutrition is the difference between feeling exhausted and getting the most out of a workout.” – Summer Sanders, sports commentator and former Olympic swimmer

15. “Exercise is king. Nutrition is queen. Put them together and you’ve got a kingdom.” – Jack LaLanne, fitness and nutrition expert and T.V. personality

16. “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” – Robert Collier, author

17. “To ensure good health: eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness and maintain an interest in life.” – William Londen, bookseller and bibliographer

18. “I try to stay out of the mindset of needing to fix myself. I do whatever seems fun to me.” – Taylor Schilling, actress

19. “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu, philosopher and writer

20. “Healthy eating isn’t about counting fat grams, dieting, cleanses and antioxidants; it’s about eating food untouched from the way we find it in nature in a balanced way.” – Pooja Mottl, author and women's advocate

21. “Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.” – Jim Rohn, author and motivational speaker

22. “By choosing healthy over skinny, you are choosing self-love over self-judgment.” – Steve Maraboli, author, behaviorist and veteran

23. “Eating healthy food fills your body with energy and nutrients. Imagine your cells smiling back at you and saying: ‘Thank you!’” – Karen Salmansohn, designer and self-help author

24. “Health is like money. We never have a true idea of its value until we lose it.” – Josh Billings, humor writer and lecturer

25. “Your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.” – Anthony Bourdain, chef, author and travel documentarian

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Delicious Food Quotes

If you love a good food quote, especially when its author is able to convey something meaningful (or hunger inducing) in a matter of a sentence or two, then you will love these quotes curated by the Bravojoy review team. Enjoy!

1. “Winter blues are cured every time with a potato gratin paired with a roast chicken.” -Alex Guarnaschelli

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

3. “Culture, when it comes to food, is a fancy word for your mom.” -Michael Pollan

4. “I cook with wine. Sometimes I even add it to the food.” -W.C. Fields

5. “Growing up, I spent my childhood summers on my mother’s family farm in Puglia where I learned to make fresh pasta and olive oil and jar tomato sauce from my mother and several of her sisters.” -Donatella Arpaia

6. “At home I serve the kind of food I know the story behind.” -Michael Pollan

7. “You don’t have to do everything from scratch. Nobody wants to make puff pastry!” -Ina Garten

8. “If someone crafts an interesting tweet that’ll lead me to their blog, I’m going to their blog.” -Anthony Bourdain

9. “Pasta doesn’t make you fat. How much pasta you eat makes you fat.” -Giada De Laurentiis

10. “CHEESE – milk’s leap towards immortality.” -Clifton Fadiman

11. “We are fat and sick and dying because we have handed a basic, fundamental and intimate function of life over to corporations. We choose to value our nourishment so little that we entrust it to strangers. This is insanity. Feed yourselves. Feed your loved ones. And for God’s sake, feed your children.” -Alton Brown

12. “Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don’t have.” -Anthony Bourdain

13. “Please be a traveler, not a tourist. Try new things, meet new people, and look beyond what’s right in front of you. Those are the keys to understanding this amazing world we live in.” -Andrew Zimmern

14. “If organic farming is the natural way, shouldn’t organic produce just be called ‘produce’ and make the pesticide-laden stuff take the burden of an adjective?” -Ymber Delecto

15. “I think one of the terrible things today is that people have this deathly fear of foods: fear of eggs, say, or fear of butter. Most doctors feel that you can have a little bit of everything.” -Julia Child

16. “Sometimes the greatest meals on vacations are the ones you find when Plan A falls through.” -Anthony Bourdain

17. “Food is an important part of a balanced diet.” -Fran Lebowitz

18. “One cannot think, love, sleep well if one has not dined well.” -Virginia Woolf

19. “Please go to this pizzeria. Order the Margherita pizza with double mozzarella. If you do not eat this pizza when you are in Naples, please lie to me and tell me that you did.” -Elizabeth Gilbert

20. “Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.” -Erma Bombeck

21. “Be simple. Be honest. Don’t overcook and don’t undercook, but it’s better to undercook than overcook.” -James Beard

22. “I’ve long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk. Whether we’re talking aboutunpasteurized stilton, raw oysters or working for organized crime ‘associates,’ food, for me, has always been an adventure.” -Anthony Bourdain

23. “Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; and good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts.” -James Beard

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Funny quotes about cooking that will have you tearing up (and not from the onions!)

Here are some rather funny quotes selected by the Bravojoy review team about cooking and the joys of it!

I hate when I go to the kitchen for food and all I find are ingredients.

Today’s menu has two choices TAKE IT or LEAVE IT.

The salt is to the food, what soul is to the body.

No one is born a great cook, one learns by doing. – Julia Child

You don’t have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces, just good food from fresh ingredients. – Julia Child

People who love to eat are always the best people. – Julia Child

Cooking well doesn’t mean cooking fancy. – Julia Child

The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for the steak to cook. – Julia Child

Until I discovered cooking, I was never really interested in anything. – Julia Child

You are the butter to my bread, and the breath to my life. – Julia Child

Fat gives things flavor. – Julia Child

If you’re afraid of butter, use cream. – Julia Child

I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate. – Julia Child

A party without cake is just a meeting. – Julia Child

The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you’ve got to have a what-the-hell attitude. – Julia Child

In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport. – Julia Child

You are the BOSS of that dough. – Julia Child

with enough butter anything is good. – Julia Child

Usually, one’s cooking is better than one thinks it is. – Julia Child

FOOD is essential to LIFE; Therefore MAKE IT GOOD.

Love and sausage are alike. Can never have enough of either. – Trixie Koontz

The kitchen is SPRINKLED with love.

Cake makes life just a little sweeter.

All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast. – John Gunther

No matter what happens in the kitchen, never apologize.

Food is memories..!!

Cooking is at once child’s play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love. – Craig Claiborne

My favorite thing to do at Home is..COOK!

I read recipes the same way I read science fiction. I get to the end and I think, “Well, that’s not going to happen.”

I came..I saw..I decided to order take out!

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The Best Cooking Quotes of all Time

If your big dream is to become a renown chef, then take note of this collection of the best cooking quotes of all time to inspire you, curated by the Bravojoy review team.

“Most seafoods should be simply threatened with heat and then celebrated with joy.” – Jeff Smith

“Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art. It requires instinct and taste rather than exact measurements.” – Marcel Boulestin

“Cuisine has become too complicated — this is about subject, verb, adjective: duck, turnips, sauce.” – Alain Ducasse

“Life is too short for self-hatred and celery sticks.” – Marilyn Wann

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

“Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.” – Adelle Davis

“Fish, to taste right, must swim three times — in water, in butter and in wine.” – Polish Proverb

“You don’t have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces – just good food from fresh ingredients.” – Julia Child

“Banish the onion from the kitchen and the pleasure flies with it.” – Elizabeth Robbins Pennell

“When baking, follow directions. When cooking, go by your own taste.” – Laiko Bahrs

“The greatest dishes are very simple.” – Auguste Escoffier

”Life is a combination of magic and pasta.” – Federico Fellini

“Popcorn for breakfast! Why not? It’s a grain. It’s like, like, grits, but with high self-esteem.” – James Patterson

“We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.” – David Mamet

”Anything is good if it’s made of chocolate.” – Jo Brand

”The preparation of good food is merely another expression of art, one of the joys of civilized living.” – Dione Lucas

”Fat gives things flavor.” – Julia Child

“Cooking is an observation-based process that you can’t do if you’re so completely focused on a recipe.” – Alton Brown

“I think every woman should have a blowtorch.” – Julia Child

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