Quotations

Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are. –Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755 – 1826), The Physiology of Taste, 1825

Health food makes me sick. –Calvin Trillin (1935 – )

Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast. –Epictetus (55 AD – 135 AD)

You don’t have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces – just good food from fresh ingredients.
Julia Child (1912 – 2004)

Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside. –Mark Twain (1835 – 1910)

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch. –Orson Welles (1915 – 1985)

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat. –Socrates (469 BC – 399 BC)

Those who forget the pasta are condemned to reheat it.

He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise. ~Henry David Thoreau

The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and in the passive. ~William Ralph Inge

I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food. –W. C. Fields