- Enchant, stay beautiful and graceful, but do this, eat well. Bring the same consideration to the preparation of your food as you devote to your appearance. Let your dinner be a poem, like your dress. ——Charles Pierre Monselet,French journalist
- The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. —– Lucille Ball
- The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse. —–Jules Renard
- What is food to one, is to others bitter poison. —–Lucretius
- The devil hides in every credit card and cheese cake. —-John Smith
- Eggs Benedict is genius. Its eggs covered in eggs. I mean, come on, that person should be the president. —–Wylie Dufresne
- There is nothing like a plate or a bowl of hot soup, it’s wisp of aromatic steam making the nostrils quiver with anticipation, to dispel the depressing effects of a grueling day at the office or the shop, rain or snow in the streets, or bad news in the papers. —–Louis P. De Gouy, The Soup Book
- Eating with the fullest pleasure – pleasure, that is, that does not depend on ignorance – is perhaps the profoundest enactment of our connection with the world. In this pleasure we experience and celebrate our dependence and our gratitude, for we are living from mystery, from creatures we did not make and powers we cannot comprehend. —–Wendell Berry
- If junk food is the devil, then a sweet orange is as scripture. —–Audrey Foris
- Good food ends with good talk. —–Geoffrey Neighor
- Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know. —-John Keats
- I feel a recipe is only a theme, which an intelligent cook can play each time with a variation. —-~ Madame Benoit
- It’s a very odd thing As odd as can be That whatever Miss T. eats Turns into Miss T. —- Walter de la Mare
- After violent emotion most people and all boys demand food. —-Rudyard Kipling