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People have been cooking and eating for thousands of years, so if you are the very first to have thought of adding fresh lime juice to scalloped potatoes try to understand that there must be a reason for this.
Oct 2, 2025
If you want to know the people of a nation, I am sure you can judge a great deal more about them from their cooking and eating traditions than you can from the words and actions of their public officials.
Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.
Life is a combination of magic and pasta.
I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.
I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead - not sick, not wounded - dead.
No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, the wisdom of cookbook writers.
No one who cooks cooks alone.
A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.
The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe.
To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living.
Nobody seems more obsessed by diet than our antimaterialist, otherworldly, New Age, spiritual types. But if the material world is merely illusion, an honest guru should as content with Budweiser and bratwurst as with raw carrot juice, tofu, and seaweed slime.
Brunch, for me, is an extended breakfast that should be enjoyed whenever you have time properly to engage in cooking and eating.
Basically, I go to the local farmer's market and decide to what to cook then, depending on what I find. Either my wife or I cook, and we usually finish a bottle or two of wine by the time we are done cooking and eating.
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.
If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him... the people who give you their food give you their heart.
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.
The people who give you their food give you their heart.
He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.
A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.
All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.
We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink.
When it comes to cooking and eating, I always try to preach that life is about moderation. Even if I'm having beef for dinner, it's probably going to be a 3-4 ounce portion with heaps and heaps of vegetables.
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
Food is an important part of a balanced diet.
Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.
Show me who your friends are, and I will tell you what you are.
Alfred Austin said, "Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are."
A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.
What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.
Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.
One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.
I've long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk. Whether we're talking about unpasteurized Stilton, raw oysters or working for organized crime 'associates,' food, for me, has always been an adventure
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
Man is the only animal that can be bored.
Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.
People who love to eat are always the best people.
I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.
Food-what is chosen from the possibilities available, how it is presented, how it is eaten, with whom and when, and how much time is allotted to cooking and eating it-is one of the means by which a society creates itself and acts out its aims and fantasies.
One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.
Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.
Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.
Cooking done with care is an act of love.
Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.