Gourmet Food Quotes

I'm not really into gourmet food; I'm the kind of guy who just stops by a place that looks good rather than heading for the restaurant of the moment.

To be a gourmet you must start early, as you must begin riding early to be a good horseman. You must live in France, your father must have been a gourmet. Nothing in life must interest you but your stomach.

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.

Actually, the true gourmet, like the true artist, is one of the unhappiest creatures existent. His trouble comes from so seldom finding what he constantly seeks: perfection.

The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach.

Sometimes the way to a man's heart is through his talleywacker.

The way to a man's heart is through his hanky pocket with a breadknife.

If you're afraid of butter, use cream.

My goal is to make Italian food clean and accessible and beautiful and tasty, with simple ingredients that people can find at a local grocery store, because people don't want to go to a gourmet shop in search of items that will sit in their pantry for years after they use just a teaspoon or pinch of them.

As with most fine things, chocolate has its season. There is a simple memory aid that you can use to determine whether it is the correct time to order chocolate dishes: any month whose name contains the letter A, E, or U is the proper time for chocolate.

Don't wreck a sublime chocolate experience by feeling guilty.

The quickest way to a man's heart is through his chest.

Some people who are obsessed with food become gourmet chefs. Others become eating disorders.

I'm a bit of a gourmet chef. I love cooking - mostly Thai food.

The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.

A complete lack of caution is perhaps one of the true signs of a real gourmet.

A complete lack of caution is perhaps one of the true signs of a real gourmet: he has no need for it, being filled as he is with a God-given and intelligently self-cultivated sense of gastronomical freedom.

I love you like a fat kid love cake.

I love you like a fat kid loves cake!

Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine.

Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.

All sorrows are less with bread.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

Look, there's no metaphysics on earth but chocolates.

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

But some of us are beginning to pull well away, in our irritation, from...the exquisite tasters, the vintage snobs, the three-star Michelin gourmets. There is, we feel, a decent area somewhere between boiled carrots and Beluga caviare, sour plonk and Chateau Lafitte, where we can take care of our gullets and bellies without worshipping them.

All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.

I don't like gourmet cooking or 'this' cooking or 'that' cooking. I like good cooking.

You might be a redneck if you consider pork and beans to be a gourmet food.

You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.

Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.

A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch.

What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.

I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

The difference between a gourmet and a gourmand we take to be this: a gourmet is he who selects, for his nice and learned delectation, the most choice delicacies, prepared in the most scientific manner; whereas the gourmand bears a closer analogy to that class of great eaters ill-naturedly (we dare say) denominated, or classed with, aldermen.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.

All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.

Once again, when you upgrade sensations from an addiction to a preference, you can enjoy things such as gourmet food and music, without having your happiness depend on them.

News is like food: it is the cooking and serving that makes it acceptable, not the material itself.

A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish.

After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.