The 25 Best Food Quotes We Think Of Every Time We Eat
"A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand."
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If you talk about food just as much as you eat it, you're in good company. We've got famous chefs and stars—Julia Child, Sophia Loren, Virginia Woolf—to thank for some of the greatest food quotes of all time. Do what you will with these: Memorize them, pin them, or print them out and tack them up all over your kitchen.
Orson Welles
"My doctor told me I had to stop throwing intimate dinners for four unless there are three other people."
Dolly Parton
"My weaknesses have always been food and men—in that order."
Thomas Keller
"A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe."
Fran Lebowitz
"My favorite animal is steak."
Paul Prudhomme
"You don't need a silver fork to eat good food."
Coco Chanel
"I only drink Champagne on two occasions, when I am in love and when I am not."
Harriet Van Horne
"Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all."
Julia Child
"People who love to eat are always the best people."
François de la Rochefoucauld
"To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art."
Anna Thomas
"We all eat, and it would be a sad waste of opportunity to eat badly."
Cesar Chavez
"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."
Judith Olney
"Always serve too much hot fudge sauce on hot fudge sundaes. It makes people overjoyed and puts them in your debt."
Guy Fieri
"Cooking is all about people. Food is maybe the only universal thing that really has the power to bring everyone together. No matter what culture, everywhere around the world, people eat together."
Julia Child
"The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook."
Irish Proverb
"Laughter is brightest where food is best."
Sarah Weinberg is the deputy editor at Delish and has covered food, travel, home, and lifestyle for a number of publications, including Food Network Magazine and Country Living. She's originally from the Bay Area, has an unhealthy affinity for the Real Housewives of Anywhere, and harbors strong feelings about fruit salad.
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