Food Recipe Quotes

#1. If we do not change our negative habits toward climate change, we can count on worldwide disruptions in food production, resulting in mass migration, refugee crises and increased conflict over scarce natural resources like water and farm land. This is a recipe for major security problems.

Michael Franti

#2. Our ancestors, who were able to survive and reproduce under unimaginably harsh environmental circumstances, refined and perfected the human genetic recipe.

Mark Sisson

#3. He could take on anything and everything, it seemed, rather than leave himself time to reflect on his dissatisfaction with his life and what he might do about it.

Claire Tomalin

#4. A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe.

Thomas Keller

#5. I'm not an amazing cook. But I can follow a recipe!

Rachel McAdams

#6. Only a man could come up with something so ruthless, so essentially stupid and yet brutally effective.

Liane Moriarty

#7. Self-confidence without self-reliance is as useless as a cooking recipe without food. Self-confidence sees the possibilities of the individual; self-reliance realizes them. Self-confidence sees the angel in the unhewn block of marble; self-reliance carves it out for oneself.

William George Jordan

#8. Technology has become a force of nature. We can't control it. It comes blowing over the planet and there's nowhere for us to hide.

Don DeLillo

#9. Preparing the communal evening meal sometimes caused arguments. Every village in Sicily had a different recipe for squid and eels, disagreed on what herbs should be disbarred from the tomato sauce. And whether sausages should ever be baked.

Mario Puzo

#10. I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#11. The thing with food is that you can give 20 people the same recipe and the same ingredients, and somebody's going to make it better than somebody else, and that's the creativity of it. It's like music. You could have a bunch of people playing the same piece, and somebody's gonna play it better.

Dweezil Zappa

#12. I can make dressing - or stuffing. Y'all call it stuffing up here, we call it dressing down there. It's really good dressing. That family recipe was passed on, and I love to make that.

Edie Brickell

#13. I love fashion. For me, it's always interesting because I like to be able to mix up different styles and different brands, kind of like how my music taste or personality is. There's lots of influences.

Tinashe

#14. The Internet can give young people a fantastic platform to become financially independent and have global businesses without leaving Russia.

Dasha Zhukova

#15. But what little we did know, we brandished wildly like cavemen's clubs, slinging out stuff we felt tasted good. That was as intricate as our
game plan ever was - to make food that tasted good.

Bjorn Shen

#16. I'm going to break one of the rules of the trade here. I'm going to tell you some of the secrets of improvisation. Just remember - it's always a good idea to follow the directions exactly the first time you try a recipe. But from then on, you're on your own.

James Beard

#17. There was something about having a plan for dinner, a recipe in hand, that made her feel much less hostile about food.

Jennifer Crusie

#18. I'm a gastronome first and foremost. I have several bookshelves in my home full of cookbooks, foodie magazines and food writer books and I am always on the hunt for a great recipe or local foodie haunt to try.

Karen Walker

#19. One of the things I do as a food writer is to take a classic recipe made with meat, look at it a whole lot, and tinker with it according to my taste.

Crescent Dragonwagon

#20. I know their unstinted devotion to the free-market economy, provided it's their freedom and somebody else's economy.

John Le Carre

#21. War is just a violent way of doing what half the people do calmly in peacetime: using the other half for food, heat, machinery and sexual pleasure. Man is the pie that bakes and eats himself, and the recipe is separation.

Alasdair Gray

#22. I think, once recipes become digital, pirating a digital recipe and all the questions that you have with music and so forth will become pertinent to food as well.

Hod Lipson

#23. How to figure out the recipe of your life? Your body knows when it needs food. And it asks for it. But if your devouring self keeps asking for more food, pounds of unnecessary problems are added to your life.

Ruben Papian

#24. Promises controversy on a scale not seen since Samuel Huntington's Clash of Civilizations sought to reframe a new world order.

Stefan Halper

#25. This recipe is certainly silly. It says to separate two eggs, but it doesn't say how far to separate them.

Gracie Allen

#26. I love anything to do with cooking, from watching the Food Network to reading recipe books by Gordon Ramsay, Jamie Oliver and Levi Roots. My favourite types of cuisine are Asian and Caribbean, and I love cooking new recipes for my family.

Jourdan Dunn

#27. If God had created celery, it would only have two stalks, because that's the most that almost any recipe ever calls for.

Skint Foodie

#28. Remember to add the most important ingredient to every recipe you make - your love!

Diana Silva

#29. Celebration is a kind of food we all need in our lives, and each individual brings a special recipe or offering, so that together we will make a great feast. Celebration is a human need that we must not, and can not, deny. It is richer and fuller when many work and then celebrate together.

Corita Kent

#30. It's the perfect environment for prayer. Chanting in Greek ... is like a beautiful opera, but way better.

Troy Polamalu

#31. In England the rich own the poor and the men own the women.

Tom Stoppard

#32. Always look for the best ingredients, treat the food you cook with respect, always read the entire recipe first, be organized, and have fun.

April Bloomfield

#33. Cooking is an observation-based process that you can't do if you're so completely focused on a recipe.

Alton Brown

#34. I'm one of those guys that's going to show up to the field and try my best.

Marco Scutaro

#35. Eating it's way easier. Good for you. Man down! Man down!

Damon Suede

#36. In theory, food writing is an aid or a prelude to actual meals: you read a recipe, and then you cook. In practice - in a 'paradox' that Michael Pollan, among others, has identified - our current gastronomic fantasies, particularly on TV, have coincided with a decline in home cooking.

Bee Wilson

#37. A cookbook is only as good as its poorest recipe.

Julia Child

#38. Food feeds both the body and soul - there are clear reasons to eat a balanced diet, but there are also reasons you cling to your mom's secret chicken noodle soup recipe when you're sick.

Michael Mina