Top 100 Quotes About Good Food
#1. You can't just eat good food. You've got to talk about it too. And you've got to talk about it to somebody who understands that kind of food.
Kurt Vonnegut
#2. If you have good food, people will come to your restaurant.
Mickey Gilley
#3. Good food does lead to sex. As it should. And in a perfect world, good music does too.
Anthony Bourdain
#4. I resent when I go out to dinner and they try to sell me the healthy food for the same price as the good food.
Jim Gaffigan
#5. Russia will occupy most of the good food lands of central Europe while we have the industrial portions. We must find some way of persuading Russia to play ball.
Henry L. Stimson
#6. Good food for free has been the holy grail of foragers since our ancestors first climbed down from the trees.
Tristram Stuart
#7. People are always asking me what the world will be like economically in the year 2000. I do know this: in the year 2000, no matter what else happens, there will still be good food in France.
Guy De Rothschild
#8. I love dive bars, old movie theaters, live music and good food. The simplest things in life for me are the most important.
Tanya Fischer
#9. Good food is always a trouble and its preparation should be regarded as a labour of love.
Elizabeth David
#10. This story about good food begins in a quick-stop convenience market.
Barbara Kingsolver
#11. I love good food and I love to eat in nice restaurants. I love Japanese food. I love Gordon Ramsay in London; he is pretty amazing.
Isla Fisher
#12. It's important for me who is at the table with me; the moment when everyone speaks to each other and everyone listens. If there's good food, it's much better.
Andrea Bocelli
#14. Of course, we all need to have basic necessities met, such as good health care, good food, good education and good housing. But what is good? Having too much is bad, as having too little is also bad.
Satish Kumar
#15. Really, I am just a guy who likes his profession and travelling and good food, and that is it. I'm no different from you or anyone else.
Hasnat Khan
#16. If we could only live on good food like that, he said to her somewhat loudly, we wouldn't have the country full of rotten teeth and rotten guts. Living in a bogswamp, eating cheap food and the streets paved with dust, horsedung and consumptives' spits.
James Joyce
#17. I fell in love with the Mediterranean philosophy of good wine, good food and family.
Stephen White
#18. I prefer not to have among my guests two people or more, of any sex, who are in the first wild tremours of love. It is better to invite them after their new passion has settled, has solidified into a quieter reciprocity of emotions. (It is also a waste of good food, to serve it to new lovers.)
M.F.K. Fisher
#20. I love food. I'm a big food person. I'm really passionate about eating good food all the time.
Dreama Walker
#21. I'm not someone who obsesses about what they eat, but I do try to eat consciously and towards it being something that is super enjoyable. I love good food.
Stephanie Ellis
#22. [My ideal of a good dinner] is to discuss good food, and, after this good food has been discussed, to discuss a good topic - with myself the chief conversationalist.
Winston Churchill
#24. I want to go to Africa and find a really great hotel with good food right above a water hole where I can sit, have breakfast, and just watch the elephants play in the water.
David Crosby
#25. There are certain comforts of living here in Dubai, the comforts of so many mosques and so much good food ... It's just that much more secure. And may God keep it safe.
Cat Stevens
#26. It takes a lot of hard work, devotion, good food, balanced diet, enough money, etcetera. Do you have any of them?
Waheed Ibne Musa
#27. Eat good food, keep moving, and let your body take care of the rest.
Stephen Le
#28. Eating good food is my favourite thing in the whole world. Nothing is more blissful.
Justine Larbalestier
#30. Understanding capitalism is in some ways simple. At its best, capitalism rewards creators, makers and providers: the people and firms that create valuable things for others, like imaginative technologies and good food, cars and drugs.
Geoff Mulgan
#31. Once you understand how the ingredients work together, then you can go off on your own. Till then, you're just wasting good food and everybody's time.
Natalie Baszile
#32. It was an impressive display of good food abused in the name of fashionable cooking.
Robin Hobb
#33. I think people at least now, as opposed to ten-15-20 years ago, kind of get it, what is the bad food. I think, before, there was a time when they didn't even get it that processed food was hurting them. Now, I think they get that, but the big enemies to switching over to good food are convenience.
Mark Bittman
#34. Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.
Edith Sitwell
#35. Nobody trusts the industrial food system to give them good food.
Joel Salatin
#36. You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
Julia Child
#37. I don't enjoy good food. I don't enjoy flashy cars. I don't care if I live in a dump. I don't enjoy good clothes. This is the best I've dressed in months.
Jack Kevorkian
#38. Good food is healthy food. Food is supposed to sustain you so you can live better, not so you can eat more. Some people eat to live, and some people live to eat.
Yolanda Adams
#39. A man who loves good food has a way of making it gravitate toward his kitchen.
Angelo Pellegrini
#40. What I've enjoyed most, though, is meeting people who have a real interest in food and sharing ideas with them. Good food is a global thing and I find that there is always something new and amazing to learn - I love it!
Jamie Oliver
#41. I love Spanish food. My diet is the Mediterranean diet, which is good food. I eat well.
Penelope Cruz
#42. It's easy to impress me. I don't need a fancy party to be happy. Just good friends, good food, and good laughs. I'm happy. I'm satisfied. I'm content.
Maria Sharapova
#43. I love good food but I follow strict rules the days I perform.
Jose Carreras
#44. There are many places that people can produce really good food. I wouldn't limit it to an area of the country, it's what the chefs have in them.
Anne Burrell
#45. Live each day like you are celebrating your birthday - that is what life wants for you. Engage with family and friends. Indulge in good food, music and dance. You are precious to life.
Pooja Ruprell
#47. Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.
Dalai Lama
#48. Luxury is anything you don't need, right? I mean, you need food, water, clothing, shelter ... but good wine, good food, beautiful interiors, nice clothes; those aren't necessities, they are luxuries - it's all luxury.
Marc Jacobs
#49. Then you get to be involved with all the people, meet all the beautiful girls, get all the good food, get ready and locked in before all the crowds hit.
Paul Kantner
#50. It as if you took a lot of very good food and some dog excrement and blended it all up so that you can't possibly figure out what's good or bad. It's an intimate mixture of rubbish and good ideas, and it's very hard to disentangle the two, because these are smart people; they're not stupid.
Douglas Hofstadter
#53. And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.
Honore De Balzac
#54. I like to put good food in my mouth, and while I am aware of the calories I ingest, instead of cutting them I make them count. I have a full-on love affair with food, appreciating the different cultures and processes within it.
Brittany Gibbons
#55. I feel that good food should be a right and not a privilege, and it needs to be without pesticides and herbicides. And everybody deserves this food. And that's not elitist.
Alice Waters
#56. I love chicken and anything to do with chicken. I love anything that's homemade. Oh, and BBQ. And I love green beans. There is so much good food. I can go on and on and on.
Phillip Phillips
#57. The way you teach a child to eat well is through example, enthusiasm, and patient exposure to good food. And when that fails, you lie.
Bee Wilson
#58. There are three ways you can get along with a girl: one, shut up and listen to what she has to say; two, tell her you like what she's wearing; and three, treat her to really good food ... If you do all that and still don't get the results you want, better give up.
Haruki Murakami
#59. [S]leep, and enough of it, is the prime necessity. Enough exercise, and good food and enough, are other necessities. But sleep - good sleep, and enough of it - this is a necessity without which you cannot have the exercise of use, nor the food.
Edward Everett Hale
#60. The best life you can have as you get into old age is good food, good teeth to eat it with, and few worries when you go to bed at night.
Amy Tan
#61. The greatest lesson came with the realization that good food cannot be reduced to single ingredients. It requires a web of relationships to support it.
Dan Barber
#62. How did you know about the pool?" I asked my mother. "Colt told Morrie, Morrie told Jack, Jack told me," Mom answered. Next time I ran away from home, I was going to a big city. The biggest. In China. Where not only were there billions of people, I didn't speak their language and they had good food.
Kristen Ashley
#63. Good food is an amazing blessing. Whenever you can sit down at a table, eat food that is extremely delicious, and are surrounded by people you love ... it's: Wow, life is good.
Alicia Keys
#64. The time has come to reclaim the stolen harvest and celebrate the growing and giving of good food as the highest gift and the most revolutionary act.
Vandana Shiva
#65. In Spain we have a saying about the essentials of life: good food, good wine, good sex, good sleep.
Antonio Banderas
#66. My work has also motivated me to put a lot of time into seeking out good food and to spend more money on it.
Michael Pollan
#67. Drinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life's most civilized pleasures.
Michael Broadbent
#68. My secret for staying young is good food, plenty of rest, and a makeup man with a spray gun.
Bob Hope
#70. What I remember the most about my childhood is constant fear and "good food." I don't want to get into the greasy, buttery, deep-fried, fatty, sugary, meaty, barbecued details here, but with no knowledge of healthy lifestyles or positive psychology, time took its toll on me.
Bryant H. McGill
#71. Good food and a warm kitchen are what makes a house a home. I always tried to make my home like my mother's, because Mom was magnificent at stretching a buck when it came to decorating and food. Like a true Italian, she valued beautification in every area of her life, and I try to do the same.
Rachael Ray
#72. There is absolutely no substitute for the best. Good food cannot be made of inferior ingredients masked with high flavor. It is true thrift to use the best ingredients available and to waste nothing.
James Beard
#73. Good food, fresh water, and an occasional sweet and someone to care for. That's what everyone should have. A simplistic and unrealistic view I knew, but it soothed me.
Maria V. Snyder
#75. They served "Good Food" but only a G, an O and a D were lit up. Personally, I doubted God dined there. Unless God was keen on samonella poisoning and rat droppings in the hamburgers. But then again, what did I know?
Julie Kenner
#76. People will travel anywhere for good food - it's crazy.
Rene Redzepi
#77. Happy we were the, for we had a good house, and good food and good work.
Richard Llewellyn
#80. Good food, good sex, good digestion, good sleep: to these basic animal pleasures, man has added nothing but the good cigarette.
Mignon McLaughlin
#81. My father was a food lover and a deadbeat dad, and maybe a connection between good food and bad dads was forged early, in the deepest folds of my subconscious, where we make so many decisions about our parents.
J.R. Moehringer
#82. Rather than being about what foods to avoid and why, The Essential Good Food Guide is an introduction or a reminder of what good food is and what to do with it.
Margaret M. Wittenberg
#83. Hard work should be rewarded by good food.
Ken Follett
#84. Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind; therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.
Swami Vivekananda
#85. If you can't afford the good food or if you can't afford health care or if you don't have a job or if your car is dangerous because you can't get it fixed and you DIE, you just lost the game-bzzzzz-thanks for playing extreme capitalism.
Marc Maron
#87. I read somewhere that abs are made in the kitchen, and I'd like to agree. I like to think that I try to eat pretty clean, pretty good food.
Parker Young
#88. I'd rather have a good food - lots and lots of different varieties of good foods - than search for something perfect.
Bee Wilson
#89. I don't want to do anything and everything. I want to be a brand that, every time I leverage my name, I want people to feel sure that it's going to be something good - so whether it be my movies, my perfume, my restaurant, my musical, it'll be good work, good food and good everything.
Shilpa Shetty
#90. A lot of restaurants serve good food, but they don't have very good service.
Wolfgang Puck
#91. If time, so fleeting, must like humans die, let it be filled with good food and good talk, and then embalmed in the perfumes of conviviality.
M.F.K. Fisher
#92. I don't want to spend my life not having good food going into my pie hole. That hole was made for pies.
Paula Deen
#93. As far as luxury goes, about the only thing I do is ... I go first class all the way. I live on the road, so when I'm out there, I'm getting the nice hotel suite, I'm getting the luxury car, I'm eating the good food, and I make sure I take care of myself on the road.
Trish Stratus
#94. I love really good food and I don't ever want to spend too much for it, but I like hanging out and having really good, tasty, interesting food.
Kris Allen
#95. I think food is getting lighter and healthier because people eat out so often. It's about quality ingredients because that is the root of good food.
Jean-Georges Vongerichten
#96. I'm very conscious about putting good food into my body. Years ago, I went to see an amazing healer called Allah, who could read your body. She told me that I can't absorb vitamins very well, and I have to eat the right things to get my vitamins. I've always remembered that.
Trinny Woodall
#97. Steakhouses sort of have this old-school nature to them; they're like museums full of good food. It's fun hearing the waiter share his expertise on the different cuts of beef and how they're going to cut up your baked potato.
Jim Gaffigan
#99. Food is for eating, and good food is to be enjoyed ... I think food is, actually, very beautiful in itself.
Delia Smith
#100. It is no more necessary that a man should remember the different dinners and suppers which have made him healthy, than the different books which have made him wise. Let us see the results of good food in a strong body, and the results of great reading in a full and powerful mind.
Sydney Smith
