Famous Culinary Quotes

Jacques Pepin

Cooking is the art of adjustment.

Forrest Gump

Life is like a box of chocolates.

Bertolt Brecht

Grub first, then ethics.

Julia Child

Bon appetit!

Shakespeare

What foods these morsels be! (sic)

Lionel Bart

Food, glorious food!

Norman Kolpas

Food, like a loving touch or a glimpse of divine power,

has that ability to comfort.

Lin Yutang

If there is anything we are serious about,

it is neither religion nor learning, but food.

George Bernard Shaw

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

Craig Claiborne

Cooking is at once one of the simplest and most gratifying of the arts,

but to cook well one must love and respect food.

Harriet Van Horne

Cooking is like love, it should be

entered into with abandon or not at all.

Michael Pollan

Don't eat anything your great-great grandmother

 wouldn't recognize as food.

Paul Bertolli

Ripeness embodies all something has ever been,

and the most it ever will be.

Marion Cunningham

Home cooking is a catalyst that brings people together.

Marilyn Kaytor

Condiments are like old friends —

highly thought of, but often taken for granted. 

Andre Simon

Cookery is a wholly unselfish art: All good cooks,

like all great artists, must have an audience worth cooking for.

Grimod de la Reyniere

The kitchen is a country in which there are

always new discoveries to be made.

Russian Proverb

Love and eggs are best when they are fresh.

Edward Espe Brown

Cooking is a personal spiritual act.

Julia Child

Until I got into cooking,

I was never really interested in anything.