Food quotes
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“A recipe has no soul. You, as the
cook, must bring soul to the recipe.”
– Thomas Keller
2
“Food is symbolic of love when
words are inadequate.”
– Alan D. Wolfelt
3
“I watch cooking change the cook,
just as it transforms the food.”
– Laura Esquivel
4
“You don’t need a silver fork to
eat good food.”
– Paul Prudhomme
5
“The belly rules the mind.”
– Spanish Proverb
6
“The secret of food lies in memory
– of thinking and then knowing what the taste of cinnamon or steak is.”
– Jerry Saltz
7
“Eating is so intimate. It’s very
sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for
them, you’re inviting a person into your life.”
– Maya Angelou
8
“Only the pure in heart can make a
good soup.”
– Ludwig van Beethoven
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“Food is our common ground, a
universal experience.”
–James Beard
10
“If more of us valued food and
cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
–J.R.R. Tolkien
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“One cannot think well, love well,
sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
–Virginia Woolf
12
“After a good dinner one can
forgive anybody, even one's own relations.”
― Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No
Importance
13
“When I give food to the poor, they
call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a
communist.”
― Dom Helder Camara, Dom Helder
Camara: Essential Writings
14
“All sorrows are less with bread. ”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
15
“I like a cook who
smiles out loud when he tastes his own work.
Let God worry about your modesty; I want to see
your enthusiasm.”
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“Thanksgiving
dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes.
Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.”
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“To a hungry person, every bitter
food is sweet. When the preferable is not available, the available becomes
preferable!”
― Israelmore Ayivor
18
“Laughter is brightest in the place
where food is.”
– Irish Proverb
19
“A crust eaten in peace is better
than a banquet partaken in anxiety.”
– Aesop
20
“Cooking is like painting or
writing a song. Just as there are only so many notes or colors, there are only
so many flavors—it’s how you combine them that sets you apart.”
– Wolfgang Puck
21
“If you are a chef, no matter how
good a chef you are, it’s not good cooking for yourself; the joy is in cooking
for others. It’s the same with music.”
– will.i.am
22
“Real cooking is more about
following your heart than following recipes.”
– Unknown
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“Cooking is at once child’s play
and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.”
– Craig Claiborne
24
“Cooking
is love made edible.” — Unknown
25
“Once you understand the
foundations of cooking—whatever kind you like, whether it’s French or Italian
or Japanese—you really don’t need a cookbook anymore.” — Thomas Keller
26
“Taste as you go. When you taste
the food throughout the cooking process, you can make adjustments as you go.” —
Anne Burrell
27
“Fifty thousand dollars’ worth of
cabinets isn’t going to make you a better cook; cooking is going to make you a
better cook. At the end of the day, you can slice a mushroom in about three
inches of space, and you can carve a chicken in a foot and a half. So it
doesn’t matter how big the kitchen is.” — Tyler Florence
28
“I feel a recipe is only a theme
which an intelligent cook can play each time with a variation.” — Madam Benoit
29
“Cooking with kids is not just
about ingredients, recipes, and cooking. It’s about harnessing imagination,
empowerment, and creativity.” — Guy Fieri
30
“I don’t cook for the guide, I cook
for customers.” — Gordon Ramsay
31
“Cooking and baking is both
physical and mental therapy.” — Mary Berry
32
“Cooking is a philosophy; it’s not
a recipe.” — Marco Pierre White
33
“Simple ingredients prepared in a
simple way – that’s the best way to take your everyday cooking to a higher
level.” — Jose Andres
34
“No one is born a great cook, one
learns by doing.” — Julia Child
35
“This is my invariable advice to
people: Learn how to cook — try new recipes, learn from your mistakes, be
fearless and above all have fun!” — Julia Child
36
“Cooking with love provides food
for the soul.” — Valerie McKeehan
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“Cooking done with care is an act
of love.” — Craig Claiborne
38
“Cooking is like painting or
writing a song. Just as there are only so many notes or colors, there are only
so many flavors—it’s how you combine them that sets you apart.” – Wolfgang Puck
39
“Cookery is not chemistry. It is an
art. It requires instinct and taste rather than exact measurements.”
40
“For me, cooking is an expression
of the land where you are and the culture of that place.” – Wolfgang Puck
41
“Cooking is about creating
something delicious for someone else.” — Ayumi Komura
42
“Cooking may be as much a means of
self-expression as any of the arts.” ― Fannie Farmer
43
“Cooking and eating are a feast of
colors, smells, and tastes.” — Remez Sasson
44
“Cooking is about imbibing
different cultures and putting them in a plate on the table.” — Johnny Iuzzini
45
“Cooking requires confident
guesswork and improvisation—experimentation and substitution, dealing with
failure and uncertainty in a creative way.”
– Paul Theroux
46
“The only real stumbling block is
fear of failure. In cooking, you’ve got to have a what-the-hell attitude.”
– Julia Child
47
“Cooking demands attention,
patience, and above all, a respect for the gifts of the earth. It is a form of
worship, a way of giving thanks.”
– Judith B. Jones
“Cooking is both simpler and more
necessary than we imagine.” ― Tamar Adler
48
“No one who cooks, cooks alone.
Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations
of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, the wisdom of cookbook
writers.” — Laurie Colwin
49
“Cooking is one failure after
another, and that’s how you finally learn.” — Julia Child
50
“Cooking has always brought me a
happiness that I didn’t think was available. I just fire up the stove, and
things start to fade away.” ― Paula Deen
51
“An agrarian mind begins with the
love of fields and ramifies in good farming, good cooking & good eating.” ―
Wendell Berry
52
“Cooking is an art form and the
kitchen is your canvas.” ― Emeril Lagasse
"Water is the most neglected
nutrient in your diet, but one of the most vital." – Julia Child.
53
"Every time you eat or drink,
you're either feeding disease or fighting it." - Heather Morgan
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"When diet is wrong, medicine
is of no use. When diet is correct, medicine is of no need." – Ayurvedic
Proverb
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"The food you eat can be the
safest and most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison."
-Ann Wigmore
56
"Every time you eat is an
opportunity to nourish your body." – Unknown.
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"Nature is the best
physician." - Hippocrates
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"Real food doesn’t have
ingredients. Real food is the ingredients." - Jamie Oliver
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"Nature is so smart, it puts
medicine in the food." - David Wolfe
60
"Add more foods without labels
so that you can focus on counting nutrients over calories." - Food Matters
61
"Health is a daily practice,
not a 30-day diet." - Unknown
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"Food should be cleansing, it
should be restorative, and it should be fun." - James Colquhoun
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"Nutrition is not low fat.
It’s not low calories. It’s not being hungry and feeling deprived. It’s
nourishing your body with real, wholesome food so that you are consistently
satisfied and energized to live life to the fullest." – Anonymous
64
“I would rather be on my farm than
be emperor of the world.” – George Washington
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“To be a farmer is to be a student
forever, for each day brings something new.” -John Connell
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“To forget how to dig the earth and
to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.” -Mahatma Gandhi
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“Agriculture is our wisest pursuit,
because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and
happiness.” – Thomas Jefferson
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“The story of family farming
underscores a legacy of sustainability.” – Amanda Zaluckyj
69
“We have neglected the truth that a
good farmer is a craftsman of the highest order, a kind of artist.” – Wendell
Berry
70
“Do what you love to do, and be
around things that make you smile. The cows make me smile every day.” – David
Jackson
71
“My dream is to become a farmer.
Just a Bohemian guy pulling up his own sweet potatoes for dinner.” – Lenny
Kravitz
72
“The farm is part of me.” – Erich
Wehrenberg
73
“Farming is a matter of dirt and
dung. It is not the kind of thing we look to to find the meaning of human life.
It is too ordinary, too inescapably a part of life to be interesting. We know
that it has to be done, but see no reason to pay much attention to it. But it
is just because farming is inescapably a part of human life that it may provide
a clue to what is most basically human, and so a clue to our place within the
cosmos.” – Stephanie Nelson
74
“Life on a farm is a school of
patience; you can’t hurry the crops or make an ox in two days.” – Henri Alain
75
“The discovery of agriculture was
the first big step toward a civilized life.” – Arthur Keith
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“Agriculture is the greatest and
fundamentally the most important of our industries. The cities are but the
branches of the tree of national life, the roots of which go deeply into the
land. We all flourish or decline with the farmer.” – Bernard Baruch
77
“Agriculture not only gives riches
to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.” – Samuel Johnson
78
“Agriculture is the noblest of all
alchemy; for it turns earth, and even manure, into gold, conferring upon its
cultivator the additional reward of health.” – Paul Chatfield
79
“If the rain spoils our picnic, but
saves a farmer’s crop, who are we to say it shouldn’t rain?” – Tom Barrett
80
“If you tickle the earth with a hoe
she laughs with a harvest.” – Douglas Jerrold
81
“The goal of any farmer, after
producing enough to feed his own family, has always been to find the best place
to sell the year’s crop.” – Sonny Perdue
82
“It is impossible to have a healthy
and sound society without a proper respect for the soil.” – Peter Maurin
83
“Agriculture was the first
occupation of man, and as it embraces the whole earth, it is the foundation of
all other industries.” – Edward W. Stewart
84
“My grandfather used to say that
once in your life you need a doctor, a lawyer, a policeman and a preacher, but
every day, three times a day, you need a farmer.” – Brenda Schoepp
85
“If the farmer is poor then so is
the whole country.” — Polish Proverb
86
“A farmer is a magician who
produces money from the mud.” — Amit Kalantri
87
“The farmer is a born philosopher,
the aristocrat has to learn how.” — Polish Proverb
88
“The farmer hopes for rain, the
walker hopes for sunshine, and the gods hesitate.” — Chinese Proverb
89
“Farming isn’t something that can be taught.
Each plant tells its own story that has to be read repeatedly.” — Kelsey
Timmerman
90
“Tools were made and born were
hands, Every farmer understands.” ― William Blake
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“Know you food, know your farmers,
and know your kitchen.” ― Joel Salatin
92
“I am a farmer singing at the
plow.” ― Jesse Stuart
93
“Never underestimate a farmer.” —
Lance Conrad
94
“Farming is intrinsically about
sustaining land, family, and community.” — Hal Hamilton
95
“Agriculture is the most healthful,
most useful and most noble employment of man.” — George Washington
96
“The first farmer was the first
man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.” — Ralph
Waldo Emerson
97
Humans lived for several million
years as fully wild beings: only in the last 10, 000 did we invent agriculture;
only in the last couple of centuries did we invent industry. We are a species
that has spent 99 per cent of its history as hunter-gatherers. We haven't had
time for our unconscious minds and our unconscious needs to have changed. If
you like, our souls have not changed, and this is true whether or not we
believe that we have them.
Simon Barnes
98
“Civilization transformed man from
a food gatherer to a gatherer of pieces of paper: diplomas, employment
contracts, money, etc.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
99
When we were in our hunter-gatherer
tribes, the food we ate was often simple and repetitive. Our choices were
dictated by geography and climate.- Dr.Chatterjee
100
Agriculture, he said, profoundly
affected the diet, health and societal structure of humans. While
hunter-gatherers ate about 150 species of plants, once corn was domesticated,
75 percent of North Americans' diet was corn based within a few hundred years.[Cornell
Chronicle]
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“To a farmer, dirt is not a waste,
it is wealth.” — Amit Kalantrirge Washington
102
“Prosperous farmers make for a
prosperous nation, and when farmers are in trouble, the nation is in trouble.”
― Harry S. Truman
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“The farmers are the founders of
civilization.” ― Daniel Webster
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“The diligent farmer plants trees,
of which he himself will never see the fruit.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“He was born to be a farmer. It was something
that he was good at, something he knew well. He was a giver of life, an
alchemist that worked in dirt, seed, and manure.”
― Tracy Winegar
106
“Farming is “possibly the most
spiritually, emotionally, and physically engrossing pursuit one can make.” —
Andrew Kilduff
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“Farming is a calling. A calling to
risk everything, to provide everything, for everyone.” — Kelly Griggs
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