The guardian and arbiter of superlative eating, with every meal an unforgettable experience in pleasure, starting with the soup, which he said, 'must be the agent provocateur of a good dinner.' — Marie-Antoine Careme
A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart, who looks at her watch. — James Beard
A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch. — James Beard
Confit is the ultimate comfort food, and trendy or not, it is dazzling stuff. — Sally Schneider
Food has become entertainment and a status symbol. — Rangan Chatterjee
The gentle art of gastronomy is a friendly one. It hurdles the language
barrier, makes friends among civilized people, and warms the heart. — Samuel Chamberlain
People will travel anywhere for good food - it's crazy. — Rene Redzepi
Through my work and travels I have been lucky enough to have been exposed to various eclectic cuisine running the gamut from small local cafes to iconic five-star restaurants. — Mark Hyman, M.D.
A gourmet meal without a glass of wine just seems tragic to me somehow. — Kathy Mattea
Food is a product of supply and demand, so try to figure out where the supplies are fresh, the suppliers are creative, and the demanders are informed. — Tyler Cowen
A lobster bisque ought to be the crowning glory of the potager. And this one was excellent. Silky as a gigolo's compliment and fishy as a chancellor's promise. — A. A. Gill
Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness. — Auguste Escoffier
I am not a glutton - I am an explorer of food — Erma Bombeck
Everyone eats and drinks; yet only few appreciate the taste of food. — Confucius
Know why certain foods, such as truffles, are expensive. It's not because they taste best. — Marilyn vos Savant
The quality of food matters as much as the quantity. — Steven Gundry
I'm such a foodie. If I see a pork chop, I'm eating it. — Josh Henderson
The most sincere form of love is love for food — George Bernard Shaw
When you pursue great flavor, you also pursue great ecology. — Dan Barber
A great chef is an artist that I truly respect. — Robert Stack
The quality of our food is just as important as the quantity. — Steven Gundry
Gourmet Food Image Quotes
Don't look for a partner who is eye candy. Look for a partner who is soul food.
Gourmet Quotes
Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper. — Adelle Davis
Sometimes when I'm faced with an atheist, I am tempted to invite him to the greatest gourmet dinner that one could ever serve, and when we have finished eating that magnificent dinner, to ask him if he believes there's a cook. — Ronald Reagan
I say everything's about company. A gourmet meal with an asshole is a horrible meal. A hot dog with an interesting person is an amazing meal. — Chris Rock
The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for steak to coo.
Don't wreck a sublime chocolate experience by feeling guilty. — Lora Brody
I don't use the word gourmet. The word doesn't mean anything anymore. 'Gourmet' makes it sound like someone is putting sherry wine in the corn-flake casserole. — Julia Child
Your diet is a bank account, good food choice are good investments.
Once again, when you upgrade sensations from an addiction to a preference, you can enjoy things such as gourmet food and music, without having your happiness depend on them. — Ken Keyes Jr.
A gourmet knows that the best part is not always the expensive part, and he will find that part, and then he will share it. A gourmet should want to share. — Mark Kurlansky
We often feed the critic gourmet meals and starve the rest. — Angeles Arrien
Ordinary folk prefer familiar tastes - they'd sooner eat the same things all the time - but a gourmet would sample a fried park bench just to know how it tastes. — Walter Moers
Gastronomic Quotes
A gastronomer who is not an environmentalis t is just stupid. Whereas an environmentalis t who is not a gastronomer is sad. It's possible to change the world even while preserving the concept of the right of pleasure. — Carlo Petrini
Cassoulet, that best of bean feasts, is everyday fare for a peasant but ambrosia for a gastronome, though its ideal consumer is a 300-pound blocking back who has been splitting firewood nonstop for the last twelve hours on a subzero day in Manitoba. — Julia Child
Whosoever says truffle, utters a grand word, which awakens erotic and gastronomic ideas. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
Any gastronome who is not an environmentalist is stupid, and any environmentalist who is not a gastronome is sad. — Carlo Petrini
...the true spirit of gastronomic joylessness. Porridge fills the Englishman up, and prunes clear him out. — E. M. Forster
The egg creams of Avenue A in New York and the root beer float....are among the high points of American gastronomic inventiveness. — Mark Kurlansky
There's no better feeling in the world than a warm pizza box on your lap.
A gastronomical supermeal didn't necessarily have to involve the things I had brought from other top kitchens. — Rene Redzepi
. . . gastronomical perfection can be reached in these combinations: one person dining alone, usually upon a couch or a hill side; two people, of no matter what sex or age, dining in a good restaurant; six people . . . dining in a good home. — M. F. K. Fisher
The kitchen, reasonably enough, was the scene of my first gastronomic adventure. I was on all fours. I crawled into the vegetable bin, settled on a giant onion and ate it, skin and all. It must have marked me for life, for I have never ceased to love the hearty flavor of raw onions. — James Beard
A complete lack of caution is perhaps one of the true signs of a real gourmet: he has no need for it, being filled as he is with a God-given and intelligently self-cultivated sense of gastronomical freedom. — M. F. K. Fisher
Delicious Food Quotes
Noodles are not only amusing but delicious. — Julia Child
If the divine creator has taken pains to give us delicious and exquisite things to eat, the least we can do is prepare them well and serve them with ceremony. — Fernand Point
The people who give you their food give you their heart. — Cesar Chavez
One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast. — Robert A. Heinlein
People who love to eat are always the best people. — Julia Child
Talking of Pleasure, this moment I was writing with one hand, and with the other holding to my Mouth a Nectarine - how good how fine. It went down all pulpy, slushy, oozy, all its delicious embonpoint melted down my throat like a large, beatified Strawberry. — John Keats
I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that’s living.
Haggis is delicious. It is wonderful. It's spicy, it's tasty, and you get vegetarian haggis as well. — Nicola Sturgeon
When the waitress asked if I wanted my pizza cut into four or eight slices, I said, 'Four. I don't think I can eat eight.' — Yogi Berra
A burrito is a delicious food item that breaks down all social barriers and leads to temporary spiritual enlightenment. — Lisi Harrison
We all eat & it would be a sad waste of opportunity to eat badly. — Anna Thomas
Cuisine Quotes
Original, in French: La bonne cuisine est la base du véritable bonheur.
English: Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness. — Auguste Escoffier
Life is too short for cuisine minceur and for diets. Dietetic meals are like an opera without the orchestra. — Paul Bocuse
The so-called nouvelle cuisine usually means not enough on your plate and too much on your bill. — Paul Bocuse
The day each family keeps aside food to feed one hungry person or animal or bird every day, nobody will go hungry in this world. There is enough food to feed every hungry stomach. Mankind just doesn't have the heart for it.
As far as cuisine is concerned one must read everything, see everything, hear everything, try everything, observe everything, in order to retain in the end, just a little bit. — Fernand Point
New Orleans cuisine is Creole rather than Cajun. — Poppy Z. Brite
Slow Food unites the pleasure of food with responsibility, sustainability and harmony with nature. — Carlo Petrini
A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you have that basis, that's when cuisine is truly exciting. — Charlie Trotter
If I had to narrow my choice of meats down to one for the rest of my life, I am quite certain that meat would be pork. — James Beard
Soup is cuisine's kindest course. It breathes reassurance; it steams consolation; after a weary day it promotes sociability, as the five o'clock cup of tea or the cocktail hour. — Louis Pullig De Gouy
Food And Wine Quotes
The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese — Steven Wright
it's a smile, it's a kiss, it's a sip of wine ... it's summertime! — Kenny Chesney
A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world. — Louis Pasteur
We once grew good without chemicals. We never grew food without bees.
If penicillin can cure those that are ill, Spanish sherry can bring the dead back to life. — Alexander Fleming
Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards; there it enters the roots of the vines, to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy. — Benjamin Franklin
Whoever would have guessed that in the land of cheap sausages and mashed potatoes there could be such a change which would actually bring the French from Paris every weekend to invade Britain en masse to eat great food and drink great wine. — Robin Leach
Growing you own food is like printing your own money!
Burgundy makes you think of silly things; Bordeaux makes you talk about them, and Champagne makes you do them. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Drinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life's most civilized pleasures. — Michael Broadbent
It is well known among physicians that the best of the nourishing foods is the one that the Moslem religion forbids, i.e., Wine. It contains much good and light nourishment. It is rapidly digested and helps to digest other foods. — Maimonides
The older I get, the better I used to be. — Lee Trevino
Culinary Quotes
The strawberry grows underneath the nettle And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality. — William Shakespeare
Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live. — Socrates
A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe. — Thomas Keller
We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink. — Epicurus
So you can settle the fuck down. My mother used to say, "Primero comemos, entonces lo demás." That means, "first we eat, then we do everything else." — Brian Yorkey
My goal is to make Italian food clean and accessible and beautiful and tasty, with simple ingredients that people can find at a local grocery store, because people don't want to go to a gourmet shop in search of items that will sit in their pantry for years after they use just a teaspoon or pinch of them. — Giada De Laurentiis
If you want breakfast in bed, sleep in the kitchen.
After eating, an epicure gives a thin smile of satisfaction; a gastronome, burping into his napkin, praises the food in a magazine; a gourmet, repressing his burp, criticizes the food in the same magazine; a gourmand belches happily and tells everybody where he ate; a glutton empraces the white porcelain alter, or more plainly, he barfs. — William Safire
But some of us are beginning to pull well away, in our irritation, from...the exquisite tasters, the vintage snobs, the three-star Michelin gourmets. There is, we feel, a decent area somewhere between boiled carrots and Beluga caviare, sour plonk and Chateau Lafitte, where we can take care of our gullets and bellies without worshipping them. — J. B. Priestley
A complete lack of caution is perhaps one of the true signs of a real gourmet. — M. F. K. Fisher
Judging foods without regard to price is a rich mans game, and yet poor people can be gourmets able to discern a good potato from a bad one. — Mark Kurlansky
It was dramatic to watch my grandmother decapitate a turkey with an ax the day before Thanksgiving. Nowadays the expense of hiring grandmothers for the ax work would probably qualify all turkeys so honored with gourmet status. — Russell Baker
For a gourmet wine is not a drink but a condiment, provided that your host has chosen correctly. — Edouard de Pomiane
You might be a redneck if you consider pork and beans to be a gourmet food. — Jeff Foxworthy
The difference between a gourmet and a gourmand we take to be this: a gourmet is he who selects, for his nice and learned delectation, the most choice delicacies, prepared in the most scientific manner; whereas the gourmand bears a closer analogy to that class of great eaters ill-naturedly (we dare say) denominated, or classed with, aldermen. — Abraham Hayward
If you're afraid of butter, use cream. — Julia Child
Food is a passion because I basically grew up in a kitchen. My mother was a gourmet chef and I'm the youngest of five kids. We would always congregate in the kitchen. — Laura Prepon
Gluttony is a great fault; but we do not necessarily dislike a glutton. We only dislike the glutton when he becomes a gourmet-that is, we only dislike him when he not only wants the best for himself, but knows what is best for other people. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
No man under forty can be dignified with the title of gourmet. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
News is like food: it is the cooking and serving that makes it acceptable, not the material itself. — Rose Macaulay
Some people who are obsessed with food become gourmet chefs. Others become eating disorders. — Marya Hornbacher
America is a land of healthy appetites. It is not in the American character to live in order to eat. Rather, the reverse is true. Many try, but just as Americans don't make good gigolos, nether do they make good gourmets. — Ludwig Bemelmans
Whenever I was called a gourmet, I suspected I was being accused of something at least slightly unpleasant. But that was before I heard the term "foodie." I am still not sure that a gourmet is a good thing to be, but it must be better than a foodie. — Mark Kurlansky
A true gourmet - a judge - has the wisdom to know when to stop eating. — Mark Kurlansky
You can have a table full of gourmet food, but the minute you put a box of Entenmann's doughnuts out, that's all people are gonna talk about. — Dan Deacon
As women, we understand our bodies, and there's a blossoming that occurs. We're hungry for gourmet meals instead of the fast food. We bring to life a more expansive understanding of life, ourselves, and others. We are more generous and assertive. — Sharon Stone
Gourmet: Usually little more than a glutton festooned with credit cards. — Sydney J. Harris
I can't believe it! A real gourmet kitchen, and I get to watch! — Loic Remy
I am a bit of a gourmet chef. I love cooking mostly Thai food. And a lot of times on movies, you have these trailers that have these little ovens and kitchenettes. A lot of actors never use them, but I would cook lunch just about every day. — Will Ferrell
Lyon is full of temperamental gourmets, eternally engaged in a never-ending search for that imaginary, perfect, unknown little back-street bistro, where one can dine in the style of Louis XIV for the price of a pack of peanuts. — Roy Andries De Groot
Sweetly and subtly perfumed...so soft it is best eaten with a spoon, a tenderness more appealing to gourmets than to those who have to pick, ship, handle and store it in constant fear of ruinous spoilage. — Waverley Root
The pleasure of eating should be an extensive pleasure, not that of the mere gourmet. People who know the garden in which their vegetables have grown and know that the garden is healthy will remember the beauty of the growing plants, perhaps in the dewy first light of morning when gardens are at their best. Such a memory involves itself with the food and is one of the pleasures of eating. (pg. 326, The Pleasures of Eating) — Wendell Berry
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