The greatest food quotes ever

[RiceCooker]

Great restaurants are, of course, nothing but mouth-brothels. There is no point in going to them if one intends to keep one's belt buckled. ~Frederic Raphael

[Busboy]

Around my house the main quote is WWTD? What Would Thomas [Keller] Do?

And also (apropos of the Voltaire quote earlier):

*Either*

"How can you govern a nation that has 246 kinds of cheese?"

*Or*

"Nobody can simply bring together a country that has 265 kinds of cheese."

-- Charles de Gaulle

My suspicion, knowing politicians as I do, is that once he'd found a decent line, he probably said both.

[RWells]

Mario's famous quote, "The Italians were eating with forks when the French were still eating each other."

Bourdain's quote that I use for my tag, "Even Samantha Brown would have a hard time summoning a "wow" for this"

I love the WWTD. A classic for cooking slackers.

Bob

[roosterchef21]

I can relate to this. A suitable quote for those times when people look at you funny when you have blown a thousand bucks on a meal.

We were saving, saving, saving then going to France and blowing the money eating. She was a nurse and had never experienced fine dining but she loved it, too. Our mates thought it absurd.

Heston Blumenthal

[Shalmanese]

"[The Black Truffle] is treasured not so much for its taste or appearance but for its aroma, which has been likened to bedsheets after a night of abandon, slatterns who disdain to bathe, all that is dark and alluring about the human body and soul." - Alan Richman

[Peter Green]

I was reading David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas, and a line near the end made me smile in a way that I know I'll be quoting Mitchell for some time:

Dhondt to Frobisher - "My worry is that the next war will be so big, nowhere with a decent restaurant will be left untouched."

[Panaderia Canadiense]

My fave is another of Douglas Adams' -

"All time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. Drink up, the world's about to end." - Ford Prefect to Arthur Dent, HHG2G

After that, I'm quite fond of an unattributed quote: "Any self-respecting cat will bury a ripe guava."

Edited August 20, 2011 by Panaderia Canadiense (log)

[dcarch]

At the end, you can't take it with you,

except what you put in your stomach.

dcarch

[Porthos]

This particular theme has already been touched on - but this refers to the one who first inspired me.

I recently saw this apron: Large Letters "WWJD" small letters "What would Julia do"

[judiu]

This particular theme has already been touched on - but this refers to the one who first inspired me.

I recently saw this apron: Large Letters "WWJD" small letters "What would Julia do"

I L0VE it!

[janeer]

I revere Charles Dickens. Of his extensive dialogue about food in his books, my favorites are from A Christmas Carol:

"Hallo! A great deal of steam!The pudding was out of the copper. A smell like a washing-day! That was the cloth. A smell like an eating-house, and a pastry cook's next to each other, with a laundress's next door to that! That was the pudding."

And declaring it "a wonderful pudding--not at all a small pudding for such a large family" to Mrs. Cratchet, who said, "I do confess I had my doubts about the quantity of flour."

And then there was my inimatable (a nickname for Dickens himself) father, who once said at the Empress Room, a very fancy Chinese restaurant on the top of the Hyatt, "Gimme one of them Chinese margaritas" to the very stuffy Chinese waiter.

[Beebs]

"Life is short. Eat dessert first."

Don't know who to attribute this quote to, but it's on my coaster at my desk!

[sheepish]

I'm fond of the musings of Brillat-Savarin. In particular,

"Dessert without cheese is like a beautiful woman with one eye"

[Kouign Aman]

"If life hands you melons, you are probably dyslexic."

[_john]

Ingredients have no borders.

Hiroyuki Sakai

[Panaderia Canadiense]

There's a traditional Ambato saying that I quite like, which translates as:

"Chocolate without cheese is love without kisses" (Chocolate sin queso es amor sin besos)

[andiesenji]

"Tea can have a piece of fruit hanging on the side of the cup. If I have fruit hanging from the side of glass, there should be rum in it." Amy Vansant

"Champagne should be cold, dry and, hopefully, free."

- Christian Pol Roger

Edited August 23, 2011 by andiesenji (log)

[haresfur]

A friend of my parents said:

"I don't make love to 14 year old girls and I don't drink beaujolais nouveau."

- Bruce McDonald

[threestars]

I love this one:

"Avoid fruits and nuts. You are what you eat." - Jim Davis

[David Ross]

"I'm not a heavy eater. I'm just heavy, and I eat."

Alfred Hitchcock

[andiesenji]

Quote from a Maxine comic:

"I get my glow from a bottle. It says Zinfandel!"

[Melissa]

My favorite..

“If your guests are afraid of butter, just use cream.”

― Julia Child

Edited March 20, 2012 by Melissa (log)

[SylviaLovegren]

My fave is another of Douglas Adams' -

After that, I'm quite fond of an unattributed quote: "Any self-respecting cat will bury a ripe guava."

Wow, is that true! My husband just bought a small case of guavas and the first thing the strikes one when walking into our house is "clean that catbox, now!" I had no idea.

P.S. We have no pets.

Edited March 21, 2012 by SylviaLovegren (log)

[Panaderia Canadiense]

Alongside ripe and freshly split Durian, I think Guava are perhaps in the running for "world's tastiest and at the same time foulest smelling fruit."

[David Ross]

"Give her sunshine, and plenty of butter and cream."

Wuthering Heights, 1939