We all consume food to provide nourishment to our bodies and to engage our taste buds. Food occupies a primary role in all cultures. We need it for survival, but when your family or friends gather to eat food, it becomes a place to make memories and share one’s feelings.
If you also discuss food to a great extent apart from just eating it, you have come to the right place. Various stars and chefs all over the world have written some excellent quotes, and we are here to present them in front of you. You are free to use them as you wish: print them and put them up on a wall, cherish them forever by memorizing them or paste them in your kitchen.
Moreover, reading these quotes can make your day better by adding an element of humor. Quotes are nothing but putting words in the correct order to make them stand out and deliver a message. Starting your day with some witty and funny quotes while sipping your coffee and eating pancakes can be considered a good start.
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Food Quotes and Captions
- There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
- It’s easy for Americans to forget that the food they eat doesn’t magically appear on a supermarket shelf.
Christopher Dodd
- Food is symbolic of love when words are inadequate.
Alan D. Wolfet
- I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.
A.Whitney Brown
- When a man’s stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.
Euripides
- I could talk food all day. I love good food.
Tom Brady
- My idea of fast food is a mallard.
Ted Nugent
- Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians – except for the occasional mountain lion steak.
Ted Nugent
- Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt
- Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.
Michael Pollan
- Food simply isn’t important to me.
Alice Paul
- If your mother cooks Italian food, why should you go to a restaurant?
Martin Scorsese
- Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.
Hippocrates
- Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I’m taking with me when I go.
Erma Bombeck
- Know how to garnish food so that it is more appealing to the eye and even more flavorful than before.
Marilyn vos Savant
- If food were free, why work?
Douglas Horton
- I love food and feel that it is something that should be enjoyed. I eat whatever I want. I just don’t overeat.
Tyra Banks
- A good restaurant is like a vacation; it transports you, and it becomes a lot more than just about the food.
Philip Rosenthal
- Chinese food tries to engage the mind, not just the palate. To provoke the intellect.
Nicole Mones
- You don’t need a silver fork to eat good food.
Paul Prudhomme
- The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body.
Pat Buchanan
- Most of us have fond memories of food from our childhood. Whether it was our mom’s homemade lasagna or a memorable chocolate birthday cake, food has a way of transporting us back to the past.
Homaro Cantu
- If you have good food, people will come to your restaurant.
Mickey Gilley
- Chinese food tries to engage the mind, not just the palate. To provoke the intellect.
Nicole Mones
- Ice-cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.
Voltaire
- When chickens get to live like chickens, they’ll taste like chickens, too.
Michael Pollan
- Going to a restaurant is one of my keenest pleasures. Meeting someplace with old and new friends, ordering wine, eating food, surrounded by strangers, I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.
Adam Gopnik
- Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply.
Norman Borlaug
- I am not a glutton – I am an explorer of food.
Erma Bombeck
- I’m not an amazing cook. But I can follow a recipe!
Rachel McAdams
- Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
Quintilian
- I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead.
Woody Allen
- I love you like a fat kid loves cake!
Scott Adams
- Never order food in excess of your body weight.
Erma Bombeck
- If God gives you a Quiznos, can I have a bite? No way. You have to pray for your own food.
Michael Grant
- Cakes are like books: There are new ones you want to read and old favorites you want to reread.
Ellen Rose
- If you’re a happy person around food, you can be a professional chef. It’s fueled by passion.
Ranveer Brar
- Eating good food energizes me.
Suzuka Nakamoto
- I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.
Oscar Wilde
- Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.
George Bernard Shaw
- The best comfort food will always be greens, cornbread, and fried chicken.
Maya Angelou
- I breathe in slowly. Food is life. I exhale, take another breath. Food is life. And that’s the problem. When you’re alive, people can hurt you. It’s easier to crawl into a bone cage or a snowdrift of confusion. It’s easier to lock everybody out.But it’s a lie.
Laurie Halse Anderson
- An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.
A. J. Liebling
- A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what’s cheese? Corpse of milk.
James Joyce
- I’m Irish, so I’m used to odd stews. I can take it. Just throw a lot of carrots and onions in there and I’ll call it dinner.
Liam Neeson
- Popcorn for breakfast! Why not? It’s a grain. It’s like, like, grits, but with high self-esteem.
James Patterson
- In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.
Julia Child
- Attitudes toward food have completely changed.
Giada De Laurentiis
- Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It’s made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!
Roald Dahl
- Food is an important part of a balanced diet.
Fran Lebowitz
- If you have good food, people will come to your restaurant.
Mickey Gilley
- If you’re going to America, bring your own food.
Fran Lebowitz
- Eating is an agricultural act.
Wendell Berry
- Is Elizabeth Taylor fat? Her favorite food is seconds.
Joan Rivers
- The kitchen is a sacred space.
Marc Forgione
- I eat a variety of foods like vegetables, fruit and beef for protein and iron.
Sasha Cohen
- Anything is good if it’s made of chocolate.
Jo Brand
- Sometimes the only answer to death is lunch.
Jim Harrison
- Cooking is all about people. Food is maybe the only universal thing that really has the power to bring everyone together. No matter what culture, everywhere around the world, people get together to eat.
Guy Fieri
- The best way to celebrate the holidays is with some delicious food.
Rachel Hollis
- If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.
Leigh Hunt
- A waffle is like a pancake with a syrup trap.
Mitch Hedberg
- Cakes are healthy too, you just eat a small slice.
Mary Berry
- Knowledge is the food of the soul.
Plato
- Fast food is popular because it’s convenient, it’s cheap, and it tastes good. But the real cost of eating fast food never appears on the menu.
Eric Schlosser
- Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.
M. F. K. Fisher
- I still eat a burger at a counter with ketchup dripping down my face.
Scarlett Johansson
- If your mother cooks Italian food, why should you go to a restaurant?
Martin Scorsese
- Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.
Dorothy Day
- It’s difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn’t available.
Ronald Reagan
- I said to my friends that if I was going to starve, I might as well starve where the food is good.
Virgil Thomson
- Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg before it is broken.
M.F.K. Fisher
- Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
G. K. Chesterton
- You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I’m not hungry enough to eat six.
- Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.
Robert Redford
- Food should be fun.
Thomas Keller
- Cooking is at once child’s play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.
Craig Claiborne
- When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
Desiderius Erasmus
- Peruvian food is so simple yet amazingly flavored with their traditional spices.
L’Wren Scott
- Beware the hobby that eats.
Benjamin Franklin
- Food is culture. Food is an identity, a footprint of who you are.
Lidia Bastianich
- Get people back into the kitchen and combat the trend toward processed food and fast food.
Andrew Weil
- The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for the steak to cook.
Julia Child
- You can’t make a souffle rise twice.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
- Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans … are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit.
Anthony Bourdain
- There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
George Bernard Shaw
- If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
J.R.R. Tolkien
- Food simply isn’t important to me.
Alice Paul
- My love is pizza shaped. Won’t you have a slice? It’s circular, so there’s enough to go around.
Dora J. Arod
- 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.
Robert Farrar Capon
- Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
Samuel Butler
- You are what what you eat eats.
Michael Pollan
- A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
Benjamin Franklin
- Wine is bottled poetry.
Robert Louis Stevenson
- If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
Mother Teresa
- Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.
Sai Baba
- Maybe a person’s time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food.
Frank A. Clark
- Sandwiches are wonderful. You don’t need a spoon or a plate!
Paul Lynde
- A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
Elsa Schiaparelli
- Eating good food is, to me, one of life’s greatest joys, and I will never punish myself for it.
Miriam Shor
- When you eat food with your family and friends, it always tastes better!
- I love you to the fridge and back.
- Everything tastes good when you’re hungry.
- Love and sausage are alike. I can never get enough of both.
- Donut worry, be happy.
- I’m feeling heroic today. I think I might go rescue some alcohol trapped in some kind of bottle later.
- Count memories, not calories.
- If my plate is full, I’m happy.
- I’ve always been fond of hashtags. They remind me of waffles!
- If it’s made of chocolate, then I’m going to eat it!
- If my plate is full, I’m happy.
- In order to achieve a balanced diet, one must hold a cookie in each hand.
- Love and sausage are alike. I can never get enough of both.
- Magic happens in the kitchen during lunchtime and dinner time.
TOP 5 BEST FOOD CAPTIONS FOR INSTAGRAM 2022
- We found love in a hopeless plate.
- Waiting on time travel so I can come back and eat this again.
- The closest I’ve been to a diet this year is to eliminate food searches from my browser history.
- Seconds, thirds… who’s counting?
- Party like a guac star.
Conclusion
Reading these quotes about food must have made you feel hungry by now. No one hates food, and when you are not eating it, you can read about it. We hope you felt entertained reading these quotes. They should be a reminder that life is short and you should enjoy it by eating some great food. These short and sweet thoughts are perfect to be shared with one’s family and friends.
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