For, say they, when cruising in an empty ship, if you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
—Herman Melville, 1851Quotes
Cooking is the most massive rush. It’s like having the most amazing hard-on, with Viagra sprinkled on top of it, and it’s still there twelve hours later.
—Gordon Ramsey, 2003One of the important requirements for learning how to cook is that you also learn how to eat.
—Julia Child, 2001To eat is to appropriate by destruction.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1943The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
—Virginia Woolf, 1929At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
—W. Somerset Maugham, 1896When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
—St. Jerome, 395The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.
—Luis Buñuel, 1983Is it only the mouth and belly which are injured by hunger and thirst? Men’s minds are also injured by them.
—Mencius, 300 BCFeasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.
—Aldous Huxley, 1929Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea? How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.
—Sydney Smith, 1855Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother.
—George Herbert, 1651