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“Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.”

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Author:William Makepeace Thackeray

“An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.”

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”

Source: The Hobbit

“The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.”

“I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.”

Stills Feet Food Hundred Cooking Restaurants Culinary Metamorphosis Feet Off The Ground

Book:American fried; adventures of a happy eater

Source: American fried; adventures of a happy eater

“Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.”

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Book:Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...

Source: Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...

“Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.”

Source: Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend

“I like being at home and cooking.”

Author:Shania Twain

“Playwrights are like men who have been dining for a month in an Indian restaurant. After eating curry night after night, they deny the existence of asparagus.”

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Author:Peter Ustinov

“The rat stops gnawing in the wood, the dungeon walls withdraw, the weight is lifted your pulse steadies and the sun has found your heart, the day was not bad, the season has not been bad, there is sense and even promise in going on.”

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Author:Bernard DeVoto

“Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.”

“I love eating shabu-shabu in Japan - a kind of beef hotpot. But if you're talking about authentic, traditional food, then Italian cooking is one of the best in the world.”

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Author:Andrea Bocelli

“Ice-cream is exquisite - what a pity it isn't illegal.”

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Author:Voltaire

“Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.”

“I'm not sure I'd write a good cookbook, but I might make a good cooking show.”

Writing Shows Might Cooking Not Sure Cookbook Cooking Shows

Author:Christopher Walken

“The thing about cooking is it's so interesting to watch. I don't know why, but if you go to somebody's house and they're making something, they usually say interesting things while they're cooking.”

Ifs Knows House Interesting Watches Cooking Interesting Things

Author:Christopher Walken

“Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.”

World Said Together Happiness Joy Time Family Food Harmony Cooking Aspiration Culinary Being Happy Onions

Book:My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition

Source: My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition

“I really love research. It's one of the things I love most about my job. I feel like it's me in the lab cooking up the character.”

Feels Character Jobs Research Cooking Labs Things I Love

Author:Kerry Washington

“I'm going to be a happy housewife. I'm going to be washing boxers and cooking and doing all those sorts of housewife duties. I just want to be happy and proud of every single day.”

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Author:Johnny Weir

“My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.”

“Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.”

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Author:Orson Welles

“Gluttony is not a secret vice.”

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Author:Orson Welles

“I came home every Friday afternoon, riding the six miles on the back of a big mule. I spent Saturday and Sunday washing and ironing and cooking for the children and went back to my country school on Sunday afternoon.”

Source: Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells

“I eat only vegetables and fruit, and to me it's the most aspirational diet because it's so easy. It's quite simple, the cooking I do.”

Easy Simple Cooking Fruit Diets Vegetables

Author:Vivienne Westwood

“I go out to the kitchen to feed the dog, but that's about as much cooking as I do.”

Dog Cooking Kitchen

Author:Betty White

“An army marches on its stomach.”

War Food Army Cooking Culinary March Stomach

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.”

“I get quite lazy about cooking because when I come back from work it is the last thing I want to do, really is spend loads of time cooking.”

Want Lasts Work Cooking Lazy Working It Load

Author:Prince William

“I do endless chopping and preparing things. I really find that relaxing. I do a lot of thinking as I am chopping and cooking.”

Thinking Cooking Endless Preparing Chopping

Author:Kate Winslet

“Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is wiser not to stir them.”

Memories Food Humorous Cooking Restaurants Culinary Soup

Author:P. G. Wodehouse

“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”

“I went to a restaurant that serves 'breakfast at any time'. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.”

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Author:Steven Wright

“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.”

Ifs Matter Joy Cooking Chef Cooking For Others

Author:will.i.am

“So when I do Chinese cooking, I mix everything together, then the kids have to eat their vegetables. They won't have the patience to pick them out.”

Kids Together Picks Patience Cooking Chinese Vegetables

Author:Martin Yan

“I remember when I was in college, I used to watch Julia Child's cooking show during dinner and joke with my roommates about becoming a TV chef.”

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Author:Martin Yan

“Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.”

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Book:The Importance of Living

Source: The Importance of Living

“Cooking can be rewarding when it is a choice and no longer the onerous duty of the housewife, and when a dishwasher can lighten the load at the other end of the process.”

Ends Choices Process Duty Cooking Load Housewife Dishwashers

Author:Julian Baggini

“You know, from age 17 on, my paycheck was coming from cooking and working in kitchens.”

Knows Age Cooking Kitchen Paychecks

Author:Anthony Bourdain

“The cooking profession, while it's a noble craft and a noble calling, 'cause you're doing something useful - you're feeding people, you're nurturing them, you're providing sustenance - it was never pure.”

People Causes Calling Pure Cooking Noble Profession Crafts Providing Feeding Nurturing Sustenance

Author:Anthony Bourdain

“Look at something like cooking. Now, you would hear a lot about smart kitchens and augmented kitchens. And what do those smart kitchens actually do? They police what's happening inside the kitchen. They have cameras that distinguish ingredients one from each other and that tell you that shouldn't mix this ingredient with another ingredient.”

Looks Smart Happenings Police Cameras Cooking Kitchen Ingredients

Author:Evgeny Morozov

“My sisters like cooking at my place. It has a bit more room, and the food tastes a little bit better. A big pot of spaghetti and sauce, some warm French bread - works all the time. I think I've been eating pasta for 26 years.”

Thinking Years Littles Bigs Bits Sports Rooms Taste Eating Little Bit Cooking Warm Bread Pot My Sister Sauce Pasta Spaghetti Spaghetti Sauce French Bread

Author:Tom Brady

“Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon”

Love Approach Cooking Karma Buddhist Abandon Reckless Cooking Love Cooking And Love Reckless Abandon

Book:Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life

Source: Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life

“All sorrows are less with bread.”

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Author:Miguel de Cervantes

“There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.”

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Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I am not a glutton - I am an explorer of food”

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Author:Erma Bombeck

“The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.”

“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.”

“Nothing rekindles my spirits, gives comfort to my heart and mind, more than a visit to Mississippi... and to be regaled as I often have been, with a platter of fried chicken, field peas, collard greens, fresh corn on the cob, sliced tomatoes with French dressing... and to top it all off with a wedge of freshly baked pecan pie.”

“It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others. So it happens that when I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and the hunger for it… and then the warmth and richness and fine reality of hunger satisfied… and it is all one.”

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Author:M. F. K. Fisher

“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.”

Want Worry Food Taste Cooking Enthusiasm Cooks Loud Culinary Modesty

Author:Robert Farrar Capon