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A fruit is a vegetable with looks and money. Plus, if you let fruit rot, it turns into wine, something Brussels sprouts never do.
P.J. O’Rourke

Forget love, I’d rather fall in chocolate.
Anonymous

Those who forget the pasta are condemned to reheat it.
Anonymous

Food is the most primitive form of comfort.
Sheila Graham

Man is born to eat.
Craig Claiborne

Kitchen Physic is the best Physic.
Jonathan Swift

The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for the steak to cook.
Julia Child

Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.
Doug Larson

In general, mankind, since the improvement in cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
Benjamin Franklin

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
Mahatma Gandhi

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will’s freedom after it.
Aldous Huxley

Food is to eat, not to frame and hang on the wall.
William Denton

The Chinese do not draw any distinction between food and medicine.
Lin Yutang

Hunger is the best sauce in the world.
Cervantes

The right diet directs sexual energy into the parts that matter.
Barbara Cartland

The spirit cannot endure the body when overfed, but, if underfed, the body cannot endure the spirit.
St Frances de Sales

Worries go down better with soup.
Jewish Proverb

When you get to fifty-two food becomes more important than sex.
Tom Lehrer

You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I’m not hungry enough to eat six.
Yogi Berra

It’s important to begin a search on a full stomach.
Henry Bromel

The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you’re hungry again.
George Miller

Food is not about impressing people. It’s about making them feel comfortable.
Ina Garten

Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don’t eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on.
George Bernard Shaw

Chili represents your three stages of matter: solid, liquid, and eventually gas.
Roseanne

The belly rules the mind.
Spanish Proverb

Custard: A detestable substance produced by a malevolent conspiracy of the hen, the cow, and the cook.
Ambrose Bierce

I don’t even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
Katherine Cebrian

The way you cut your meat reflects the way you live.
Confucius

He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.
Henry David Thoreau

Make food simple and let things taste of what they are.
Curnonsky

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