3,214 Quotes About Food

I love food, I love everything about food – the growing, the purchasing, the cooking, the eating, the nourishment, the connection, the celebration. To me, food is so central to everything important in life – how we eat and how we feed others is such a strong reflection on who we are, our values, and how we live. And we get to express and enjoy this three times every single day!

Gluttony is the act of digging a grave with your own teeth.

On the whole, “offenders” are foods we tend to eat compulsively, with less actual pleasure than you might think. Often they are poor versions of something better.

Foodways like any other aspect of culture, are never static. Even without the influence of other cultures, we would be eating and cooking differently from the generations that came before us.

Home cooking is always concerned with quality, because people you care about will eat the meal.

Both commensality, the act of eating together, and the sharing of food are powerful means by which human beings create, express, and solidify feelings of mutual trust, intimacy, and kinship.

Most people stop eating not when their stomachs are full but when their plates are empty.

A truly compassionate man gives a poor woman a portion of his meal before he eats, not after he has eaten.

we eat for our stomachs, but we hunger with our hearts.