First we eat, then we do everything else.
People who love to eat are always the best people.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

Food is our common ground, a universal experience.
Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.
The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.
Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first.

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
The only thing I like better than talking about food is eating.
Happiness is a bowl of cherries and a book of poetry under a shade tree.
You don't need a silver fork to eat good food.
Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.
Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.
To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.
A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe.

One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.
Cooking is like love; it should be entered into with abandon or not at all.

Food is symbolic of love when words are inadequate.
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
Laughter is brightest in the place where the food is.