About food:
“Food” for thought – just too corny. However, here are some inspirational quotes about food:
A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger’s end.
Walter Savage Landor
Kissing don’t last: cookery do.
George Meredith
Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.
Harriet Van Horne
Savory seasonings stimulate the appetite.
Latin Proverb
Fish, to taste right, must swim three times — in water, in butter and in wine.
Polish Proverb
A good meal makes a man feel more charitable toward the world than any sermon.
Arthur Pendenys
Fervet olla, vivit amicitia: While the pot boils, friendship endures. (Meaning the man who gives good dinners has plenty of friends).
Latin Proverb
Cookery has become a noble art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.
Robert Burton
The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of mankind than the discovery of a star.
Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
I feel a recipe is only a theme, which an intelligent cook can play each time with a variation.
Madam Benoit
Even were a cook to cook a fly,
he would keep the breast for himself.
Polish Proverb
These and others can be found here.
