The 75 best quotes about Gastronomy and Food

We review great famous quotes about the art of cooking and eating.

Food has always been a crucial aspect for the human species.. The way we obtain food from nature conditions how we are, how we live and how we relate to each other.

Of course, eating has always been a necessary condition for staying alive. However, the act of eating has its share of enjoyment. The world of cooking and the art of eating well has been developing a cultural approach to food and gastronomy specific to each place.

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Gastronomy and food phrases

In today's article we are going to know the best phrases about gastronomy and food.. That is, we are going to collect great famous quotes about the art of cooking.

1. Signature cuisine is putting your personality into what you do and that feeling makes it something different. (Ferran Adriá)

A phrase from one of the most acclaimed chefs of the 21st century. A true ace of haute cuisine.

2. In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is strength, in water there is bacteria. (Benjamin Franklin)

This is how one of the first presidents of the United States spoke about three sacred beverages.

There is nothing sexier than a poached pear with perfect sorbet. (Lisa Hershey)

Gastronomy can be exciting.

4. The secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight inside. (Mark Twain)

The hedonism of good eating.

5. When my mother gave us bread, she gave us love. (Joël Robuchon)

So much affection hidden in the act of feeding.

6. The discovery of a new dish is of more benefit to mankind than the discovery of a star. (Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin)

Nothing is more profitable and generates more happiness.

7. The first man who dared to eat an oyster was brave. (Jonathan Swift)

He certainly doesn't look very healthy.

8. Your diet is like a bank account. And good food choices are good investments. (Bethenny Frankel)

An economical way of looking at the gastronomic world.

9. If you can't feed 100 people, feed only one. (Mother Teresa of Calcutta)

Do good, even if it is on a small scale.

10. Let thy medicine be thy food, and food be thy medicine. (Hippocrates)

A great way to connect both worlds.

11. Wine is poetry in a bottle. (Robert Louis Stevenson)

Certainly one of life's most tempting pleasures.

12. Beware of the pastime that is eaten. (Benjamin Franklin)

If we are not careful we may get fat.

13. The pleasure of banquets should be measured not by the abundance of the delicacies, but by the gathering of friends and their conversation. (Cicero)

The food, sometimes, is the least of it.

14. A recipe has no soul. It is the cook who must give soul to the recipe. (Thomas Keller)

One of those gastronomic phrases that all chefs should keep in mind.

15. Spaghetti can be eaten more successfully if you inhale it like a vacuum cleaner. (Sophia Loren)

Funny phrase of this great actress.

16. Promises and cakes are made to be broken. (Jonathan Swift)

A rule of life, from the author of Gulliver's Travels.

17. A well-balanced meal is like a poem to the unfolding of life. (Anthony Burgess)

An apt metaphor.

18. Dessert has to be spectacular because it arrives when the gourmet is no longer hungry. (Alexandre Grimod de la Reyniere)

On the art of pastry making.

19. One of the best things in life is that we must regularly interrupt any work and concentrate our attention on food. (Luciano Pavarotti)

A great distraction worthy of the greatest attention.

20. Eating to music is an insult, both to the cook and to the violinist. (Gilbert Keith Chesterton)

They are pleasures that should not be mixed, according to this British journalist.

21. At home I serve the kind of food whose history I know. (Michael Pollan)

Food is closely linked to its cultural and historical roots.

22. What is important is not what you eat, but how you eat it. (Epictetus)

A phrase on gastronomy and food to reflect on.

23. The secret of being a good actor is the love of food. (Yash Chopra)

A somewhat strange relationship...

24. An open stomach has no ears. (Jean de la Fontaine)

Famous quote that can have different interpretations.

25. A well-prepared meal has delicate flavors that must be retained in the mouth to be appreciated. (Tennessee Williams)

Savor, without haste and recognizing all the ingredients.

26. Years, loves and glasses of wine should never be counted. (Italian proverb)

Countless, because they represent a sublime moment.

27. Life is a combination of magic and pasta. (Federico Fellini)

A phrase very typical of an Italian.

28. A meal without dessert is like a suit without a tie. (Fernand Point)

The icing on the cake, never better said.

29. The only thing I like better than talking about food is eating. (John Walters)

One of the great passions of many human beings.

30. You can't influence the cuisine of a country if you don't understand it. And to understand it, you have to study it. (Ferran Adrià)

The gastronomic culture of each country is unique and unrepeatable.

31. This is my main advice to people: Learn to cook, try new recipes, learn from your mistakes, don't be afraid and above all have fun. (Julia Child)

"Recipe" for being a great chef.

32. The gourmandise is the aptitude of the people towards the passionate, reasoned and habitual preference of what exalts the pleasure of the taste. (Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin)

Haute cuisine phrase.

33. Cooking is an art, but every art requires knowledge of techniques and materials. (Nathan Myhrvold)

There is no art without a series of previous knowledge.

34. When you eat something and your palate tells you what's missing, that's when you start to combine. (Justin Quek)

A glimpse that generates a creative torrent.

35. The best dishes are very simple. (Auguste Escoffier)

Good product, optimal cooking, and little else.

36. Ingredients are not sacred. The art of cooking is sacred. (Tanith Tyrr)

Great reflection of this cook.

37. Eating is sensory. It's about interpreting the information your senses give you. (Andoni Luis Aduriz)

A phrase from one of the world's most renowned chefs.

38. Cooking is not chemistry. It is an art. It requires instinct and taste rather than exact measurements. (Marcel Boulestin)

It is not mathematics, it is emotions and it is, above all, culture.

39. A home cook who relies too much on a recipe is like a pilot who reads the airplane's instruction manual while flying. (Alton Brown)

You have to know how to incorporate a dose of spontaneity.

40. Cooking is so popular today because it is the perfect blend of food and fun. (Emeril Lagasse)

Something we all enjoy.

41. A cook becomes an artist when he has things to say through his plate, like a painter in a painting. (Joan Miró)

This painter knew the difficulty of creating a good dish.

42. Find something you are passionate about and stay tremendously interested in it. (Julia Child)

The recipe for success in anything you set your mind to.

43. Silence is the sound of a good meal. (Jamie Oliver)

When everyone eats heartily, only the bites are heard.

44. He who receives his friends and pays no personal care to the food that has been prepared, does not deserve to have friends. (Anthelme Brillat-Savarin)

A sign of hospitality: cooking well.

45. Recipes don't work unless you use your heart. (Dylan Jones)

A good dose of passion is necessary.

46. Secrets, especially in the kitchen, are best when they are shared so that the kitchen lives on. (Bo Songvisava)

There is no point in keeping recipes or gastronomic tricks to yourself.

47. There is no love more sincere than the love of cooking. (George Bernard Shaw)

A great phrase to love food.

48. These days gastronomy is ambiguous and abstract, journalists are moving more and more from criticism to the description of experiences. (Andoni Luiz Aduriz)

Describing a trend.

49. After all, the truffle is the true diamond of gastronomy. (Jean Antheleme Brillat-Savarin)

Coveted and expensive, it serves to give a unique aroma to each dish.

50. Excellence is in diversity and the way to progress is to know and compare the diversity of products, cultures and techniques. (Alain Ducasse)

A way to progress as a cook.

51. Cooking is a process based on observation, which you cannot do if you are completely focused on the recipe. (Alton Brown)

Intuition and creativity are not explained in a recipe book.

52. You don't have to cook sophisticated or complicated masterpieces, just good food with fresh ingredients. (Julia Child)

Good gender is the guarantee of success.

53. Cooking requires attention, patience and above all respect for the gifts of the earth. It is a form of worship, a way of giving thanks. (Judith B. Jones)

To thank nature for such rich delicacies.

54. I come from a family where salsa is considered a drink. (Erma Bombeck)

Like Homer Simpson's famous line: "-What would you like to drink? -Meatballs.

55. Anyone can make you enjoy the first bite of a dish but only a true chef can make you enjoy the last. (Francois Minot)

When food becomes an experience that goes beyond the physiological.

56. I think every woman should have a blowtorch. (Julia Child)

To free interpretation, since perhaps she was not only referring to its use in the kitchen.

57. Life itself is the binge. (Julia Child)

An endless torrent of emotions and stimuli.

58. Tomatoes and oregano makes it Italian; wine and tarragon makes it French. Sour cream makes it Russian; lemon and cinnamon makes it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese; garlic makes it good. (Alice May Brock)

Ingredients according to typical origin.

59. I can't stand people who don't take food seriously. (Oscar Wilde)

Something very serious, according to the British writer.

60. For fish to have the right taste, it must swim 3 times, once in the sea, once in butter and then in wine. (Polish proverb)

A Polish folk saying that contains a great playful vision of gastronomy.

61. Cooking is a language through which one can express harmony, happiness, beauty, poetry, complexity, magic, humor, provocation, culture. (Ferran Adrià)

The Catalan chef leaves us this summary of what cooking is for him.

62. The primary requirement for writing well about food is a good appetite. (A.J. Liebling)

If you are passionate about eating, you will be a good food critic.

63. Eat all the junk food you want, as long as you cook it yourself. (Michael Pollan)

This is the secret to a healthy life.

64. Nouvelle cuisine "translated into everyday language means" I can't believe I just spent a hundred euros and I'm still hungry. (Mike Kalin)

A critical view on signature cuisine.

65. If it has four legs and it's not a table, eat it. (Cantonese saying)

Every animal being deserves to be tasted, according to this popular saying.

66. Cook's dilemma: The sad poet writes poems and makes you cry. The sad painter paints pictures and manages to move you. The sad musician composes songs and makes you sing. The sad cook... is forbidden to cook. (Gaston Acurio)

If there is no joy, there is no art.

67. How can you govern a country that has 246 different kinds of cheese? (Charles De Gaulle)

A brutal metaphor for France.

68. Sorrows with bread are less. (Miguel de Cervantes)

A way to make sorrows much less suffered.

69. I believe that experience consists of always taking a step beyond what at that moment you think is the best. (Pedro Subijana)

A phrase about gastronomy and cooking by the great Spanish chef.

70. Nothing would be more exhausting than eating and drinking if God had not made them as pleasant as necessary. (Voltaire)

A very accurate reflection.

71. I don't cry over spilt milk, but a dropped scoop of ice cream is enough to ruin my day. (Terri Guillemets)

Wasting food can be a real drama.

72. Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first. (Ernestine Ulmer)

Start at the end, just in case.

73. Cookies are made of butter and love. (Norwegian proverb)

A must-have ingredient.

74. If you are afraid of butter, use cream. (Julia Child)

There are always alternatives in this life.

75. Strength is the ability to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your hands and then eat only one of those pieces. (Judith Viorst)

More accurately, willpower.