Culinary Quotes Archive

This is a collection of quotes about food by people familiar to the culinary world and not.

Posted July 2, 2020
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“The less food, the more time to talk, the more to talk about.”

Damon Wayans
Posted June 25, 2020
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“I’m a big pasta fan. I’m a big Italian food fan. Anything Italian – I love cheese, mozzarella. Mozzarella is my favorite, so I have to say anything Italian, I’ll take it.”

Malin Akerman
Posted June 18, 2020
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“A new idea – whether it’s a way to collect solar energy more efficiently or a cheaper way to desalinate sea water or a new seed to boost the amount of food we can grow – can stretch the physical resources we have, or even multiply them. And the ideas themselves don’t ever wear out.”

Ramez Naam
Posted June 11, 2020
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“You can make real food in 20, 30 minutes, but we’ve convinced ourselves that it is a rocket science. It’s a shame. It’s the media and the food industry: they’ve fed our panic around time.”

Michael Pollan
Posted June 4, 2020
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“Cheese. Milk’s leap towards immortality.”

Clifton Fadiman
Posted May 28, 2020
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“I did this book ‘Harvest for Hope,’ and I learned so much about food. And one thing I learned is that we have the guts not of a carnivore, but of an herbivore. Herbivore guts are very long because they have to get the last bit of nutrition out of leaves and things.”

Jane Goodall
Posted May 21, 2020
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“I love photography, I love food, and I love traveling, and to put those three things together would just be the ultimate dream.”

Jamie Chung
Posted May 10, 2020
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“I love Italian food.”

Jaleel White
Posted May 10, 2020
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“There is no sight on earth more appealing than the sight of a woman making dinner for someone she loves.”

Thomas Wolfe
Posted May 10, 2020
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“We have wild animals in zoos, yet people rarely meet their ‘food’ face to face.”

Elayne Boosler
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