SOME OF MY FAVORITE FOOD QUOTES

"Breathe deeply and attack life with gusto! Cook, serve, and eat, with the capacity to enjoy, to capture the mood of festivity, to savor conversation, and to appreciate company." -- I found on the menu board at Poteger restaurant in Denver around 2002?

"Mangi la vita" (Eat life) --This one is mine.

"One of the delights of life is eating with friends, second to that is talking about eating. And, for an unsurpassed double whammy, there is talking about eating while you are eating with friends." -- Laurie Colwin, 'Home Cooking'

"Life Tastes Good" - From a restaurant in Trinadad, per Saveur magazine - March 2006?

"Vegtables are a must in a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie" - Garfield (from "A cat in the kitchen" food blog: www.acatinthekitchen.com)

"I don't like gourmet cooking or 'this' cooking or 'that' cooking. I like 'good cooking.'" -- James Beard (1903-1985)

"In our opinion food should be sniffed lustily at table, both as a matter of precaution and as a matter of enjoyment, the sniffing of it to be regarded in the same light as the tasting of it." -- E.B. White (1899-1985) American essayist

"Eat till it hurts, drink till it feels better." -- Found on menu at Restaurant/Saloon in Fraser, CO April 2005 with Donna.

“I have long believed that good food, good eating is all about risk. Whether we're talking about unpasteurized Stilton, raw oysters or working for organized crime 'associates,' food, for me, has always been an adventure.”
-- Anthony Bourdain, 'Kitchen Confidential (2000)

“Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.”-- Doug Larson

“From Black pudding to pickled jellyfish, beauty lies in the eye of the beholder. What we see and taste as beautiful depends largely on what our family and friends approve of -- with just a little room for personal preference.”
-- Laurence Mound, Keeper of Entomology, British Museum, Natural History; Introduction to 1988 reprint of 'Why Not Eat Insects' by Vincent M. Holt (1885)

“I never have more than one drink before dinner. But I do like that one to be large and very strong and very cold and very well made.” -- James Bond, ‘Casino Royale’

"Burgundy makes you think of silly things; Bordeaux makes you talk about them, and Champagne makes you do them." -- Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

"What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of chocolate." -- Katherine Hepburn

"Some people like to paint pictures, or do gardening, or build a boat in the basement. Other people get a tremendous pleasure out of the kitchen, because cooking is just as creative and imaginative an activity as drawing, or wood carving, or music." -- Julia Child

"Cooking is like love, it should be entered into with abandon or not at all" -- Harriet van Horne

“Cooking is an art, but you eat it too.” -- Marcella Hazan

"Never trust a skinny cook" -- Unknown

"Exercize is walking into the kitchen" -- Found in a forum on the ChocolateAndZucchini.com blog

"Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to good will and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale." -- Italian fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli

It's a Wonderful Life — At the Martinis' housewarming.
Mary: Bread... that this house may never know hunger.
[Mary hands a loaf of bread to Mrs. Martini]
Mary: Salt... that life may always have flavor.
[Mary hands a box of salt to Mrs. Martini]
George Bailey: And wine... that joy and prosperity may reign forever. Enter the Martini Castle.
[George hands Mr. Martini a bottle of wine]

"How can I take it seriously? Even my best work turns into poop the next day." Chef Mario Batali said of his fame

"The gentle art of gastronomy is a friendly one. It hurdles the language barrier, makes friends among civilized people, and warms the heart." Samuel Chamberlain

The family dinner table is the cornerstone of civilization and those who 'graze' from refrigerators or in front of the television sets are doomed to remain in a state of savagery. Miss Manners