John Muir Quotes

Good bread and good butter go together. They are one of the perfect marriages in gastronomy, and they never fail to cheer me.

Let's face it: my life tends to revolve around food, and I love feeding people.

I love watching people enjoying food. It's very relaxing for me to cook.

I hated the Naked Chef. Fine, yes, he did good things for school food or whatever, but, you know, I don't want my chefs to be cute and adorable.

It is true that there comes a time when I do literally dream about McDonald's. I dream of supermarkets and drug stores, potato chips and the Sunday morning paper.

If I had to give up cheese or chocolate, I'd give up chocolate in a heartbeat.

I'm fascinated by food. Food is love, isn't it?

Food is so important - it sustains us, it provides a social focal point, and it is fun. I cannot unravel the difference between love in my family and the preparation of food because they are so closely woven.

Food is a passion. Food is love.

Any Southerner is spoiled when it comes to food.

A formative cookbook for me was Nigella Lawson's 'How to Eat.' Its warm, conversational tone is wonderful.

Nothing grounds you like a real authentic Mexican taco.

I stopped eating dairy; it's hard, being from New York I have a soft spot in my heart for pizza.

I ate cottage cheese all the time growing up, but it wasn't until I was in college that I became aware of the stigma surrounding it.

The average person is still under the aberrant delusion that food should be somebody else's responsibility until I'm ready to eat it.

Contemporaries live from second hand to mouth.

I like the smell of toast. Coffee is okay, but I don't drink much coffee. But toast is a nice smell. You smell some toast coming from your kitchen in the morning, you know that you're involved in a domestic situation and the operation that's going on is pleasant.

The most conventional customs cling to the table. Farmers who wouldn't drive a horse too hard expect pie three times a day.

I really enjoy simple things in life. I just like the idea of bringing together a few ingredients and being able to transform it into something delicious and warm that my friends can sit around and enjoy. Most of my socializing is based around good food and good wine.

I do like a little bit of butter to my bread.

When everyone has let you down... You still have ice cream.

I never laugh until I've had my coffee.

People don't go to Starbucks for the coffee - of that I'm pretty sure - they go for the atmosphere, they go for the 70 decibels, they go for the Starbucks effect.

The French don't know how to cook breakfast.

I made orange juice from concentrate and showed her the trick of squeezing the juice of one real orange into it. It removes the taste of being frozen. She marveled at this, and I laughed and said, Life is easy. What I meant was, Life is easy with you here, and when you leave, it will be hard again.