A. J. Liebling Quotes

I had decided I wanted to write about food, and I knew the only way to do that is to speak with authority, which meant learning the language and knowing what that experience is like.

I'm not a food critic, and I'm not really an authority to write anything on food.

The truth is, as much as I loved writing restaurant reviews, it always felt very self-indulgent to me. It was so much fun, I loved doing it, but there's so much else to say about food.

I actually live to eat.

I think I wrote my first piece about food in 1978.

A question I'm often asked by viewers is - what do I do when I taste something I don't like in one of our food segments? First of all you need to know that I like almost everything. Eating makes me hungry. That said, occasionally when something one of our guests whips up is not to my liking I'll usually say something like 'mmmmm... interesting.'

I like to eat and I love the diversity of foods.

If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.

You can be a decent critic if you know about food, but to be a really good one, you need to know about life.

The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.

There are those people that eat to live and those that live to eat. I am of the latter, as many of you already know. To me, eating is an adventure.

I love everything about food; if you took it away you would be depriving me of one of my greatest pleasures. I love the whole process of it - buying it, cooking it, eating it, talking about it, talking over it.

The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.

Eating is one of the most important aspects of living. I like indulging. I like to eat one food at a time, to savor each individual thing.

Monkeys don't enjoy or appreciate flavours. Experts have told us that human beings are the only beings that can appreciate food at this higher level and the only living beings that cook.

I have a good collection of cookery books. This is not so much because I like cooking, but because I like eating.

My dad gave me the gene to enjoy cooking, and to enjoy consuming good food and wine.

You know, I used to think I was a foodie, and then my wife went to culinary school and basically explained to me that I was just a guy that likes to eat.

Not to like ice cream is to show oneself uninterested in food.

I could talk food all day. I love good food.

I don't want to spend my life not having good food going into my pie hole. That hole was made for pies.

Food is for eating, and good food is to be enjoyed... I think food is, actually, very beautiful in itself.

I always said your best palate is your own, not mine. I'm a guidepost.

I adore food and always have.

Too few people understand a really good sandwich.