Dining Pleasure Quotes

Dining partners, regardless of gender, social standing, or the years they've lived, should be chosen for their ability to eat - and drink! - with the right mixture of abandon and restraint. They should enjoy food, and look upon its preparation and its degustation as one of the human arts.

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.

I had my first French meal and I never got over it. It was just marvelous. We had oysters and a lovely dry white wine. And then we had one of those lovely scalloped dishes and the lovely, creamery buttery sauce. Then we had a roast duck and I don't know what else.

I spend more time in the kitchen than I have in the dining room, for obvious reasons, however, I just want to sit and indulge.

When the taste changes with every bite and the last bite tastes as good as the first, that's Cajun.

The critic has to do more of what the book critics and art critics have done in the past. Which is give you a context for understanding the restaurant, give you a better way to appreciate it, give you the tools to go in there and be a more informed diner who can get more pleasure out of the experience.

I like to eat. Definitely. I love sitting around a table with my friends. But I don't know how to cook anything.

When you go to a restaurant, the less you know about what happens in the kitchen, the more you enjoy your meal.

I have an impressionable palate. A well-worded menu or beautifully presented dish excites me. I get a great deal of pleasure just thinking about food.

Meat, to me, it's slightly boring. Hold on, I love meat too, but only once in a while. You get a piece of meat, and you put it in your mouth, you chew, the first five seconds, all the juices flow around your mouth, they're gone, and then you are 20 more seconds chewing something that is tasteless at this point.

I loved the cooking; that was what I was passionate about, but getting to watch the guests eat - because you could see everything from the kitchen - just watching people eat and looking at the plates when they came back, just understanding, this is such an amazing job.

There has never been a shrimp that I've eaten that I haven't been like, 'I am so lucky that I get to eat this.' I would eat a shrimp enchilada, shrimp burrito, shrimp cocktail, fried shrimp, shrimp po boy, shrimp gumbo.

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 learned that things taste better on pretty plates.

I love fantasizing about what my next meal is going to be; it's probably my favorite topic of conversation.

A meal can be an erotic experience in itself.

Dining should be a delightful and a beautiful experience.

Eating is one of the great pleasures of life.

I think eating in itself is the act of great sensuality, so all you have to do is point the camera in the right direction.

I've always liked food - a lot.