Food as Love Quotes

Food is a great way of communicating.

I think careful cooking is love, don't you? The loveliest thing you can cook for someone who's close to you is about as nice a valentine as you can give.

The way to anybody's heart is through a thoughtfully-prepared, beautifully-executed, lovingly-presented meal.

For me, cooking is a way to try and please people and tell them I love them. When I fall in love with someone, I want to feed them as well.

For me, cooking is very connected to my family and friends.

In my family, and especially when I go back to China, it's always like, prepare your stomach, because it's the way that they express love.

Cookbooks hit you where you live. You want comfort; you want security; you want food; you want to not be hungry and not only do you want those basic things fixed, you want it done in a really nice, gentle way that makes you feel loved. That's a big desire, and cookbooks say to the person reading them, 'If you will read me, you will be able to do this for yourself and for others. You will make everybody feel better.'

I wanted to keep that message of food and family alive, and how it brings people together and builds relationships and communication.

Learn to cook. The way to someone's heart is through their stomach, whether for a friend or a significant other.

When I was a little kid, it was not uncommon for a cousin or an uncle, before they would even say 'Hello,' to gush, 'You know, your mother's brisket is just incredible; it's so good.' That was an inspiration for creating a love song in that well-worn terrain of the relationship between a Jewish boy and his mother.

I think perhaps we all cook to feed some kind of hunger in ourselves. I am nourished by being surrounded by family and friends, by creating something delicious for them, by nurturing them.

Cooking is creating emotion.

The truth is that most marriages have food as a major player in them, and certainly mine does.

Growing up, I cooked in the house, and when I cooked, everyone would sit down and eat, and it was just kind of the way I connected with my family.

I come from a big Irish family who force-fed me as a kid, so not eating was never an option.

I call it soul food, and I call it compassion food because it kind of bonds loved ones together. It kept families together for a long time.

The best thing you can do for someone is make them a beautiful plate of food. How else can you invade someone's body without actually touching them?

I was an overweight kid, and my father struggled with his weight, too. We would go for a ride on his motorcycle on Sunday morning to get doughnuts, to make pizza together, or go get ice cream. I quickly learned that food equalled love and attention.

They say the way to a man's heart is through his stomach. It's the same way with women... or at least the ones I want to be with.