Gastronomic Pleasure Quotes

When we sit at the table, there is more going on than satisfying hunger. It is sad to think of those who eat simply to satisfy their hunger and who do not permit themselves to linger under the many spells offered by a good meal - the satisfaction of our hearts, our minds and our spirits.

Bread, soup - these were my whole life. I was a body. Perhaps less than that even: a starved stomach. The stomach alone was aware of the passage of time.

Good food is the basis of true happiness

All food is comfort food. Maybe I just like to chew.

Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness.

The rest of the world lives to eat, while I eat to live.

Your stew, so long deferred, stands finally extra causas. Greet it as your fellow creature. It is as deliciously unnecessary as you are.

Smother me in your hot sauce woman until smoke comes from your thighs.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

It's fun to get together and have something good to eat at least once a day. That's what human life is all about - enjoying things.

Cheese has always been a food that both sophisticated and simple humans love.

...appetite turns common food into the fare of kings.

Is it a good hot dog? That’s all I want to know … I don’t think the personal health and purity of my colon is that important compared to pleasure. As a chef, I’m not your dietitian or your ethicist. I’m in the pleasure business …. My responsibility is to give you the most delicious tomato that I can afford, given the circumstances, and maybe increase the likelihood that you get laid after dinner.

The banquet is in the first bite.

There is poetry in a pork chop to a hungry man.

Martin, at my age, eroticism is reduced to enjoying caramel custard and looking at widows' necks.' - Senor Sempere.

Food is a part of our contract with life.

Millions of American women, and some men, commit that outrage every summer day. They are turning a superb treat into mere provender. Shucked and boiled in water, sweet corn is edible and nutritious; roasted in the husk in the hottest possible oven for forty minutes, shucked at the table, and buttered and salted, nothing else, it is ambrosia. No chef’s ingenuity and imagination have ever created a finer dish. American women should themselves be boiled in water.

Noodles are not only amusing but delicious.

Eating a cookie never feels strange. I am a big believer in food in general.

A complete lack of caution is perhaps one of the true signs of a real gourmet: he has no need for it, being filled as he is with a God-given and intelligently self-cultivated sense of gastronomical freedom.

This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest men.

La truffe n'est point un aphrodisiaque positif; mais elle peut, en certaines occasions, rendre les femmes plus tendres et les hommes plus aimables. The truffle is not a true aphrodisiac; but in certain circumstances it can make women more affectionate and men more attentive.

The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star.