Culinary Quotes: Pithy, Clever and Funny

Culinary Quotes

While designing, developing and maintaining The Artistry of Jacques Pepin website, I was always coming across culinary quotations, sometimes pithy, sometimes clever and sometimes funny. I began collecting them and, eventually, started to match them with photographs. You can click through the thumbnails below to see them larger. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do.

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“What I say is that if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.” A.A.Milne Culinary Quote (for the Artistry of Jacques Pepin)

“A late summer garden has a tranquility found no other time of year.” William F. Longwood Culinary Quote (for the Artistry of Jacques Pepin)

“I have measured out my life in coffee spoons.” T. S. Eliot Culinary Quote (for the Artistry of Jacques Pepin)

“There is no sincerer love than the love of food.” George Bernard Shaw

“To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.” Audrey Hepburn Culinary Quote (for the Artistry of Jacques Pepin)

“All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.” Federico Fellini

“An onion can make people cut, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh.” Will Rogers Culinary Quote (for the Artistry of Jacques Pepin)

“Wine is bottled poetry.” Robert Louis Stevenson

“No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.” Christopher Morley Culinary Quote (for the Artistry of Jacques Pepin)

“You don’t have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces. Just good food from fresh ingredients.” Julia Child Culinary Quote (for the Artistry of Jacques Pepin)

“Cooking is an expression that crosses boundaries.” Ranveer Brar Culinary Quote (for the Artistry of Jacques Pepin)

“It’s difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.” Lewis Grizzard Culinary Quote (for the Artistry of Jacques Pepin)

“The preparation of good food is merely another expression of art, one of the joys of civilized living.” Dione Lucas Culinary Quote (for the Artistry of Jacques Pepin)

“We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.” David Mamet Culinary Quote (for the Artistry of Jacques Pepin)

“What I say is that if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.” A. A. Milne

“A recipe has no soul, you as the cook must bring soul to the recipe.” Thomas Keller

“Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried with fewer tensions and more tolerance.” Benjamin Franklin Culinary Quote (for the Artistry of Jacques Pepin)

“When a man’s stock is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.” Euripides Culinary Quote (for the Artistry of Jacques Pepin)

“I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regretted most of them...”

“Variety’s the very spice of life, that gives it all it’s flavor.” William Cowper

“Food is for eating, and good food is to be enjoyed. I think food is, actually, very beautiful in itself.” Delia Smith Culinary Quote (for the Artistry of Jacques Pepin)

“I like rice. Rice is great if you're hungry and want 2,000 of something.” Mitch Hedberg Culinary Quote (for the Artistry of Jacques Pepin)

“All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.” John Gunther Culinary Quote (for the Artistry of Jacques Pepin)

“The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure no slight pleasure.” Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

“Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.” M. F. K. Fisher Culinary Quote (for the Artistry of Jacques Pepin)

“I’m just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.” Maya Angelou

“Food is our common ground, a universal experience.” James Beard Culinary Quote (for the Artistry of Jacques Pepin)

“Promises and pie crust are meant to be broken.” Jonathan Swift Culinary Quote (for the Artistry of Jacques Pepin)

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

“First we eat, then we do everything else.” M.F.K. Fisher

“Life is a combination of magic and pasta.” Federico Fellini Culinary Quote (for the Artistry of Jacques Pepin)

“Cookery is naturally the most ancient of the arts, as of all arts it is the most important.” George Ellwanger Culinary Quote (for the Artistry of Jacques Pepin)

“Cooking is the art of adjustment.” Jacques Pepin

“Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering it will be happier.” Alfred Lord Tennyson (New Year’s Eve) Culinary Quote (for the Artistry of Jacques Pepin)

“The smell of cooking food is often a calming one.” Daniel Handler Culinary Quote (for the Artistry of Jacques Pepin)

“Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first.” Ernestine Ulmer

“An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup.” H. L. Mencken Culinary Quote (for the Artistry of Jacques Pepin)

“Cooking can cure almost anything.” Michelle Dockery

“Don’t Judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.” Robert Louis Stevenson

“Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art. It requires instinct and taste rather than exact measurements.” Marcel Boulestin

“Vegetables are food of the earth, but fruits taste of the heavens.” Terri Guillemets Culinary Quote (for the Artistry of Jacques Pepin)

“Only the pure of heart can make a good soup.” Ludwig van Beethoven Culinary Quote (for the Artistry of Jacques Pepin)

“Cooking is like love. IT should be entered into with abandon or not at all.” Harriet van Horne

“Life is a combination of magic and pasta.” Federico Fellini

“A waffle is like a pancake with a syrup trap.” Mitch Hedberg Culinary Quote (for the Artistry of Jacques Pepin)

“Patriotism is the love of the dishes of our childhood.” Lin Yutang

“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” Virginia Woolf

Graphic Design: Paul Kazmercyk | Photography: Online Stock Images: iStockPhoto, 123RF, GraphicStock | Client: The Artistry of Jacques Pepin

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