What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child? ~Lin Yutang

We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink… ~Epicurus

Don’t eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food.” ~Michael Pollan

A fruit is a vegetable with looks and money. Plus, if you let fruit rot, it turns into wine, something Brussels sprouts never do. ~P.J. O’Rourke

The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you’re hungry again. ~George Miller

Fish, to taste right, must swim three times — in water, in butter, and in wine. ~Polish Proverb

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch. ~Orson Welles

“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” 
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“Humor keeps us alive. Humor and food. Don’t forget food. You can go a week without laughing.” 
― Joss Whedon

“your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.” 
― Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

“Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cream makes it Russian; lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese; garlic makes it good.” 
― Alice May Brock

“Anybody who believes that the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach flunked geography. ” 
― Robert Byrne

“I’m pretty sure that eating chocolate keeps wrinkles away because I have never seen a 10 year old with a Hershey bar and crows feet.” 
― Amy Neftzger

“There is no technique, there is just the way to do it.
Now, are we going to measure or are we going to cook?” 
― Frances Mayes, Under the Tuscan Sun

“What kind of person doesn’t let you have gummi bears?” 
― Libba Bray, Beauty Queens

“The gentle art of gastronomy is a friendly one. It hurdles the language barrier, makes friends among civilized people, and warms the heart.” 
― Samuel V. Chamberlain

“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.” 
― M.F.K. Fisher, Serve It Forth