Andy Rooney- "I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture, I'd buy a painting."
Annita Manning- "High-tech tomatoes. Mysterious milk. Supersquash. Are we supposed to eat this stuff? Or is it going to eat us?"
Astrid Alauda- "Happiness is a bowl of cherries and a book of poetry under a shade tree."
Benjamin Franklin- "In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires."
Buddy Hackett- "As a child, my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it."
Cervantes- "Hunger is the best sauce in the world."
Channing Pollock- "no man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut."
Danielle Sanchez-Witzel and Michael Pennie- "You know how I feel about tacos. It's the only food shaped like a smile. A beef smile."
Doug Larson- "Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon."
Franklin P. Jones- "You are what you eat. For example, If you eat garlic you're apt to be a hermit."
Julia Child- "...nothing is too much trouble if it turns out the way it should."
Julia Child- "Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it."
Julia Child- "It's so beautifully arranged on the plate- you know someones fingers have been all over it."
Julia Child- "One of the secrets, and pleasures, of cooking is to learn to correct something if it goes awry; and one of the lessons is to grin and bear it if it cannot be fixed."
Julia Child- "The only stumbling block is the fear of failure."
Julia Child- "This is my invariable advice to people: Learn how to cook- try new recipes, learn from your mistakes, be fearless, and above all have fun!"
Julia Child- "You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces- just good food from fresh ingredients."
Laiko Bahrs- "When baking, follow directions. When cooking, go by your own taste."
Leslie Newman- "As the days grow short, some faces grow long. But not mine. Every autumn, when the wind turns cold and darkness comes early, I am suddenly happy. It's time to start making soup again."
Luciano Pavarotti and William Wright- "One of the nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating."
Robert Frost- "There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will."
Sepal Felicivant- "Vegetables are the food of the earth; fruit seems more the food of the heavens."
Spanish Proverb- "The belly rules the mind."
Ulrik Stephens- "I'm not sure what makes pepperoni so good- if it's the pepper or the oni."
Unknown- "Do vegetarians eat animal crackers?"
