Quotes on Gourmet Food

But some of us are beginning to pull well away, in our irritation, from...the exquisite tasters, the vintage snobs, the three-star Michelin gourmets. There is, we feel, a decent area somewhere between boiled carrots and Beluga caviare, sour plonk and Chateau Lafitte, where we can take care of our gullets and bellies without worshipping them.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

Some people who are obsessed with food become gourmet chefs. Others become eating disorders.

You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

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.

As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.

All sorrows are less with bread.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish.