Quotes

Quotes – Celebrities

“Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food.”
Alfred Hitchcock, (1899-1980)

“It’s bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children’s health than the pediatrician.”
Meryl Streep

“My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.”
Orson Welles

Quotes – Chefs

“A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart, who looks at her watch.”
James Beard (1903-1985)
 
“Fake food — I mean those patented substances chemically flavored and mechanically bulked out to kill the appetite and deceive the gut — is unnatural, almost immoral, a bane to good eating and good cooking.”
Julia Child (1912-2004)
 
“Serve this dish with much too much wine for your guests, along with some cooked green vegetables and a huge salad. You will be famous in about half an hour.”
Jeff Smith (The Frugal Gourmet)

Quotes – Journalists

“Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling.”
Dave Barry, Miami Herald Columnist

Quotes – Politicians

“My own remedy is always to eat, just before I step into bed, a hot roasted onion, if I have a cold.”
George Washington

“Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger