Good Food Quotes
By Alan Reiner – July 18, 2024
‘Your diet is a bank account. Good food choices are good investments.’ – Bethenny Frankel
‘Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it’s more important to make yourself feel good.’ – Ina Garten
‘You don’t need a silver fork to eat good food.’ – Paul Prudhomme
‘Nothing is better than going home to family and eating good food and relaxing.’ – Irina Shayk
‘I like food. I like eating. And I don’t want to deprive myself of good food.’ – Sarah Michelle Gellar
‘I could talk food all day. I love good food.’ – Tom Brady
‘It’s easy to impress me. I don’t need a fancy party to be happy. Just good friends, good food, and good laughs. I’m happy. I’m satisfied. I’m content.’ – Maria Sharapova
‘Even when a person has all of life’s comforts – good food, good shelter, a companion – he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.’ – Dalai Lama
‘Food is for eating, and good food is to be enjoyed… I think food is, actually, very beautiful in itself.’ – Delia Smith
‘In terms of diet, my parents had a restaurant business so I don’t eat any junk food – they taught me to appreciate good food.’ – Camille Rowe
‘Good food and a warm kitchen are what makes a house a home. I always tried to make my home like my mother’s, because Mom was magnificent at stretching a buck when it came to decorating and food. Like a true Italian, she valued beautification in every area of her life, and I try to do the same.’ – Rachael Ray
‘What I’ve enjoyed most, though, is meeting people who have a real interest in food and sharing ideas with them. Good food is a global thing and I find that there is always something new and amazing to learn – I love it!’ – Jamie Oliver
‘People will travel anywhere for good food – it’s crazy.’ – Rene Redzepi
‘We’re all so busy we don’t make time to enjoy our lives, good company and good food.’ – John Torode
‘I get way too much happiness from good food.’ – Elizabeth Olsen
‘Sharing good food with your children is the purest form of love.’ – Monica Galetti
‘Patience is the secret to good food.’ – Gail Simmons
‘My best hostess tip is to have good food and really good music!’ – Jennifer Aniston
‘It is not difficult now to make good food because we have sophisticated equipment and refined ingredients. Being innovative also helps you. It sets you apart from other chefs. But taste is king.’ – Alvin Leung
‘Eating good food is, to me, one of life’s greatest joys, and I will never punish myself for it.’ – Miriam Shor
‘You’re never going to be bulletproof, but if you’re feeding yourself good food and making sure you’re eating the right supplements, I think you reduce the chances of getting any niggling injuries.’ – Chris Smalling
‘I’m very conscious about putting good food into my body. Years ago, I went to see an amazing healer called Allah, who could read your body. She told me that I can’t absorb vitamins very well, and I have to eat the right things to get my vitamins. I’ve always remembered that.’ – Trinny Woodall
‘I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.’ – Bertrand Russell
‘Fitness starts at home. What you eat is what you will look, just as what you sow is what you reap. Eat good food: eat fruits, vegetables, healthy grains, and don’t go for sweet and trite food.’ – Rakul Preet Singh
‘For me, the good food starts with good product.’ – Jean-Georges Vongerichten
‘My brother, a businessman, is the main cook in his home and my sister teaches cookery. Good food and good music were the mainstays of my childhood.’ – Ainsley Harriott
‘I’ve prioritized taking care of my mind, having fun, and doing things that make me laugh. And eating well – as in, really good food, like steak or pasta or fresh vegetables or an amazing dessert. You know, ‘treat yo’self.” – Phillipa Soo
‘On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners.’ – George Mikes
‘I read somewhere that abs are made in the kitchen, and I’d like to agree. I like to think that I try to eat pretty clean, pretty good food.’ – Parker Young
‘I don’t enjoy good food. I don’t enjoy flashy cars. I don’t care if I live in a dump. I don’t enjoy good clothes. This is the best I’ve dressed in months.’ – Jack Kevorkian
‘I feel that good food should be a right and not a privilege, and it needs to be without pesticides and herbicides. And everybody deserves this food. And that’s not elitist.’ – Alice Waters
‘My biggest pet peeve is when you go to a fine restaurant, and it’s like a mausoleum inside. Good food should be joyful. There should be laughter and chatter, not people sitting there like they’re in a funeral-parlor waiting room.’ – Jim Harrison
‘I love food. I’m a big food person. I’m really passionate about eating good food all the time.’ – Dreama Walker
‘I love Spanish food. My diet is the Mediterranean diet, which is good food. I eat well.’ – Penelope Cruz
‘My life as a mother had been one of skipping meals, always saving the ‘good’ food, like fresh fruit, for the kids I told myself deserved it more than I did.’ – Stephanie Land
‘I know I have eaten more good food, drunk more beer and fine wine, had more friends, and seen more of the world than most men ever will.’ – Andre The Giant
‘I am still not a fussy eater, although I do enjoy good food.’ – Yves Chauvin
‘I like to refer to my small social circle as ’boutique.’ And much like the hotels of the same ilk, my friends are all unique, high quality, and serve me good food. But more than that, they teach me things about the world and about myself that I couldn’t learn anywhere else.’ – Dan Levy
‘I don’t want to spend my life not having good food going into my pie hole. That hole was made for pies.’ – Paula Deen
‘Good food is good food. It doesn’t have to come with pretense.’ – Christina Tosi
‘Eating good food energizes me.’ – Suzuka Nakamoto
‘I am proud to have been born in Iowa. Through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy, it was a place of adventure and daily discoveries – the wonder of the growing crops, the excitements of the harvest, the journeys to the woods for nuts and hunting, the joys of snowy winters, the comfort of the family fireside, of good food and tender care.’ – Herbert Hoover
‘Everyone appreciates good food.’ – Michael Seibel
‘Nobody trusts the industrial food system to give them good food.’ – Joel Salatin
‘Too little is it considered, while we gaze on aristocratic beauty, how much good food, soft lying, warm wrapping, ease of mind, have to do with the attractions which command our admiration.’ – Samuel Lover
‘I’d rather have a good food – lots and lots of different varieties of good foods – than search for something perfect.’ – Bee Wilson
‘I’m just trying to cook good food, and I’m not afraid to do whatever I need to do to keep the food evolving.’ – Roy Choi
‘There’s no such thing as ‘bad’ food or ‘good’ food.’ – Ella Woodward
‘I like to eat good food. I cook and collect wine. I like going for long walks when I can.’ – Eric Allman
‘I love good food but I follow strict rules the days I perform.’ – Jose Carreras
‘I promised her an interesting life and good food, and the rest is history.’ – Bob Ehrlich
‘Then you get to be involved with all the people, meet all the beautiful girls, get all the good food, get ready and locked in before all the crowds hit.’ – Paul Kantner
‘Russia will occupy most of the good food lands of central Europe while we have the industrial portions. We must find some way of persuading Russia to play ball.’ – Henry L. Stimson
‘My work has also motivated me to put a lot of time into seeking out good food and to spend more money on it.’ – Michael Pollan
‘As far as luxury goes, about the only thing I do is… I go first class all the way. I live on the road, so when I’m out there, I’m getting the nice hotel suite, I’m getting the luxury car, I’m eating the good food, and I make sure I take care of myself on the road.’ – Trish Stratus
‘If you have good food, people will come to your restaurant.’ – Mickey Gilley
‘How large and varied is the educational bill of fare set before every young gentleman in Great Britain; and to judge by the mental stamina it affords him in most cases, what a waste of good food it is!’ – James Payn
‘A few years ago, kids from poor areas in France were asked to draw items of food. For a chicken, they drew a drumstick. For a fish, they drew a fish stick. Those are extremes, but there is a lot that needs to be done to help children discover good food.’ – Joel Robuchon
‘I’ll paddle board, swim in the ocean, roll in the sand, soak up the sun, eat good food, be with friends and family and go fishing with my dad.’ – Behati Prinsloo
‘I love good food. I’m an epicurean, that’s for sure… But I am not really a good cook.’ – Gaspard Ulliel
‘I’m kind of a homebody. I like to sit at home and watch movies and eat good food.’ – Emilie de Ravin
‘I love really good food and I don’t ever want to spend too much for it, but I like hanging out and having really good, tasty, interesting food.’ – Kris Allen
‘A lot of restaurants serve good food, but they don’t have very good service.’ – Wolfgang Puck
‘For me no good food is illuminated without acidity.’ – Alex Guarnaschelli
‘I’m into mellow dates with really good food.’ – Lauren Conrad
‘I grew up playing music and enjoying good food, friends and family in my own backyard.’ – Rodney Atkins
‘Steakhouses sort of have this old-school nature to them; they’re like museums full of good food. It’s fun hearing the waiter share his expertise on the different cuts of beef and how they’re going to cut up your baked potato.’ – Jim Gaffigan
‘Everything one reads is nourishment of some sort – good food or junk food – and one assumes it all goes in and has its way with your brain cells.’ – Lorrie Moore
‘My father was a food lover and a deadbeat dad, and maybe a connection between good food and bad dads was forged early, in the deepest folds of my subconscious, where we make so many decisions about our parents.’ – J. R. Moehringer
‘I love good food and I love to eat in nice restaurants. I love Japanese food. I love Gordon Ramsay in London; he is pretty amazing.’ – Isla Fisher
‘I don’t think it ever does any harm in any business to feel that there is someone there who cares about it. If you look at any business, fashion being the most obvious, the aura, or the reality of the designer, is part of what creates it. It’s true in luxury goods stores and in good food stores. It leaves a palpable sense that someone cares.’ – Andre Balazs
‘When I’m back in New York – and this is a terrible thing to complain about – I eat a lot more really, really good food than perhaps I’d like to. So many of my friends are really good chefs. It’s kind of like being in the Mafia.’ – Anthony Bourdain
‘I don’t like posh hotels. I like small, eclectic hotels, and luxury for me would mean really good company with good food in a really funky, beautiful house in the middle of a field where someone came and serviced the place for us.’ – Amanda Donohoe
‘Understanding capitalism is in some ways simple. At its best, capitalism rewards creators, makers and providers: the people and firms that create valuable things for others, like imaginative technologies and good food, cars and drugs.’ – Geoff Mulgan
‘It’s important for me who is at the table with me; the moment when everyone speaks to each other and everyone listens. If there’s good food, it’s much better.’ – Andrea Bocelli
‘I really love good food occasionally, but I need time to enjoy it, and I need to be hungry.’ – Clare Balding
‘Luxury is anything you don’t need, right? I mean, you need food, water, clothing, shelter… but good wine, good food, beautiful interiors, nice clothes; those aren’t necessities, they are luxuries – it’s all luxury.’ – Marc Jacobs
‘I don’t want to do anything and everything. I want to be a brand that, every time I leverage my name, I want people to feel sure that it’s going to be something good – so whether it be my movies, my perfume, my restaurant, my musical, it’ll be good work, good food and good everything.’ – Shilpa Shetty
‘Good food for free has been the holy grail of foragers since our ancestors first climbed down from the trees.’ – Tristram Stuart
‘Really, I am just a guy who likes his profession and travelling and good food, and that is it. I’m no different from you or anyone else.’ – Hasnat Khan
‘Good food is healthy food. Food is supposed to sustain you so you can live better, not so you can eat more. Some people eat to live, and some people live to eat.’ – Yolanda Adams
‘I like a restaurant called Bruci, and there’s some really nice people who work there and good food. They change their menu a lot, so maybe that’s what keeps me coming back. I never know what I’m going to get.’ – Paul Dano
‘Eating good food is my favourite thing in the whole world. Nothing is more blissful.’ – Justine Larbalestier
‘When I get out of work early, or if I have some time before I go into the studio, I go to Disneyland for a few hours with my siblings. We just have fun, go on all the rides together, and eat all of the good food.’ – Becky G
‘If I can, I love staying in pajamas all day and watching movies and eating good food.’ – Becky G
‘My dad gave me the gene to enjoy cooking, and to enjoy consuming good food and wine.’ – Danny Meyer
‘It’s incredible what happens when you explain to kids what good food is – they get so excited! They go home and tell their parents… and they’re excited to cook the recipes themselves in class.’ – Tamra Davis
‘Perfect happiness would be knowing that all my family and friends were happy and safe. Then I’d go to a tropical island with my husband where it was gorgeous and fun all day long and interesting and fun all evening. Good food and dancing would be nice, too, and weekly visits from those safe and happy family and friends. Plus world peace.’ – Suzanne Weyn
‘I’m from South Georgia, so my mom, she always cooked some dang good food when I was growing up.’ – Phillip Phillips
‘I love chicken and anything to do with chicken. I love anything that’s homemade. Oh, and BBQ. And I love green beans. There is so much good food. I can go on and on and on.’ – Phillip Phillips
‘There are certain comforts of living here in Dubai, the comforts of so many mosques and so much good food… It’s just that much more secure. And may God keep it safe.’ – Cat Stevens
‘I think food is getting lighter and healthier because people eat out so often. It’s about quality ingredients because that is the root of good food.’ – Jean-Georges Vongerichten
‘I was never totally what we would now call ‘politically correct,’ even in my most militant phase. I always liked good food, good wines. I suppose it was because I had total confidence in myself.’ – Tariq Ali
‘Chicken and horse meat are the best foods for weightlifters, and good food is important.’ – Ilya Ilyin
‘Ironically, when I was in Dubai with the BBC ‘Good Food Show,’ even though it’s an urban area, when you see the vast panorama from the top of the Burj Khalifa, it feels remote, as if it’s just sprung up out of the desert. I like Dubai. I didn’t think I would, but the food and the people were great.’ – Paul Hollywood
‘New Orleans has a lot of good food.’ – Lee Byung-hun
‘I can pick good food, but I can’t pick a good man.’ – Debbie Reynolds
‘I don’t have those superstitious ticks that people have to have something for the road. I like to have good food on the bus, my own pillow, and onesies. Onesies are a must.’ – Lauren Alaina
‘I have some really nice memories of Delhi. Going swimming, roaming around in Defence Colony, cycling in its beautiful, wide lanes, and enjoying good food.’ – Sidharth Malhotra
‘It’s an uphill battle to help our kids learn to make good food decisions – particularly when they are too often presented with an a la carte lunch room choice of french fries or yogurt.’ – Amy Klobuchar
‘For some people, the definition of who is and who isn’t an American defies logic, historical accuracy, common sense, decency, good manners, the milk of human kindness, enjoyment in the good things in life, and love of good food.’ – W. Kamau Bell
‘We have good food in Los Angeles, but it’s not as good as Atlanta food.’ – Storm Reid
‘When I say, ‘Everybody to the table and eat,’ I mean it. That is the glue, the center that holds the family, that gives security. Good food brings everybody to the table.’ – Lidia Bastianich
‘Who doesn’t like to get dressed up and eat good food?’ – Victoria Arlen
‘When I first came to Australia, one thing that struck me was how everything closed early. Singapore is very much a 24/7 place. You can get good food any time of the day – in the middle of the night, even.’ – Ronny Chieng
‘Dinner is often a very celebratory environment, a very safe place, a time to reflect and let the day go and enjoy good food and good wine. It’s a very peaceful moment during the day. A great dinner can change your day around.’ – Brett Gelman
‘One of my dad’s biggest passions is cooking, so we always had good food at home.’ – Bill Skarsgard
‘For a Spaniard, Italy is the best place to live. You’ve got all the beauty, history, art, good food, and fashion.’ – Alvaro Morata
‘I’m a girl, and I’m a cook- I just like to cook, and I don’t like to worry about the distinctions. We’re just supposed to make good food.’ – Anne Burrell
‘Growing up, we always had a big garden, and it just gave me the passion and appreciation for really good food.’ – Anne Burrell
‘My body was built through years of good food – and beer.’ – Dick Strawbridge
‘I heard already there is good food in Guangzhou. I will try this a lot. I think my family will enjoy it as well here.’ – Mousa Dembele
‘I have a crazy work schedule, I don’t eat good food, and I often work through nights, but I am just doing what I love.’ – Atif Aslam
‘I love to kick back at home with some good food, friends, & family and watch DVDs!’ – Jessica Mauboy
‘We need social and emotional learning in our schools. I think we also need to get good food in the schools. We can’t be feeding our kids Pop-Tarts and chocolate milk.’ – Tim Ryan
‘I like good food, and I’ll eat until I’m full.’ – Caroline Flack
‘There is no typical day, not when there are so many people out there that I care about that can’t access good food in their neighborhoods.’ – Roy Choi
‘You can serve good food on a budget provided you don’t waste it.’ – Prue Leith
‘The way to get to like good food is by learning to cook, which is why I’m for ever banging on about children learning to cook.’ – Prue Leith
‘I’m a terrible skier and snowboarder but I still love it. But I also love lying around in the sun, eating good food and doing nothing.’ – Emma Willis
‘It’s not that hard to make good food.’ – Alvin Leung
‘Listen, the conditions in prison as a whole – you’re not sleeping in a comfortable bed, you’re not eating good food, and this is for long periods of time.’ – Michael Sorrentino
‘When you realize that your freedom is being taken away from you, you’re like, ‘You know what, I’m not going to get good food in prison, so I’m going to order McDonald’s, Wendy’s, Chick-fil-A.’ We’re turning up and living our best life, and I did that.’ – Michael Sorrentino
‘I like good food and talking about football.’ – Gennaro Gattuso
‘I like trekking and staying in tents, meeting new people and eating good food.’ – Tripti Dimri
‘I really look up to my parents to guide me. They treat me well, they give me good food to eat.’ – Alphonso Davies
‘Children in my family really look forward to Christmas presents and I enjoy becoming their Santa, eating chocolates, playing and spending some time with them. I also meet up with some of my close friends to have good food. That’s all about Christmas for me.’ – Sunny Singh
‘I enjoy having a quiet celebration over good food with family and a few close friends.’ – Sunny Singh
‘Half a bottle of Black Label and some good food at night are my only requirements.’ – Randhir Kapoor
‘Its challenging getting people to pay the right money to eat really good food and finding great people to work for you.’ – Rick Stein
‘I like good food and I’ve always had a very natural empathy with women.’ – Mick Hucknall
‘Australians do love a good food festival. From regional gems like The Taste of Tasmania to Margaret River Gourmet Escape, diehard eaters have a litany of opportunities to revel in Australia’s great produce and chow down on food made by some of the brightest culinary talent from here and abroad.’ – Melissa Leong
‘They have some good food in Sarasota.’ – Kei Nishikori
‘Well, Memphis isn’t the most active city, but we find ways to have fun, whether it’s going bowling, maybe to the movies, going out to eat. We eat a lot here because there’s a lot of good food.’ – Mike Conley Jr.
‘I am happy to see that it is not just me, but even my friends and family now believe in green Diwali and we celebrate together eating lots of good food and sweets.’ – Mohit Raina
‘So many of our large anchor institutions also have tremendous purchasing power. If we were coordinating that and incentivizing good food procurement across the board, that’s a tremendous impact that the city can drive.’ – Michelle Wu
‘I literally didn’t know how to drop an egg into boiling water nor how to retrieve it. But I bought a book called ‘Good Food From France’ and my first meal turned out miraculously well.’ – Jean Marsh
‘I just want to cook good food and cook good food that pleases people.’ – Antonia Lofaso
‘I’m a huge believer in that food can taste good in general and I never close my eyes or boundaries to where good food comes from.’ – Antonia Lofaso