Appreciating Food Quotes

Eat every meal as if it's your last; when the last one comes, you probably won't be very hungry.

If you take all your meals seriously, none of them gets a chance to matter.

It is the mark of a mean, vulgar and ignoble spirit to dwell on the thought of food before meal times or worse to dwell on it afterwards, to discuss it and wallow in the remembered pleasures of every mouthful. Those whose minds dwell before dinner on the spit, and after on the dishes, are fit only to be scullions.

Sitting down and sharing a meal together combines two of my favorite loves: eating great food and talking about great food.

Sir, Respect Your Dinner: idolize it, enjoy it properly. You will be many hours in the week, many weeks in the year, and many years in your life happier if you do.

Eat with consciousness. When you eat with consciousness, and you know what you're eating, and you eat it in full appreciation of what it is, it's enormously satisfying.

Eat deliberately, with other people whenever possible, and always with pleasure.

To eat with a fuller consciousness of all that is at stake might sound like a burden, but in practice few things in life afford quite as much satisfaction.