Food as Expression Quotes

I think careful cooking is love, don't you? The loveliest thing you can cook for someone who's close to you is about as nice a valentine as you can give.

The way to anybody's heart is through a thoughtfully-prepared, beautifully-executed, lovingly-presented meal.

Food is a great way of communicating.

Well, food's always the way to anybody's heart, I think, guy or girl.

For me, cooking is a way to try and please people and tell them I love them. When I fall in love with someone, I want to feed them as well.

I cook stuff that I picked up from my husband's mother. I thought that would be a good way to his heart, you know. I love to cook Italian and French, also.

The Italians and Spanish, the Chinese and Vietnamese see food as part of a larger, more essential and pleasurable part of daily life. Not as an experience to be collected or bragged about - or as a ritual like filling up a car - but as something else that gives pleasure, like sex or music, or a good nap in the afternoon.

I don't cook, and I don't care to, but Gabrielle Hamilton made me realize that food is about love and connection. And she has had a hell of an interesting life.

More and more, museums will look at restaurants and chefs differently - as if they are curating art.

I am fascinated by how people eat and what it reveals about them.

For me, cooking is the only way I know how to show my love. That's why I am so passionate about food. It's such a love language.

We can all be defined by food.

If you're like me, food is a medium for communication. It's an expression of love and affection.

'Tampopo's amazing. I think it's an absolutely fantastic movie, but I don't think it captures for me the meaning of food.

To me, what I'm interested in, in the end, is the meaning of food in our lives.

The fact that food plays such an important part in my films has everything to do with my family.

I guess I've always been kind of obsessed with food. I always liked drawing food, and I always liked stories - I think I probably just read somewhere that stories are better if someone's eating in them. I don't know where that came from, but it really stuck, and I always try to put food in.

I used to have a monthly cookery column, and am a big cook, so that whole sense of connecting what one does with food to one's cultural identity has always been fascinating to me.

Food can be expressive and therefore food can be art.

Food can be a material, and you can use it as a way to project concepts.

The original title for 'In the Mood for Love' was called 'A Story About Food.' The idea was to tell a love story through different courses.