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Good Food Quotes

By Alan Reiner | Jul 18, 2024 | 139 quotes
  1. “Your diet is a bank account. Good food choices are good investments.”

    Bethenny Frankel
  2. “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
  3. “You don't need a silver fork to eat good food.”

    Paul Prudhomme
  4. “Nothing is better than going home to family and eating good food and relaxing.”

    Irina Shayk
  5. “I like food. I like eating. And I don't want to deprive myself of good food.”

    Sarah Michelle Gellar
  6. “I could talk food all day. I love good food.”

    Tom Brady
  7. “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
  8. “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
  9. “Food is for eating, and good food is to be enjoyed… I think food is, actually, very beautiful in itself.”

    Delia Smith
  10. “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
  11. “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
  12. “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
  13. “People will travel anywhere for good food - it's crazy.”

    Rene Redzepi
  14. “We're all so busy we don't make time to enjoy our lives, good company and good food.”

    John Torode
  15. “I get way too much happiness from good food.”

    Elizabeth Olsen
  16. “Sharing good food with your children is the purest form of love.”

    Monica Galetti
  17. “Patience is the secret to good food.”

    Gail Simmons
  18. “My best hostess tip is to have good food and really good music!”

    Jennifer Aniston
  19. “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
  20. “Eating good food is, to me, one of life's greatest joys, and I will never punish myself for it.”

    Miriam Shor
  21. “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
  22. “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
  23. “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
  24. “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
  25. “For me, the good food starts with good product.”

    Jean-Georges Vongerichten
  26. “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
  27. “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
  28. “On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners.”

    George Mikes
  29. “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
  30. “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
  31. “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
  32. “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
  33. “I love food. I'm a big food person. I'm really passionate about eating good food all the time.”

    Dreama Walker
  34. “I love Spanish food. My diet is the Mediterranean diet, which is good food. I eat well.”

    Penelope Cruz
  35. “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
  36. “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
  37. “I am still not a fussy eater, although I do enjoy good food.”

    Yves Chauvin
  38. “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
  39. “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
  40. “Good food is good food. It doesn't have to come with pretense.”

    Christina Tosi
  41. “Eating good food energizes me.”

    Suzuka Nakamoto
  42. “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
  43. “Everyone appreciates good food.”

    Michael Seibel
  44. “Nobody trusts the industrial food system to give them good food.”

    Joel Salatin
  45. “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
  46. “I'd rather have a good food - lots and lots of different varieties of good foods - than search for something perfect.”

    Bee Wilson
  47. “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
  48. “There's no such thing as 'bad' food or 'good' food.”

    Ella Woodward
  49. “I like to eat good food. I cook and collect wine. I like going for long walks when I can.”

    Eric Allman
  50. “I love good food but I follow strict rules the days I perform.”

    Jose Carreras
  51. “I promised her an interesting life and good food, and the rest is history.”

    Bob Ehrlich
  52. “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
  53. “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
  54. “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
  55. “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
  56. “If you have good food, people will come to your restaurant.”

    Mickey Gilley
  57. “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
  58. “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
  59. “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
  60. “I love good food. I'm an epicurean, that's for sure… But I am not really a good cook.”

    Gaspard Ulliel
  61. “I'm kind of a homebody. I like to sit at home and watch movies and eat good food.”

    Emilie de Ravin
  62. “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
  63. “A lot of restaurants serve good food, but they don't have very good service.”

    Wolfgang Puck
  64. “For me no good food is illuminated without acidity.”

    Alex Guarnaschelli
  65. “I'm into mellow dates with really good food.”

    Lauren Conrad
  66. “I grew up playing music and enjoying good food, friends and family in my own backyard.”

    Rodney Atkins
  67. “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
  68. “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
  69. “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
  70. “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
  71. “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
  72. “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
  73. “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
  74. “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
  75. “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
  76. “I really love good food occasionally, but I need time to enjoy it, and I need to be hungry.”

    Clare Balding
  77. “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
  78. “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
  79. “Good food for free has been the holy grail of foragers since our ancestors first climbed down from the trees.”

    Tristram Stuart
  80. “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
  81. “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
  82. “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
  83. “Eating good food is my favourite thing in the whole world. Nothing is more blissful.”

    Justine Larbalestier
  84. “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
  85. “If I can, I love staying in pajamas all day and watching movies and eating good food.”

    Becky G
  86. “My dad gave me the gene to enjoy cooking, and to enjoy consuming good food and wine.”

    Danny Meyer
  87. “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
  88. “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
  89. “I'm from South Georgia, so my mom, she always cooked some dang good food when I was growing up.”

    Phillip Phillips
  90. “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
  91. “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
  92. “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
  93. “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
  94. “Chicken and horse meat are the best foods for weightlifters, and good food is important.”

    Ilya Ilyin
  95. “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
  96. “New Orleans has a lot of good food.”

    Lee Byung-hun
  97. “I can pick good food, but I can't pick a good man.”

    Debbie Reynolds
  98. “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
  99. “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
  100. “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
  101. “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
  102. “We have good food in Los Angeles, but it's not as good as Atlanta food.”

    Storm Reid
  103. “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
  104. “Who doesn't like to get dressed up and eat good food?”

    Victoria Arlen
  105. “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
  106. “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
  107. “One of my dad's biggest passions is cooking, so we always had good food at home.”

    Bill Skarsgard
  108. “For a Spaniard, Italy is the best place to live. You've got all the beauty, history, art, good food, and fashion.”

    Alvaro Morata
  109. “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
  110. “Growing up, we always had a big garden, and it just gave me the passion and appreciation for really good food.”

    Anne Burrell
  111. “My body was built through years of good food - and beer.”

    Dick Strawbridge
  112. “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
  113. “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
  114. “I love to kick back at home with some good food, friends, & family and watch DVDs!”

    Jessica Mauboy
  115. “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
  116. “I like good food, and I'll eat until I'm full.”

    Caroline Flack
  117. “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
  118. “You can serve good food on a budget provided you don't waste it.”

    Prue Leith
  119. “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
  120. “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
  121. “It's not that hard to make good food.”

    Alvin Leung
  122. “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
  123. “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
  124. “I like good food and talking about football.”

    Gennaro Gattuso
  125. “I like trekking and staying in tents, meeting new people and eating good food.”

    Tripti Dimri
  126. “I really look up to my parents to guide me. They treat me well, they give me good food to eat.”

    Alphonso Davies
  127. “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
  128. “I enjoy having a quiet celebration over good food with family and a few close friends.”

    Sunny Singh
  129. “Half a bottle of Black Label and some good food at night are my only requirements.”

    Randhir Kapoor
  130. “Its challenging getting people to pay the right money to eat really good food and finding great people to work for you.”

    Rick Stein
  131. “I like good food and I've always had a very natural empathy with women.”

    Mick Hucknall
  132. “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
  133. “They have some good food in Sarasota.”

    Kei Nishikori
  134. “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
  135. “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
  136. “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
  137. “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
  138. “I just want to cook good food and cook good food that pleases people.”

    Antonia Lofaso
  139. “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

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