for Best Chefs America
Food is a metaphor for the human condition. It is a reflection of what you do with what you have. To learn to eat is to learn to fully live. Let these 15 quotes from the great masters guide your dining adventures.
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2. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. - J.R.R. Tolken
3. To know how to eat well, one must first know how to wait. - Marco Pierre White
4. Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch. - Orson Welles
5. Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like. - Mark Twain
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7. Food is our common ground, a universal experience - James Beard
8. You don’t need a silver fork to eat good food. - Paul Prudhomme
9. Everything you see I owe to spaghetti. - Sophia Loren
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11. “Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone…Bad food is fake food…food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people’s ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives. - Anthony Bourdain
12. After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relatives. - Oscar Wilde
13. I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regretted most of them, but never the potatoes… - Norah Ephron
14. There is a lot of shitty ramen out there. - Dave Chang
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