Best 75+ Cooking Quotes to Celebrate Love For Food

Food is essential to life, from healthy breakfasts to delicious dinners and decadent desserts. You can express yourself and be creative when you cook. It is not just about feeding hunger but the art of cooking certainly has magic. This article will share the best cooking quotes to celebrate your love for food.

Cooking for someone we care about is more than just making delicious food for them. It is about making memories, laughing together, and tenderly expressing love. Perhaps you’ve heard that cooking for someone is a love language. Cooking together is also a great way to express your love for one another without really saying it.

Learn to love cooking more by reading and sharing these delicious food quotes on social media.

Humorous Cooking Quotes

This collection of funny quotes is meant to bring a bright smile to your face in the kitchen. Share these funny cuisine quotes filled with relatable truths that help us identify with each other and ourselves in how we connect with food.

A party without cake is just a meeting. — Julia Child

I don’t even butter my bread. I consider that cooking. —Katherine Cebrian

There is such a buildup of crud in my oven there is only room to bake a single cupcake. —Phyllis Diller

The two biggest sellers in any bookstore are the cookbooks and the diet books. The cookbooks tell you how to prepare the food, and the diet books tell you how not to eat any of it. —Andy Rooney

It’s so beautifully arranged on the plate—you know someone’s fingers have been all over it. —Julia Child commenting on nouvelle cuisine

When compelled to cook, I produce a meal that would make a sword swallower gag. —Russell Baker

Eating an artichoke is like getting to know someone really well. —Willi Hastings

When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking. —Gail Sheehy

Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar, and fat. —Alex Levine

In Mexico we have a word for sushi: bait. —Jose Simon

Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside. —Mark Twain (1835-1910)

I prefer Hostess® fruit pies to pop-up Pop-Tarts® because they don’t require so much cooking. —Carrie Snow

You know why the French hate us? They gave us the croissant. And you know what we did with it? We turned it into a croissandwich. —Denis Leary

The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you’re hungry again. —George Miller

My idea of Heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with. —Oprah Winfrey

Life is too short to stuff a mushroom. —Storm Jameson

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found. —Calvin Trillin

I prefer my oysters fried; that way I know my oysters died. —Roy G. Blount, Jr.

God sends meat and the devil sends cooks. —Thomas Deloney (1543-1600)

There is no sincerer love than the love of food. —George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate. — Julia Child

The most dangerous food is wedding cake. —American proverb

Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. —G. K. Chesterson (1874-1936)

Recipe For Chili: Put a pot of chili on the stove to simmer. Let it simmer. Meanwhile, broil a good steak. Eat the steak. Let the chili simmer. Ignore it. —Allan Shivers, former governor of Texas

Nachman’s Rule: When it comes to foreign food, the less authentic the better. —Gerald Nachman

Isn’t there any other part of the matzo you can eat? —Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962) after having eaten matzo ball soup three times in a row

No one is lonely while eating spaghetti. —Robert Morley

A louse in the cabbage is better than no meat at all. —Pennsylvania Dutch proverb

I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead—not sick, not wounded—dead. —Woody Allen

The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for the steak to cook. — Funny cooking quote by Julia Child

We didn’t starve, but we didn’t eat chicken unless we were sick, or the chicken was. —Bernard Malamud (1914-1986)

Where there’s smoke, there’s toast. —Anon

My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked. —Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water. —W. C. Fields (1880-1946)

Eggs! They’re not a food, they belong in no group! They’re just farts clothed in substance. —Dylan Moran

The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose. —Garrison Keillor

There’s no such thing as soy milk. It’s soy juice. —Lewis Black

I no longer prepare food or drink with more than one ingredient. —Cyra McFadden

I don’t eat snails. I prefer fast food. —Strange de Jim

Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands—and then eat just one of the pieces. —Judith Viorst

Inspirational Loving Cooking Quotes From Famous Chefs

Looking for inspiration to cook a new dish? Read these inspirational quotes from famous chefs to get encouraging words to make you fall in love with food again.

“I watch cooking change the cook, just as it transforms the food.” — Laura Esquivel

“Cooking and eating are a feast of colors, smells, and tastes.”  — Remez Sasson

“A restaurant is good when the cooking is better than your own.” ― Neel Burton

“Cooking is the art of adjustment.”  — Jacques Pepin

“One of the greatest pleasures of my life has been that I have never stopped learning about Good Cooking and Good Food.”  — Edna Lewis

“One of the most meditative times of my day is when I’m cooking.” — Gabrielle Bernstein

“Cooking is both simpler and more necessary than we imagine.” ― Tamar Adler

“All cooking is a matter of time. In general, the more time the better.” — John Erskine

“Cooking is about imbibing different cultures and putting them in a plate on the table.” — Johnny Iuzzini

One-Linears Cooking Quotes

Any kitchen can become the setting for a cooking comedy with a dash of joy and a pinch of humor. Now let us add some humor to that apron and laugh at these amusing one-liners about meal preparation that will make all chefs, from newbies to ratatouille experts, laugh.

Cooking is love made visible

The secret ingredient is always cheese

Happiness is homemade soup

Chop it like it’s hot

Life is short; lick the spoon

A messy kitchen is a sign of happiness

Whisk me away to flavor town

Where there’s a whisk, there’s a way

Eat well, laugh often, cook much

A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand

Keep calm and curry on

Stirring up trouble and tasty treats

Too many cooks? Impossible! 

Simmer down and taste the joy

Baking spirits bright with every bite

Friends don’t let friends use store-bought pasta 

A forkful of happiness in every dish

Never trust a skinny chef 

When in doubt, add more butter

Cooking with family, seasoned with love

Quotes About Cooking For Happy Family Moment

I think cooking with your family is the best way to spend the holiday. This weekend, plan to spend time in the kitchen creating memories with the people you love most. Add these quotes for happy family moments to your Instagram post captions.

“Marriage is survived just on the basis of ordinary etiquette, day in and day out. Also cooking together helps a lot.” — Jim Harrison

“For me, thats one of the important things about cooking. What was good enough yesterday may not be good enough today.” — Thomas Keller

“For me, cooking is very connected to my family and friends.” — Trisha Yearwood

“My Mom always cooked healthy. Greek food lends itself to cooking healthy.” — Cat Cora

“Cooking is great, love is grand, but soufflés fall and lovers come and go. But you can always depend on a book!” — Claudia Christian

“I can still enjoy the foods I like I just eat much smaller portions now. And of course Ive had to give up that southern style way of cooking.” — Della Reese

“I love cooking during Christmas, all smells like the hot apple cider, the hot spiced wine.” — Amy Smart

“I love food, all food, everything about food. I enjoy going to the market and having what’s in front of me – what’s fresh, seasonal – tell me what I’m cooking.” — Tyler Florence

“A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.” — Elsa Schiaparelli

“Summer cooking implies a sense of immediacy, a capacity to capture the essence of the fleeting moment.” — Elizabeth David