“The best comfort food will always be greens, cornbread, and fried chicken.”

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“Life is too short for self-hatred and celery sticks.”
- Marilyn Wann
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“The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love, and death.”
- E.M. Forster
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“Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity.”
- Jonathan Safran Foer
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“Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.”
- Saint Bernard
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“To me, food is as much about the moment, the occasion, the location and the company as it is about the taste.”
- Heston Blumenthal
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“Anyone who’s a chef, who loves food, ultimately knows that all that matters is: ‘Is it good? Does it give pleasure?’”
- Anthony Bourdain
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“One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.”
- Luciano Pavarotti
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“All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.”
- John Gunther
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“Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.”
- Harriet Van Horne
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“My doctor told me I had to stop throwing intimate dinners for four unless there are three other people.”
- Orson Welles
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“I realized very early the power of food to evoke memory, to bring people together, to transport you to other places, and I wanted to be a part of that.”
- José Andrés Puerta
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“You don’t need a silver fork to eat good food.”
- Paul Prudhomme
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"Never eat more than you can life.”
- Miss Piggy
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“Food can be very transformational, and it can be more than just about a dish. That’s what happened to me when I first went to France. I fell in love. And if you fall in love, well, then everything is easy.”
- Alice Waters
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“The best comfort food will always be greens, cornbread, and fried chicken.”
- Maya Angelou
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“If you really want to make a friend, go to someone’s house and eat with him… The people who give you their food give you their heart.”
- Cesar Chavez
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“I cook with wine. Sometimes I even add it to the food.”
- W.C. Fields
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“I know once people get connected to real food, they never change back.”
- Alice Waters
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“I watch cooking change the cook, just as it transforms the food.”
- Laura Esquivel
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“Food is symbolic of love when words are inadequate.”
- Alan D. Wolfelt
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“Food for us comes from our relatives, whether they have wings or fins or roots. That is how we consider food. Food has a culture. It has a history. It has a story. It has relationships.”
- Winona LaDuke
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“Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first.”
- Ernestine Ulmer
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“A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe.”
- Thomas Keller