Good word about food

Updated: November 8, 2021

Originally Published: Oct. 7, 2021

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Food nourishes us, delights us, and generally fuels our daily lives. In the era of social media, a gorgeously plated dish also makes for great content. However, coming up with something fun and exciting to say about that stunning 100 percent organic beet salad you just photographed for Instagram isn’t always easy. Sure, you could say it was yummy (accurate), but wouldn’t it be nice to break out some more interesting words to describe food the next time you upload a photo of your dinner to the ‘gram?

Expanding your vocabulary should be a life-long process. Words can be downright magical, which makes it all the more fun to discover new ones. Whether you’re helping a teen prep for their SAT, writing a short story, or just looking for new ways to spice up your social media captions, getting a crash course in descriptive words for food is a great place to start. Plus, learning the difference between apéritifs and a bouffage is sure to impress your foodie friends.

Fair warning: You might want to grab a snack before diving into this list of delectable food words, lest you get the borborygmus (stomach grumbles!). From unusual terms you may encounter on a menu at that fancy gastropub down the block to adjectives that will invoke just how happy those truffle fries really made you feel, we’ve got you covered. Ready to expand your food vocabulary and spice up your next food-centric post? Read on for a list of interesting, unusual, and downright delightful words you can use to describe the next meal you eat that’s so good it leaves you speechless.

Words to Describe Food Taste, Smell, or Texture

  1. Acidic — sour or sharp in taste
  2. Aromatic — having a distinctive smell
  3. Astringent — sharp in flavor
  4. Bitter — a sharp, sometimes unpleasant flavor
  5. Bittersweet — a pleasing mix of bitterness and sweetness
  6. Bland — lacking in flavor
  7. Brackish — a taste of salty water
  8. Buttery — having the taste of butter
  9. Creamy — smooth, rich texture, usually used to describe something that includes dairy
  10. Crumbly — the texture of food that crumbles
  11. Delicate — a light taste or texture
  12. Earthy — a flavor that reminds someone of fresh soil, usually applied to root vegetables and wine
  13. Fiery — a dish that packs a spicy punch
  14. Flaky — usually used to describe a pastry with many layers
  15. Gamy — having the wild taste of game meat
  16. Glazed — a sticky, flavorful coating
  17. Honeyed — reminiscent of honey
  18. Luscious — having a pleasant, rich taste
  19. Mealy — containing meal; soft, dry, and friable
  20. Mellow — a gentle, smooth flavor
  21. Nectarous — like nectar, the drink of the gods
  22. Pickled — a process that gives food a briny taste
  23. Pungent — unpleasantly strong in taste or smell
  24. Plummy — having the taste, smell, or flavor of a plum
  25. Saccharine — overly sweet
  26. Savory — food that’s salty or spicy, not sweet
  27. Silky — a smooth taste
  28. Tang — food with a tart taste
  29. Treacly — excessively sweet
  30. Zesty — having an invigorating flavor

Words Related to Food and Eating

  1. Amuse-Bouche — a small sample platter, literally translates to “amuse the mouth”
  2. Apéritifs — a savory dish, usually an appetizer
  3. Balthazar — an oversized wine bottle that holds about 16 times a normal bottle’s volume
  4. Banquet — a veritable feast
  5. Caramelized — food that is cooked slowly until it browns and becomes sweet in taste
  6. Compote — a chilled sauce
  7. Confection — a dish made with sweet ingredients
  8. Demerara — partially refined light brown cane sugar originally from Guyana
  9. Gremolata — a seasoning containing grated lemon zest, minced garlic, and minced parsley
  10. Grub — an informal word for food
  11. Gourmet — high-quality food
  12. Flavorsome — full of flavor
  13. Full-bodied — a rich flavor
  14. Hearty — robust, filling
  15. Marinated — food that has been soaked in a flavorful liquid
  16. Mirepoix — a mix of carrots, celery, onion, and herbs that seasons soups
  17. Roux — a mix of butter and flour that turns into a paste-like consistency and is generally the start of a sauce recipe
  18. Quidanny — a jelly or syrup made from fruit
  19. Tartare — finely chopped raw fish or meat
  20. Victuals — food or provisions

Beautiful and Descriptive Food Words

  1. Ambrosial — fragrant, savory, sweet; “fit for the gods”
  2. Bonne Bouche — a delicious mouthful
  3. Borborygmus — intestinal rumblings
  4. Bouffage — a grand banquet
  5. Chiffonade — to cut into thin strips
  6. Delectable — delicious
  7. Divine — food that’s so good it’s heavenly
  8. Dulcet — a British slang term for food
  9. Forenoons — a light snack or brunch eaten between breakfast and lunch
  10. Groak — to stare at people who are eating in the hope that they will offer to share their food
  11. Gustatory — relating to taste
  12. Gut-gullie — an old Scots dialect verb used to describe operating or eating greedily
  13. Haute Cuisine — fine dining
  14. Kickshaw — a fancy but insubstantial dish
  15. Linnard — the last member of the group to finish their meal
  16. Mouthwatering — food so good it makes you salivate
  17. Omakase — a Japanese term that translates to “I’ll leave it up to you,” meaning you’re turning your food choice over to the chef
  18. Orts — the small amount of food left at the end of a meal
  19. Piquant — a flavor that is stimulating to the palette
  20. Postprandial — occurring after a meal
  21. Rassasy — a 15th-century word meaning to satiate someone’s hunger with food
  22. Saporific — something that has the power to give you the sensation of taste
  23. Sapid — having a strong, but pleasant taste
  24. Scrumptious — delicious, yummy
  25. Sobremesa — a Spanish term for when the food is finished but the conversation is still flowing
  26. Speustic — a 17th-century word describing any meal or plate thrown together in haste
  27. Tarnisher — an old Scots and Irish dialect word for a huge meal
  28. Toothsome — tempting in taste
  29. Uitbuiken — a Dutch term that translates to “outbellying”; when you relax, satiated, between courses or after a meal
  30. Unctuous — oily

Trendy Food Words

  1. Aftertaste — a taste, typically an unpleasant one, remaining in the mouth after eating or drinking something
  2. Artisanal — produced in limited quantities by an artisan through the use of traditional methods
  3. Nosh — a British slang term for food
  4. Piehole — a slang term for mouth
  5. Scrummy — an informal way of saying scrumptious
  6. Sec — a term borrowed from the wine world, used to describe something dry or un-sweet
  7. Soused — food kept in vinegar or alcohol for a long time
  8. Succulent — juicy, tender food
  9. Umami — a savory taste
  10. Yule-hole — the hole on your belt buckle you have to move to after eating an enormous meal (usually around the holidays)

Food Adjectives That Start With S

  1. Saporous — a flavor that has an exciting or agreeable taste
  2. Satin — smooth
  3. Sauteed — food that is cooked quickly with high heat
  4. Savorless — lacking taste or bland
  5. Seared — food that is cooked at a high temperature until a brown crust is formed
  6. Sharp — tart or acidic taste
  7. Simmered — food that is cooked slowly at low temperature
  8. Sizzling — food that makes a hissing sound while it’s cooking

This article was originally published on Oct. 7, 2021

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25 Delicious Phrases for Talking About Food in English

Oh, no—I opened Instagram before lunch again.

Big mistake.

All my friends’ pictures of giant sandwiches, colorful soups and chocolate chip cookies are seriously making me hungry.

I should’ve known! Food is one of the biggest topics of conversation online and offline.

If you want to participate in these conversations in English, you’ll need many different descriptive English phrases and words for food and how it tastes.

That’s exactly what’s on the menu today.

We’ll give you 25 ways to talk about food in English, so you can feel comfortable at restaurants, dinner parties or commenting on your friend’s latest Instagram food post.


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Why Are Food Phrases Important for English Learners?

I’ll answer that question with another question: why are people always talking about food?

The answer is easy. Food is universal. Everybody has to eat! It’s as simple as that. So people want to find tasty, healthy food, the best places to eat, etc. It’s no wonder that everybody’s talking about food.

In fact, The Daily Meal even claims that just talking about food might make you healthier. What do you think?

In The Huffington Post, award-winning chef Marcus Samuelsson talks about how food cuts across cultures. Every culture in every country has its own cuisine (style of cooking) and this is what makes travel so fascinating.

You not only get to enjoy the sights and sounds, but you also know there are always new and exciting food adventures waiting for you.

Food is, of course, a great way to meet people and make friends. When people share a meal, you can be sure the discussions about food, restaurants and recipes are going to be endless.

S0 what does this all mean for English learners?

Food is an important topic of conversation to master. With a healthy food vocabulary, you’ll not only have valuable conversations with native English speakers, but you’ll also explore their culture through cuisine.

For another top introduction to food vocabulary and all the delicious ways to talk about food, check out the video below!

You’ll learn all about food descriptions, ordering food and heaps of useful native phrases.

The video is from the FluentU YouTube channel, specially created to help you learn English the way it’s used by native speakers.

For more top content and exciting videos, subscribe to the FluentU English YouTube channel and hit the notification bell.

25 Words and Phrases to Add to Your Food Vocabulary

So are you ready to jump into the conversation? Even if you’re not quite ready yet, I promise you will be after you learn the food words and phrases I’ve got here for you today.

The best way to start learning these words is to hear them in authentic English contexts with FluentU.

Each video comes with interactive captions, flashcards and exercises to help you actively build your vocabulary while absorbing native English speech.

FluentU organizes the videos by difficulty and genre, so it’s easy to find something that you’re interested in and matches your English level. Check out the free trial to start devouring cooking videos, cake decorating videos and food market commercials—among many other types of videos!

How’s It Taste?

Beyond “Delicious”

Ever notice how the word delicious is frequently used to describe food? Using this word too often can become boring. So let’s find some other ways to say delicious, shall we?

1. Tastes great!

Eating something delicious right now? Use this expression to say so.

I’m so glad I ordered this pizza—it tastes great!

2. Really good!

Here’s something else you could say instead of delicious.

Have you tried the chocolate cake? It’s really good!

3. Wow, [this food] is amazing!

If something tastes better than you expected, you could use the word wow to express your surprise. If you say something tastes amazing, you’re saying it tastes even better than great or really good.

Wow, this pasta salad is amazing!

4. Yummy

This is an informal way of saying something tastes good. If you find something to be delicious, you could simply say “Yummy!” or you could expand it into a sentence.

This cheesecake is really yummy. I’m going for another slice.

5. Flavorful

This is a great adjective for describing food that’s full of flavor or that has a delicious quality in its taste and smell.

I love how flavorful this soup is with all the fresh herbs and vegetables in it.

6. Mouth-watering

This is the perfect adjective to describe something that’s so delicious and flavorful, it’s actually making your mouth water.

His mom makes such mouth-watering cakes that I just can’t wait to go over to his house tonight.

Avoiding “Yuck”

There may be times when you don’t really like the taste of a certain food. But you probably can’t just shout “Yuck!” (an informal English word meaning something tastes or smells bad) without offending the cook or your hosts.

So how can you express that without sounding impolite?

7. This [food] is too [flavor] for me/for my taste.

This is a polite way to explain that you don’t like the food, without blaming the cook. It’s just not right for you.

Better yet if you can throw in a compliment first!

This cake is so moist! It’s just too sweet for my taste.

8. It could use a little more/less…

Use this expression to say that you’d like the food better if the flavors were different.

This chicken is too spicy. It could use a little less chili sauce.

9. This tastes different. I think I prefer [something else].

If something tastes new or unfamiliar, you could politely name some other food that you’d prefer or like better.

This tiramisu tastes different. I think I prefer the chocolate cake.

What’s Your Diet?

10. Vegetarian

If you’re a vegetarian, your diet would include only vegetables, fruits and non-meat items such as tofu, nuts, etc.

I’ve been a vegetarian for a year and I don’t even miss eating meat at all.

11. Trying to lose weight

If you’re trying to lose weight, it means you’re trying to become thinner.

I usually just have a salad for lunch because I’m trying to lose weight.

12. Low-carb diet

The word carb is short for carbohydrate. A low-carb diet involves eating less carbohydrate-rich foods such as bread, pancakes and cookies.

That strawberry muffin looks tempting, but I’m on a low-carb diet.

13. A balanced diet

Most people simply try to keep a balanced diet, which includes eating from each of the main food groups like grains, vegetables, fruits, dairy and meat.

To stay healthy, I go to the gym, cycle to work and eat a balanced diet.

What Do You Usually Eat?

This is one of the most common questions that people ask one another and it’s always interesting to hear everyone’s answers.

14. Fast food

Fast food is served very quickly over the counter at restaurants such as McDonald’s or Chick-fil-A. It’s usually a meal with hamburgers or sandwiches, French fries and soda.

When I’m busy with school, I usually end up eating fast food.

15. Home-cooked meal

A home-cooked meal is what many of us would like to have waiting for us when we get home from school or work. This is a fresh meal that’s made and eaten at home.

Whenever I get home early from work, I make myself a nice home-cooked meal.

16. One-pot meal

A one-pot meal means exactly what it says. You cook all of your ingredients (food items) like meat and vegetables in one pot and you’re ready to eat.

If I’m too tired to cook, I just make a quick and easy one-pot meal.

17. Dessert

Dessert is a sweet dish, like pastry or ice cream, that’s served and eaten at the end of a meal.

My grandma makes amazing cookies, cakes and pies. I always look forward to dessert when I go to her house.

18. To have a sweet tooth

Do you enjoy eating sweet food very much? Well then, you must have a sweet tooth for sure.

I’ll admit I have a sweet tooth because I can never say no to cakes, pastries and ice cream.

19. To eat healthy

Here’s an easy one. To eat healthy simply means choosing to eat food that’s good for your health.

No matter how busy I am, I try to eat healthy and exercise every day.

How Do You Like Your Chicken?

20. Fried or deep-fried

Fried chicken is made by cooking the meat in hot oil. Often the fried chicken we get at restaurants is actually deep-fried.

So what’s the difference between frying and deep-frying? Well, deep-frying uses a lot more oil than frying. Most times, people just say fried chicken when referring to deep-fried chicken because the word is shorter and easier to say.

I can’t think of anything I like better than fried chicken, can you?

21. Grilled

Grilled chicken is made by cooking the meat directly on a heated grill.

I think I’ll invite my friends over for some grilled chicken this weekend.

22. Crunchy

If you deep-fry your chicken well, it’ll be crunchy, which means it’ll make a crunching, cracking sound when you bite and chew on it.

That fried chicken I had for lunch was so crunchy and yummy I just can’t stop thinking about it.

How Do You Like Your Eggs?

23. Scrambled

Scrambled eggs are made by stirring and mixing them together while cooking.

I usually make scrambled eggs for breakfast because they’re so easy.

24. Poached

Poached eggs are made by partially cooking the egg in simmering water. When it’s served, the egg whites will be soft and you’ll be able to see the whole yolk.

I’ve never had a poached egg but I’d sure like to try it.

25. Sunny-side up

Sunny-side up refers to an egg that’s been fried on only one side. Its name comes from the fact that the yolk sits whole in the middle of the fried egg, making it look like the sun.

The only way my son will eat eggs is if I make them sunny-side up. He likes to see the yellow yolk!

On that sunny note, I hope you’ve learned some useful vocabulary here today that’ll boost your confidence before jumping into any discussion about food. Remember, the more you practice, the more natural you’ll sound. Happy learning and good luck!


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Everyone loves food. Looking at it. Smelling it. Taking pictures of it. Making it. Eating it. Posting it on Instagram and Pinterest. And of course, talking about it!

Enjoy these food quotes that remind us that life is short, so eat great food. My personal favorite is the funny and famous quote from Julia Child about butter and cream!

These sweet, simple, and inspirational thoughts are perfect for sharing with friends, family, and the ones you love.

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This list of funny and thoughtful food quotes is really the best and provides some good food for thought for all types of thinkers.

From healthy food sayings to famous food quotes, any foodie is sure to find something enjoyable here.

Food Quote Graphics For Instagram and Pinterest

The short food quotes in the list below are great for social media. We’ve included some eye-catching images for you to use.

They’re perfect for sharing on Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest or your website. If you decide to share, please credit Three Snackateers with a tag or link. Thanks!


FOOD FOR THOUGHT: FOODIE QUOTES THAT WILL GET YOU THINKING

Ever read a quote and realize how connected you felt to it? These foodie quotes will definitely have you thinking about things differently, and they are just nice to read!

“Sometimes me think, ‘What is Friend?’ and then me say, ‘Friend is someone to share the last cookie with.’”
–Cookie Monster

Like cookie monster? You’ll love this fun blue cookie monster ice cream!

60 Food Quotes That Will Get You Thinking ... and Hungry!

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
– J.R.R. Tolkien

Food For Thought Quotes

“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relatives.”
– Oscar Wilde

Food For Thought Quotes

“A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring the soul to the recipe.”
– Thomas Keller

Food For Thought Quotes

“Laughter is brightest in the place where food is.”
– Irish Proverb

Food For Thought Quotes

“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

“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

“Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.”
– Oscar Wilde

Food For Thought Quotes

“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

“The way you make an omelet reveals your character.”
– Anthony Bourdain

Food For Thought Quotes

“Life is a combination of magic and pasta.”
– Federico Fellini 

Food For Thought Quotes

“If you really want to make a friend, go to someone’s house and eat… The people who give you their food give you their heart.”
– Cesar Chavez

Food For Thought Quotes

“A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.”
– Aesop

Food For Thought Quotes


FUNNY FOOD AND SNACK QUOTES

These hilarious quotes about snacking are sure to make you laugh out loud. Snack quotes are super funny and a great way to connect with those you love over food.

“Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first.”
– Ernestine Ulmer

Ten Food Quotes That Will Get You Thinking ... and Hungry!

“I’ve long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk. Whether we’re talking about unpasteurized Stilton, raw oysters or working for organized crime associates, food, for me, has always been an adventure.”
– Anthony Bourdaine

“Tell me what to eat, and I will tell you what you are.”
– Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
(I’d love to hear what he would have said about us after looking at our Instagram feed!)

Funny Food Quotes

“Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.”
– Jim Davis

“Popcorn for breakfast! Why not? It’s a grain. It’s like, like, grits, but with high self-esteem.”
James Patterson

Ten Food Quotes That Will Get You Thinking ... and Hungry!

“Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.”
– Orson Welles

Funny Food Quotes

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

Funny Food Quotes

“The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for the steak to cook.”
– Julia Child

Funny Food Quotes

“My doctor told me I had to stop throwing intimate dinners for four unless there are three other people.”
– Orson Welles

“Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the Titanic who waved off the dessert cart.”
– Erma Bombeck

“Life is too short for self-hatred and celery sticks.”
– Marilyn Wann

Funny Food Quotes

“Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.”
– Mark Twain

“I’m pretty sure that eating chocolate keeps wrinkles away because I have never seen a 10-year-old with a Hershey bar and crows feet.”
– Amy Neftzger

“Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.”
– Sophia Loren

Funny Food Quotes

“A party without cake is just a meeting.”
– Julia Child

Funny Food Quotes

“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
– Virginia Woolf

“If soup isn’t hot enough to make a grown man wince, it’s undrinkable.”
– Terri Guillemets

“There’s not a better feeling in the world than a warm pizza on your lap.”
– Kevin James

Funny Food Quotes

“Ice cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.”
– Voltaire

Funny Food Quotes

“Winter blues are cured every time with a potato gratin paired with a roast chicken.”
– Alex Guarnaschelli 

“He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.”
– Jonathan Swift

Funny Food Quotes

“You can tell a lot about a fellow’s character by his way of eating jellybeans.”
– Ronald Reagan

Funny Food Quotes

“I suppose there are people who can pass up free guacamole, but they’re either allergic to avocado or too joyless to live.”
– Frank Bruni

“It’s okay to eat fish because they don’t have any feelings.”
– Kurt Cobain

Funny Food Quotes


HEALTHY FOOD QUOTES

These healthy food quotes are so good to share with anyone. You are going to love some of these cute food quotes.

“A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.”
– Barbara Johnson

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“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.”
– Hippocrates

“We all eat, and it would be a sad waste of opportunity to eat badly.”
– Anna Thomas

“You don’t need a silver fork to eat good food.”
– Paul Prudhomm

“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relatives.”
– Oscar Wilde

Ten Food Quotes That Will Get You Thinking ... and Hungry!

“The belly rules the mind.”
– Spanish Proverb

“Health food may be good for the conscience, but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.”
– Robert Redford


FAMOUS FOOD QUOTES

These delicious food quotes are notoriously famous in all kinds of ways. Some are motivational food quotes, while others are just for fun!

“If you’re afraid of butter, use cream.”
– Julia Child

Ten Food Quotes That Will Get You Thinking ... and Hungry!

“The secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.”
– Mark Twain

Ten Food Quotes That Will Get You Thinking ... and Hungry!

“If you can’t feed a hundred people, then just feed one.”
– Mother Teresa

“You can’t just eat good food. You’ve got to talk about it too. And you’ve got to talk about it to somebody who understands that kind of food.”
– Kurt Vonnegut

Ten Food Quotes That Will Get You Thinking ... and Hungry!

“Large, naked, raw carrots are acceptable as food only to those who live in hutches eagerly awaiting Easter.”
– Fran Lebowitz

“My mama always said, “Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.”
– Forrest Gump

“We elves try to stick to the four main food groups: candy, candy canes, candy corns and syrup.”
– “Buddy” in Elf

“An onion can make people cry but there’s never been a vegetable that can make people laugh.”
– Will Rogers

“My idea of fast food is a mallard.”
– Ted Nugent


GOOD FOOD QUOTES

These quotes about food are incredibly good and will make quite the impression. Whether it is about baking or snacking, there is a quote for almost every occasion.

“Never eat more than you can lift.”
– Miss Piggy

Ten Food Quotes That Will Get You Thinking ... and Hungry!

“Anyone who’s a chef, who loves food, ultimately knows that all that matters is: ‘Is it good? Does it give you pleasure?”
– Anthony Bourdain

Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving, and identity.”
– Jonathan Sofran Foer

“Food is our common ground, a universal experience.”
– James Beard

Good Food Quotes

“Food brings people together on many different levels. It’s nourishment of the soul and body; it’s truly love.”
Giada De Laurentiis

“The only thing I like better than talking about food is eating.”
– John Walters

Good Food Quotes

“I am not a glutton – I am an explorer of food.”
– Erma Bombeck

“First we eat, then we do everything else.”
– M.F.K. Fisher

Good Food Quotes

“At home I serve the kind of food I know the story behind.”
– Michael Pollan

“Food may be essential as fuel for the body, but good food is fuel for the soul.”
– Malcom Forbes

Good Food Quotes

“Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness.”
– Auguste Escoffier

“Bad bread wrecks my outlook on life.”
– Jeffrey Steingarten

Good Food Quotes

“Eat, as nobody is watching. Enjoy food like that’s the only thing left in your world.”
– Nikita Dudani

“You can be miserable before you have a cookie and you can be miserable after you eat a cookie but you can’t be miserable while you are eating a cookie.”
– Ina Garten

“Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake.”
– Dean Koontz

Good Food Quotes

“There’s nothing better than cake but more cake.”
– Harry S. Truman


FOOD LOVE QUOTES

Food and love go hand in hand. You’ll want to share these catchy food quotes about love with someone special. Be sure to check out our other quote lists about pizza and wine.

“Food is symbolic of love when words are inadequate.”
– Alan D. Wolfet

Food Quotes That Will Get You Thinking ... and Hungry!

“There is no love sincerer than the love of food.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“One cannot think well, love well and sleep well unless one has dined well.” 
– Virginia Woolf

“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.”
– Charles M. Schulz

Food Love Quotes

“Cooking is like love, it should be entered into with abandon, or not at all.”
– Harriet Vorne Horne

“Well, foods always the way to anybody’s heart, I think, guy or girl.”
– Josh Hutcherson

“All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.”
– John Gunther

Food Love Quotes

“My love for you is pizza shaped. Won’t you have a slice? It’s circular, so there’s enough to go around.”
– Dora J. Arod

Food Quotes For Instagram

Need a food quote of the day for your Instagram? Try one of these funny quotes for food lovers!

  • Ah, my butter half!
  • Cake is my happy place.
  • Diet starts tomorrow.
  • Find someone who looks at you the way I look at my dessert.
  • Fitness, you say? More like fit this cake in my mouth!
  • I run because I really like cake.
  • I’ve never met a dessert I didn’t like.
  • It’s dessert o’clock somewhere.
  • Live. Love. Eat.
  • Slice, slice, baby!
  • Stressed spelled backward is desserts.
  • Eat, drink, and be merry.
  • You can’t buy happiness. But you can buy pizza, and that’s kind of the same thing.
  • Keep calm and order pizza.
  • Good food, good mood.
  • #foodgoals
  • Food is always a good idea.
  • In the mood for food.
  • Count the memories, not the calories.
  • Grill and chill.
  • Exercise? I thought you said extra fries!

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English Proverb
Russian Equivalent
The appetite comes with eating.  Аппетит приходит во время еды.
Tastes differ.  О вкусах не спорят. Вкусы различаются.
Hunger finds no fault with cookery.  Голод стряпню не критикует.
Even sugar itself may spoil a good dish.  Даже сахаром можно испортить вкусное блюдо.
Eat with pleasure, drink with measure.  Ешь вволю, а пей в меру.
Live not to eat, but eat to live.  Живи не для того, чтобы есть, а ешь для того, чтобы жить.
Salt cooks bear blame, but fresh bear shame. За пересол поваров ругают, за недосол — стыдят.
You cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs. Невозможно сделать омлет, не разбив яиц.
A hungry belly has no ears . У голодного живота нет ушей.
The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach. Путь к сердцу мужчины лежит через его желудок.
Too much pudding will choke the dog. От слишком большого куска пудинга собака подавится.
Gluttony kills more men than the sword. От обжорства погибает больше людей, чем от меча.
One cannot blow and swallow at the same time. Нельзя дуть и глотать в одно и то же время.
Every man to his taste. У всякого свой вкус.
Half a loaf is better than no bread. Лучше уж половина буханки, чем полное отсутствие хлеба.
Never fry a fish till it’s caught.  Не жарь непойманной рыбы. 
No friendship is strong that owes its rise to a pot. Недолго длится дружба, которая возникла за обеденным столом.
“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.” Oscar Wilde  «После хорошего обеда можно простить любому даже его отношения». Оскар Уайльд
“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”  Virginia Woolf «Ты не можешь нормально думать, любить, спать, если ты хорошо не пообедал». Вирджиния Вульф
“There is no love sincerer than the love of food.”  George Bernard Shaw «Самая первая и ранняя любовь — это любовь к еде». Джордж Бернард Шоу

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You would not find a person on this planet who is not a foodie. Almost all of us have an overt or covert foodie inside us. This is why the world is becoming more and more prone to foods of all kinds. Be it fast food or fine dining, we have started eating food of different ethnicity now.

Almost all of the world’s ethnic food is now available everywhere, in every major city of each country. You don’t have to live in Italy to enjoy Italian food anymore. We are sharing the best food quotes for you and your friends to tease your tastebuds.

Trust us, you are going to get hungry after reading these.

Food Quotes Every Foodie Should Live By

  1. Hard work should be rewarded by good food. –Ken Follett
  2. I just don’t want to look back and think, I could’ve eaten that.
  3. The food you eat can be either the safest and most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison. –Ann Wigmore
  4. Part of the secret to success in life is to eat what you like.
  5. There is no sincere love than the love of food. –George Bernard Shaw
  6. People who love to eat are always the best people. –Julia Child
  7. Food is not just eating energy. It’s an experience.
  8. Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness.
  9. The only thing I like better than talking about food is eating. –John Walters
  10. If you keep good food in your fridge, you will eat good food.
  11. If you expect your life to be smooth always without any ups and downs, just imagine your biryani as plain white rice. Because all the ups and downs are like spices that make the biryani worth drooling. –Priscilla Sadanand
  12. I’m a girl who is ‘moody’ as well as ‘foodie.’ So handle with the care my mood swings as well as my food swings.

Food should be the most crucial thing you should think seriously about. But sadly, it is the least we think of in terms of its significance on our health and just eats without giving a second thought. This is why a lot of people complain of digesting related problems and other diseases of our stomachs.

These quotes shed light on how should you eat and what consuming unhealthy food does to your body. Simply put, what you eat does not reflect your preferences rather your whole lifestyle.

Good Food Quotes to Brighten Your Day

  1. There is nothing more romantic than delicious food.
  2. Cooking is all about people. Food is maybe the only universal thing that really has the power to bring everyone together. No matter what culture, everywhere around the world, people eat together. –Guy Fieri
  3. One cannot think well, love well, sleep well if one has not dined well.
  4. Food brings people together on many different levels. It’s the nourishment of the soul and body: it’s truly love. –Giada De Laurentiis.
  5. Your diet is a bank account. Good food choices are good investments. –Bethenny Frankel
  6. Food may be essential as fuel for the body, but good food is fuel for the soul. –Malcolm Forbes
  7. Laughter is brightest where food is best. –Irish Proverb
  8. Food is art and science. So, you take something out, you have to work with the recipe to make sure that you’re providing delicious food with cleaner labels.
  9. Tasty food and good things are always complex to prepare but give more happiness afterward, so be in patience, and just do your job. –SumithRawal
  10. You don’t need a silver fork to eat good food. –Paul Prudhomme

With the swiftly growing fast food and junk food culture and sharing what you eat on social media, what’s everyone forgetting is why we basically eat food. Do we eat food to only satisfy and feed our tastebuds? Or is there a higher purpose of eating food like staying healthy and detoxicated so you could perform your everyday duties more diligently?

Our collection of good food quotes above will highlight what actually is good food and do people need to move to healthy food. Take your body as a bank account. You will only be able to withdraw what you invested in. So if you want to live long and healthy, invest wisely.

Funny Food Quotes That Will Get You Thinking … and Hungry

  1. To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art. –Francois De La Rochefoucauld
  2. A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.
  3. Any pizza is a personal pizza if you believe in yourself.
  4. I won’t be impressed with technology until I am able to download snacks from the internet.
  5. I like hashtags because they look like waffles.
  6. The older you get, the better you get unless you’re a banana. –Betty White
  7. Pasta doesn’t make you fat. How much pasta you eat makes you fat. –Giada De Laurentiis
  8. Sometimes I think, “What is Friend?” And then I say, “Friend is someone to share the last cookie with.”
  9. I’m sorry for what I said when I was hungry.
  10. Ways to my heart: Buy me food, make me food, and be food.
  11. When people ask me what is more important, food or love, I don’t answer because I’m eating.
  12. How about we take this to the bedroom… I whispered to my snacks.
  13. I’m on a seafood diet. I see food, and I eat it.
  14. I’m just a girl, standing in front of a salad, asking it to be a donut.

You’d find a lot of people lecturing you about what you should eat and what impact it has on your body. Even if you badly need counseling on it, constantly getting schooled can make you bore and dull. This is why you always need funny food quotes to help you out in the least worrisome way.

You can use them on your doctor too to annoy him more lightly. Also, sending these quotes to your friends or using them as your Facebook caption can make you look cool. Remember, your joke can bring a smile to someone’s face today. How else could you contribute to this world?

Healthy Food Quotes Everybody Will Relate To

  1. Food is fuel. Eat to live! Don’t live to eat.
  2. The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition. –Thomas Edison
  3. Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper. –Adelle Davis
  4. It’s easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet. –Margaret Mead
  5. Instead of seeing organic food as an expense, view it as an investment in your health and a donation towards a safer and better world.
  6. I love fresh fruit and vegetables. I’m not a strict dieter. I don’t think that anything in life should be so regimented that you’re not having fun or can’t enjoy it like everybody else. Just know that fresh food is always going to be better for you. –Carrie Ann Inaba
  7. When diet is wrong, medicine is of no use. When diet is correct, medicine is of no need.
  8. You are what you eat, so don’t be fast, cheap, easy, or fake!
  9. Eating healthy, clean, and nutrient-rich food fills your body with energy, nutrients, and antioxidants. Imagine your cells smiling back at you, saying thanks.

You may have heard this quote quite a lot by now that an apple a day keeps the doctor away. Why do you think they say this? What do you believe is the analogy between an apple and a doctor for? It’s okay, you don’t need to feel like the examination hall right now. Let us help you with this.

Since Apple is one of the healthiest fruits having lots of fiber in it, keeps you away from almost all the diseases. So you don’t need to see the doctor ever again if you intake one Apple every day. This is how crucial healthy food is to our lives.

Food Sayings from Famous Chefs

  1. The kitchen is a country in which there are always discoveries to be made. –Grimod de La Reyniere
  2. I maintain standards, and I strive for perfection. That level of pressure is conveyed in a very bullish way, and that’s what cooking is all about. –Gordon Ramsay
  3. Cooking is about passion, so it may look slightly temperamental in a way that it’s too assertive to the naked eye. –Gordon Ramsay
  4. A recipe has no soul. You, as the cook, must bring soul to the recipe. –Thomas Keller
  5. When we eat together, when we set out to do so deliberately, life is better, no matter what your circumstances. –Thomas Keller
  6. But once in a while, you might see me at in and out burger; they make the best fast food Hamburgers around. –Thomas Keller
  7. Desserts are like mistresses. They are bad for you. So if you are having one, you might as well have two. –Alain Ducasse
  8. I only get fat when I eat food cooked by other chefs. At home, my wife does all the cooking. She makes simple things like soups and salads. We both like steamed tofu. –Alain Ducasse
  9. Real food doesn’t have ingredients; real food is ingredients. –Jamie Oliver
  10. If you can eat with mates or friends or family, I mean, it’s such a brilliant thing, isn’t it? If you feel really rubbish and you have a nice bit of food it makes you feel good, you know? –Jamie Oliver

A lot of people believe that we should try the recipe as we hear it from any chef. But take a look at what the chefs around the world have to say about this. For them, you can bring the soul to any recipe in the world. This means you can try the recipe in your way.

Moreover, you can get tips on cooking and food from these quotes too.

Food Captions Ready to Share on Instagram

  1. Good food is a good mood.
  2. Everything is fine if it is made of chocolate.
  3. When you eat food with your family and friends, it always tastes better!
  4. I love pizza. I want to marry it, but it would just be to eat her family at the wedding.
  5. I just want someone to look at me the way I look at food.
  6. Eating spaghetti requires so much attention. That’s why you can never feel lonely while eating it.
  7. Despite what psychologists will say, it’s completely fine to replace love with food.
  8. After a good dinner, you can forgive someone, even your family members. –Oscar Wilde
  9. I lost some weight once, but I found it again in the fridge.
  10. I need social distancing from my refrigerator.
  11. Is it just me, or does this meal look more scrumptious because I’m on a diet?

Even though we don’t appreciate and encourage the fast-growing trend of sharing what you are eating on social media, we have picked out the best food quotes you can use as your caption. Don’t get us wrong, but the kind of captions some people use over their food is totally irrelevant and doesn’t intrigue the readers.

You should have a caption having more potential to lure a reader than does your food. Isn’t it the sole purpose of sharing the captions anyway?

Delicious Food Quotes to Satiate Your Soul

  1. I do not like broccoli. And I haven’t liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I’m President of the United States, and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli. –George Bush
  2. Vegan food is soul food in its truest form. Soul food means to feed the soul. And to me, your soul is your intent. If your intent is pure, you are pure. –Erykah Badu
  3. As the dry thirsts for water, the starving hunger for food, and lungs demand air to breathe, the one thing a soul truly craves is freedom.
  4. Food is symbolic of love when words are inadequate.
  5. I get way too much happiness from good food. –Elizabeth Oliver
  6. I have an enormous fondness for delicious food. It’s very comforting.
  7. Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all. –Harriet van Horne

We are sure you have already started drooling after reading these delicious food quotes. We have picked these quotes for you from famous personalities to unknown individuals. But there’s one thing you’d find common in thing and that is their love for food.

There are a lot of traditional sayings about food in various cultures but there’s one that we love the most. It goes something like if you want to win someone’s heart, cook them delicious food with your own hands. Don’t get them tailor-made food from any restaurants but prepare everything yourself and you will have them.

Street Food Quotes You Would Like to Know

  1. If you wanna eat the best, visit a famous restaurant. If you wanna beat the best, visit a street food. –Prashu
  2. Happiness has to be about ‘eating spicy street foods with friends.’
  3. You know, when you say ‘street food’ to an American, maybe it sounds like they are actually eating off the street. –Greg Drescher
  4. Street foods: A spicy beat travel via ears, nose, and tongue to quench our stomach. –Devisri Eswaran
  5. Street food, I believe, is the salvation of the human race. –Anthony Bourdain
  6. There is so much more vegetable use in Thailand, India, and China than meat. Yes, when you go to the markets or buy street food, you see shrimp or chicken- but mostly vegetables.
  7. I think of[street food] as the antidote to fast food; it’s a clear alternative to the king, the clown, and the colonel. –Anthony Bourdain

You will get many people in your life who’d speak derogatorily of the street food like it’s not of great quality and bad tasting food. But the truth is quite the opposite. A lot of times the street food can taste way more delicious and healthier than what a five-star restaurant would offer on its menu.

Street food doesn’t need to be unhealthy. After all, it’s cheaper just as we cannot proclaim that fancy restaurants’ food is always healthy because it is expensive. So next time before you go to street food, read our quotes and feel confident and proud of your preferences. Also, you can share one of these quotes you think needs a perspective shift.

Conclusion

We hope you got to learn a lot about food through this blog and had a chance to unlearn your past experiences and stereotypes, if you had any, too. This is all we wish for through our blog. To break stereotypes and share knowledge for the growth of a common man’s intellect.

We believe, together we can learn from the experiences and exposure of great people and this is why we share quotes on multiple topics with you. Absorbing them will alter your life altogether making you a brand-new person. Enjoy your next meal while we are busy preparing new blogs for you because we are sure this article made you starve!

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