Quotes by James Beard

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

“Food has replaced sex in my life, now I cant even get into my own pants”

“I didnt fight my way to the top of the food chain to be a vegetarian”

“Three things are needed for a good life, good friends, good food, and good song.”

“If people take the trouble to cook, you should take the trouble to eat.”

“God comes to the hungry in the form of food.”

“I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead.”

“The only think I like better than talking about Food is eating.”

“Once you become an elaborate and well-developed culture, anything from Rome or the Etruscans, for that matter, the food starts to become a representation of what the culture is. When the food can transcend being just fuel, thats when you start to see these different permutations.”

“That would be cool if you could eat a good food with a bad food and the good food would cover for the bad food when it got to your stomach. Like you could eat a carrot with an onion ring and they would travel down to your stomach, then they would get there, and the carrot would say, Its cool, hes with me.”

“Experience is food for the brain.”

“Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups.”

“It is the food which you furnish to your mind that determines the whole character of your life”

“Im at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, Ive just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.”

“More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.”

“I just hate health food”

“I dont like gourmet cooking or this cooking or that cooking. I like good cooking.”

“I believe that if ever I had to practice cannibalism, I might manage if there were enough tarragon around.”

“Too few people understand a really good sandwich”

“Where would we be without salt?”