Quotes of Gastronome - somelinesforyou

“ I am not a glutton — I am an explorer of food. ”

- Erma Bombeck

“ I don't like gourmet cooking or "this" cooking or "that" cooking. I like good cooking. ”

- James Beard

“ The Galloping Gourmet isn't a zombie, just really really English. ”

- Unknown

“ A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who "lives well.". ”

- Elbert Hubbard

“ One should eat to live, not live to eat. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ One meal a day is enough for a lion, and it ought to be for a man. ”

- George Fordyce

“ Their kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their altar, and their belly their god. ”

- Charles Buck

“ Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment. ”

- Madonna

“ The pleasures of the palate deal with us like the Egyptian thieves, who strangle those whom they embrace. ”

- Seneca
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