Travel would not be nearly as interesting as it is without the food aspect. Traveling to new places and new cultures not only provides the opportunity to try out endless new types of food, but also to experience new cultural habits around what eating is and what it means. Here are some inspiring quotes about food.

1. “There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

2. “Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.”
― Erma Bombeck

3. “There is no love sincerer than the love of food.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

4. “I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.”
― W.C. Fields

5. “Humor keeps us alive. Humor and food. Don’t forget food. You can go a week without laughing.”
― Joss Whedon

6. “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.”
― Hippocrates

7. “We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.”
― David Mamet, Boston Marriage

8. “The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you’ve got to have a what-the-hell attitude.”
― Julia Child

9. “Don’t wreck a sublime chocolate experience by feeling guilty.
Chocolate isn’t like premarital sex. It will not make you pregnant.
And it always feels good.”
― Lora Brody

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

11. “As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

12. “My love is pizza shaped. Won’t you have a slice? It’s circular, so there’s enough to go around.
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― Dora J. Arod, Love quotes for the ages. And the ageless sages.

13. “He showed the words “chocolate cake” to a group of Americans and recorded their word associations. “Guilt” was the top response. If that strikes you as unexceptional, consider the response of French eaters to the same prompt: “celebration.”
― Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto

14. “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, Jailbird

15. “You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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