Best Food Critic Quotes & Sayings

I am not a food critic. Or a chef. Or even a professional writer. What I am schooled in the art of, however, is enjoying myself. — Jewel Staite

Food critic and writer Waverley Root described the common American near beer as "such a wishy-washy, thin, ill-tasting, discouraging sort of slop that it might have been dreamed up by a Puritan Machiavelli with the intent of disgusting drinkers with genuine beer forever."[21] — Waverly Root

At the end of the day, it seems like there's a critic archetype for food movies, like with 'Ratatouille' or anything. You know, if you were doing a puppet show about chefs, one puppet would be the chef, one would be the critic. — Jon Favreau

You can be a decent critic if you know about food, but to be a really good one, you need to know about life. — Ruth Reichl

An unintentional life accepts everything and does nothing. An intentional life embraces only the things that will add to the mission of significance. — John C. Maxwell

The great Baseball Hall-of-Famer Tom Seaver put it perfectly: In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted; if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end. — Jeff Olson

More voices means less trust in any given voice. — Eli Pariser

If you are your worst critic, don't be angry if others try to claim the title. — Faydra D. Fields

I'm not a food critic, and I'm not really an authority to write anything on food. — Alex Kapranos

Don't answer every critic. Sometimes, the answers you give may be right but misconceived and misunderstood. — Israelmore Ayivor

Leaders learn more from blames than praises. Praises make them know what's already done well; blames show them what's yet to be done well. — Israelmore Ayivor

We have been conditioned, taught, and coerced by the agents of our culture (parents, grandparents, advertisers, food critic, etc.) to eat the flesh and drink the milk of other animals. Because of this conditioning, which has occurred over a long period of time (thousands of years), we have developed addictive eating habits and blinded ourselves to the facts of our biological system and its true needs. — Sharon Gannon

What if ... what if ...
"What if it's a harvest camp after all?" says Emby. Connor doesn't tell him to shut up this time, because he's thinking the same thing.
It's Diego who answers him. "If it is, then I want my fin gers to go to a sculptor. So he can use them to craft something that will last forever."
They all think about that. Hayden is the next to speak.
"If I'm unwound," says Hayden, "I want my eyes to go to a photographer - one who shoots supermodels. That's what I want these eyes to see."
"My lips'll go to a rock star," says Connor.
"These legs are definitely going to the Olympics."
"My ears to an orchestra conductor."
"My stomach to a food critic."
"My biceps to a body builder."
"I wouldn't wish my sinuses on anybody."
And they're all laughing as the plane touches down. — Neal Shusterman

When you're fired, you're rejected. It's as simple as that. — Harvey MacKay

So for a long time, I did a lot of freelance writing in addition to writing fiction and such - I was a food critic for a magazine for a bit, I did writing for nonprofits and political things, I was the editorial consultant for another magazine for a couple years, all sorts of jobs. — Tod Goldberg

I show them the funny part, the silly part, the laughing part, the crazy part and then the really deep, deep part where I'm talking from my heart to these people. Because I've been through everything they've been through. — Richard Simmons

All the past is here, present to be tried; let it approve itself if it can. — Henry David Thoreau

Harry Harlow, a well-known American primatologist, was an early critic of the hunger reduction model. He argued that intelligent animals learn mostly through curiosity and free exploration, both of which are likely killed by a narrow fixation on food. He poked fun at the Skinner box, seeing it as a splendid instrument to demonstrate the effectiveness of food rewards but not to study complex behavior. — Frans De Waal

It's important for me to think I'm mixed-race. — Dan O'Brien

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There was Virginia Boote, the food and restaurant critic, who had once been a great beauty but was now a grand and magnificent ruin, and who delighted in her ruination. — Neil Gaiman

As well as Assail and his two cousins, Fang I and II. — J.R. Ward