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Italian food quotes

Italian Food quotes, the best known Italians phrases and food-related sayings that clearly show how Italian traditions are part of the Italian people's daily lives.

   

Food culture is so much a part of Italian life, that there are some Italian food quotes that have become unique to Italian life and you may find them mentioned in cookery books or in a typical restaurant.

 

  • A tavola non si invecchia (You don't age while seated for a meal.)
  • L'appetito vien mangiando (The appetite comes while you're eating.)
  • Anche l'occhio vuole la sua parte (The eyes want their part - in the sense that something has to be pleasing to the eyes - apart from having other qualities).
  • Mangia che ti passa (Eat and it will be over, you'll feel better).
  • Paese che vai, usanza che trovi (different places you visit, different customs you'll find)

Italian food sayings

Other than the most known Italian food quotesmentioned above, there are also some sentences that indicate the importance of good food:

Oscar Wilde (I can't stand people that do not take food seriously.)

Brillat- Savarin (The discovery of a new dish is more precious to human beings than the discovery of a new star.)

Charles Lamb (I hate the man who eats without knowing what he's eating. I doubt his taste in more important things.)

Virginia Wolf (One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one hasn't eaten well.)

anonymous (The cuisine of a country is the only exact attestation of its civilization.)

 

 

 

 

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