If you want to know some amazing Italian food quotes that will make you hungry, you’re going to love what you’re about to read. Mere quotes about Italian food do that to me.
Let’s jump right into these Italian food quotes that will make both you and I crave for pasta and pizza.
Italians know how to cook. And they certainly know how to eat.
Italian cuisine is one of if not the world’s best. The romance between food and Italy goes beyond the material and transcends the spiritual. It is something so extremely extraordinary it’s impossible to describe. Or is it?
Let’s find out in this list of amazing quotes about Italian food that’s sure to make you hungry.
50+ Italian Food Quotes
1. “There’s nothing more romantic than Italian food.”
– Elisha Cuthbert, Canadian actress and model
2. “No matter where I’ve been overseas, the food stinks, except in Italy.”
– Carmen Electra, American actress and media personality
3. “If your mother cooks Italian food, why should you go to a restaurant?”
– Martin Scorsese, Italian-American film director and producer
4. “Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around.”
– Anna Quindlen, American author and journalist
5. “In heaven, after antipasti, the first course will be pasta.”
– Steve Albini, Italian-American musician
6. “Life is a combination of magic and pasta.”
– Federico Fellini, Italian director and screenwriter
7. “Italian food is seasonal. It is simple. It is nutritionally sound. It is flavorful. It is colorful. It’s all the things that make for a good eating experience, and it’s good for you.”
– Lidia Bastianich, Italian-American celebrity chef
8. “The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you’re hungry again.”
– George Miller, Australian film maker
9. “Italian food is all about ingredients and it’s not fussy and it’s not fancy.”
– Wolfgang Puck, Austrian chef
10. “Everything you see I owe to pasta.”
– Sophia Loren, Italian actress
11. “I have to admit that I have a massive weakness for Italian food, which is not very light but so good!”
– Camille Rowe, French-American model and actress
12. “I do love Italian food. Any kind of pasta or pizza.”
– Jennifer Love Hewitt, American singer and actress
13. “Italian food is my favorite food. It’s the most sophisticated eating system.”
– Peter Gabriel, English musician
14. “I’m a big pasta fan. I’m a big Italian food fan. Anything Italian – I love cheese, mozzarella. Mozzarella is my favorite, so I have to say anything Italian, I’ll take it.”
– Malin Åkerman, Swedish-American actress
15. “It’s in the nature of Italians to live life with a positive tone and to celebrate the invitations that come along in life. Italian food is so conducive to all of that.”
– Lidia Bastianich, Italian-American celebrity chef
16. “Wherever I go, I am Italian. The way I talk, the way I eat, the way femininity is important to me. The way I love Italian food.”
– Monica Bellucci, Italian actress
17. “I am not one to turn down macaroni and cheese, even late at night. I love Italian food. I love pasta.”
– Queen Latifah, American singer/rapper
18. “I just love Italian, and I think, from being Italian, I just love Italian food.”
– Jessie James Decker, American singer-songwriter
19. “I cook a lot of Italian food. Bucatini pomodoro is my best: it’s a fat spaghetti with tomato, olive oil, and reminds me of getting married in Italy.”
– Bill Rancic, American entrepreneur
20. “If I am in Italy, I’m going to have a cappuccino and two small brioches and then a mix of orange and grapefruit. I don’t drink tea in Italy.”
– Christian Louboutin, French fashion designer
21. “Life is too short, and I’m Italian. I’d much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0.”
– Sophia Bush, Italian-American actress
22. “In Italy, food is an expression of love. It is how you show those around you that you care for them. Having a love for food means you also have a love for those you are preparing it for and for yourself.”
– Joe Bastianich, American restaurateur and TV personality
23. “Italy will always have the best food.”
– Diane von Furstenberg, Belgian fashion designer
24. “Italian food really reflects the people. It reflects like a prism that fragments into regions.”
– Lidia Bastianich, Italian-American celebrity chef
25. “In Italy, they add work and life on to food and wine.”
– Robin Leach, British reporter
26. “I find that other countries have this or this, but Italy is the only one that has it all for me. The culture, the cuisine, the people, the landscape, the history. Just everything to me comes together there.”
– Frances Mayes, American author
27. “Vitello tonnato is a classic dish from Italy’s Piedmont region that, frankly, sounds patently insane: veal slices dressed in a creamy sauce made from canned tuna and capers. The brain may say no, but the mouth disagrees.”
– Jonathan Miles, American author and journalist
28. “You can do irrefutably impossible things with the right amount of planning and support from intelligent and hardworking people and pizza.”
– Scott M. Gimple, American writer
29. “I grew up in Italy, so for me, Naples pizza is the only type of pizza that there really is.”
– Laura Jane Grace, American musician
30. “I love the simplicity, the ingredients, the culture, the history and the seasonality of Italian cuisine. In Italy people do not travel. They cook the way grandma did, using fresh ingredients and what is available in season.”
– Anne Burrell, American chef and TV personality
31. “If I’m in Italy at a certain time of year, I’ll make sure to try fresh porcini mushrooms in risotto, or puntarelle, a sort of curled chicory leaf that’s only available for a few weeks in May.”
– Antoni Porowski, Canadian actor and TV personality
32. “I think people in Italy live their lives better than we do. It’s an older country, and they’ve learned to celebrate dinner and lunch, whereas we sort of eat as quickly as we can to get through it.”
– George Clooney, American actor
33. “When I got to Italy, the first thing I did was put my little basil plants in the ground and watch them turn into big, healthy bushes.”
– Frances Mayes, American author
34. “Italy has great food and Barcelona has great energy.”
– Stefon Harris, American jazz musician
35. “I grew up in Italy, and our country is a country of great agriculture and food produce. It wasn’t like I was urban and only knew about high-heeled shoes and purses and never knew where my eggs came from.”
– Isabella Rossellini, Italian-American actress
36. “I will say that the food in both Japan and Italy was immaculate. I don’t remember having bad food in either country.”
– Daniel Gillies, Canadian-New Zealand actor and film maker
37. “Italian food’s really basic, and there’s so many different variations on it that what my husband did is he broke it down for me.”
– Debi Mazar, American actress and TV personality
38. “Hollywood cools, and when it cools you have to go to where the work is. I ran off to Italy to do spaghetti westerns.”
– Tab Hunter, American actor
39. “It was the greatest thing in the world getting fat. Every meal out was an event. Or we’d go to Italy and we’d have pasta, truffles, and dessert and then plan the next incredible meal. It was a happy-go-lucky time. I never had so much fun.”
– Kirstie Alley, American actress
40. “The ‘classic’ pig is inspired by northern Italy. It is made up of meat and fat, rosemary and garlic, salt and lots of black pepper.”
– Bill Buford, American author and journalist
41. “We have friends in Italy who have these old stoves, and they turn out the most beautiful food. All you really need is time, the best ingredients, and love.”
– Debi Mazar, American actress and TV personality
42. “Back when I was modeling, the first time I went to Italy, I was having cappuccinos every day, and I gained 15 pounds. And I felt gorgeous!”
– Christina Hendricks, American actress
43. “If you stop for lunch elsewhere in the world, you tend to eat a sandwich, and a bad one. Italy is unique for the style of life. I think everyone envies it a bit.”
– Lapo Elkann, Italian businessman
45. “For a Spaniard, Italy is the best place to live. You’ve got all the beauty, history, art, good food, and fashion.”
– Álvaro Morata, Spanish football player
46. “I once went to Alba, Italy, during their white truffle festival, and I was like, ‘Just leave me here!'”
– Amber Valletta, American model and actress
47. “I think that lunch is one of the most enjoyable and important things in the day. But you need to create the space and the time to do just that. And in Italy, we do that.”
– Lidia Bastianich, Italian-American celebrity chef
48. “Life is too short. If we’re in Italy, have pizza and pasta.”
– Harley Pasternak, Canadian personal trainer and motivational speaker
49. “If I spoke Italian, I’d be in Italy in a minute. I love the food, I love the way people live there. I mean, it really is my idea of paradise.”
– Bonnie Bedelia, American actress
50. “Espresso is a miracle of chemistry in a cup.”
– Andrea Illy, Italian businessman
51. “Espresso is to Italy, what champagne is to France.”
– Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, French statesman and diplomat
52. “You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I’m not hungry enough to eat six.”
– Yogi Berra, American baseball player
53. “I love pizza; you can’t really go wrong with pizza.”
– Nick Jonas, American singer-songwriter
54. “Unless you are a pizza, the answer is yes, I can live without you.”
– Bill Murray, American actor and comedian
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