Nora Ephron's Most Memorable Quotes About Food

It's nearly impossible to talk about Nora Ephron without talking about food. And, it seems like Nora Ephron never had any problem talking about food either. If she says butter is okay, we're going to treat her as the gospel. Her relationship with food was one we can admire -- she was honest with her thoughts on the topic and certainly appreciated a good meal.

Check out our favorite Nora Ephron quotes about food:

• "Every time I'm forced to watch them eat egg-white omelettes, I feel bad for them. In the first place, egg-white omelettes are tasteless. In the second place, the people who eat them think they are doing something virtuous when they are instead merely misinformed." <em><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nora-ephron/the-informational-cascade_b_67923.html" target="_hplink">Huffington Post</a>, October 2007</em>

• Q: Do you consider any food a romantic deal-breaker? A: I respect vegetarians, but I could never fall in love with one. Q: The New Yorker described you as someone who eats "slowly" in "small, tidy bites." What should we infer from that? A: That I want my meals to last forever. <em><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/02/opinion/02dowd.html" target="_hplink">Interview with Maureen Down, New York Times</a>, August 2009</em>

• Q: Foie gras: Yes or no? A: Yes! Are you kidding? <em><a href="http://www.epicurious.com/articlesguides/chefsexperts/interviews/noraephroninterview" target="_hplink">Epicurious</a></em>

• "If there is a Nora Ephron signature anything it is that there's slightly too much food. I have a friend whose mantra is: You must choose. And I believe the exact opposite: I think you should always have at least four desserts that are kind of fighting with each other." <em>Interview with <a href="http://www.epicurious.com/articlesguides/chefsexperts/interviews/noraephroninterview" target="_hplink">Epicurious</a></em>

• "It's not that I'm not obsessed about food. I really am and I'm sitting in a room right now with food and I'm 10 feet away from it and I've been thinking the whole time I've been talking to you, is the telephone cord is long enough for me to get some food?" <em><a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/blogs/pop-vox/2009/08/03/15-food-questions-for-nora-ephron.html" target="_hplink">Newsweek</a>, August 2009</em>

• "There's no point in making piecrust from scratch." <em><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nora-ephron/what-i-wish-id-known_b_26337.html" target="_hplink">I Feel Bad About My Neck</a></em>

• "And so, Thanksgiving. Its the most amazing holiday. Just think about it -- it's a miracle that once a year so many millions of Americans sit down to exactly the same meal as one another, exactly the same meal they grew up eating, and exactly the same meal they ate a year earlier. The turkey. The sweet potatoes. The stuffing. The pumpkin pie. Is there anything else we all can agree so vehemently about? I don't think so." <em><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nora-ephron/thanksgiving-recipes-food_b_786217.html#s191990&title=Artichoke_Pie" target="_hplink">Huffington Post</a>, November 2010</em>

• "I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regretted most of them, but never the potatoes that went with them." <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Heartburn-Nora-Ephron/dp/0679767959/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1340742110&sr=8-2&keywords=heartburn" target="_hplink">Heartburn</a></em>

• "Are we really all going to spend our last years avoiding bread, especially now that bread in American is so unbelievable delicious? And what about chocolate?" <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Feel-Bad-About-My-Neck/dp/0739342924" target="_hplink">I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman</a></em>

• "Every so often I would look at my women friends who were happily married and didn't cook, and I would always find myself wondering how they did it. Would anyone love me if I couldn't cook? I always thought cooking was part of the package: Step right up, it's Rachel Samstat, she's bright, she's funny and she can cook!" <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Heartburn-Nora-Ephron/dp/0679767959/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1340742679&sr=1-1&keywords=heartburn+nora+ephron" target="_hplink">Heartburn</a></em>

• "[I] had gotten to the point where I simply could not make a bad vinaigrette, this was not exactly the stuff of drama. (Even now, I cannot believe Mark would want to risk losing that vinaigrette. You just don't bump into vinaigrettes that good.)" <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Heartburn-Nora-Ephron/dp/0679767959/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1340742679&sr=1-1&keywords=heartburn+nora+ephron" target="_hplink">Heartburn</a></em>

• "Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine. I think of it as my own personal bride's disease." <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/CRAZY-SALAD-PLUS-9-Ephron/dp/067150715X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1340742652&sr=8-1&keywords=crazy+salad+plus+nine" target="_hplink">Crazy Salad Plus Nine</a></em>

• "I guess I've always been a food obsessive, and it has gotten worse the older I've gotten." <em><a href="http://www.gourmet.com/food/2009/08/my-day-on-plate-nora-ephron" target="_hplink">Gourmet</a>, August 2009</em>

• "Everybody dies, there's no avoiding it and I do not believe for one second that butter is the cause of anyone's death. Overeating may be, but not butter, please. I just feel bad for people who make that mistake. By the way the same thing is true of olive oil. What difference could it possibly make if there's a little olive oil in your salad dressing? It does not take one day off your life." <em><a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/blogs/pop-vox/2009/08/03/15-food-questions-for-nora-ephron.html" target="_hplink">Newsweek</a>, August 2009</em>

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