Welcome to our collection of delectable barbecue quotes! Barbecue, a beloved culinary tradition across cultures, embodies more than just the savory aroma wafting through the air or the succulent flavors dancing on your taste buds. It’s a celebration of community, a testament to the artistry of grilling, and a reminder of the simple pleasures in life. Whether you’re a pitmaster extraordinaire or simply someone who enjoys gathering around the grill with friends and family, these quotes capture the essence of the barbecue experience.
From humorous quips about the sizzle of the grill to profound reflections on the joy of shared meals, the world of barbecue is rich with wisdom and wit. So, fire up your grill, grab your favorite barbecue sauce, and get ready to be inspired by these mouthwatering quotes. Whether you’re looking for the perfect caption for your next Instagram post or simply seeking some barbecue-themed inspiration, you’ll find plenty to savor right here.
I have a good house for hosting, so we had the barbecues, and some of the guys over for Thanksgiving, even Christmas. Logan Mankins
I felt like I couldn’t meet a single rich person. Regardless of where I live, they don’t want to talk to me. I threw a barbecue and invited the whole neighborhood, and nobody showed up. Chris Cubas
The best parties have always been at my house in Ibiza. They start with a bit of music and a barbecue by the pool. Jade Jagger
I get nervous cooking for our little house party barbecues. I’m very insecure with my cooking. I tend to throw things away that I’m scared of serving, even though they might be great. Chrissy Teigen
Every year, I do a New Year’s day party at my home. I invite my staff and my friends and their kids. Around 40-50 people come by, and I do a barbecue and salads, steak and sushi, and also lots of cheese. Nobu Matsuhisa
Whether were eating tacos at a roadside stand outside of Houston, or having barbecue somewhere down south, or beautiful fried eggs in New York City, theyre regional specialties that remind us of the history of this country, and the bounty it has to offer. Alex Wagner
I’m kinda famous for my barbecues – I’m always hosting parties. Bonnie McKee
There is no real need for decorations when throwing a barbecue party – let the summer garden, in all its vibrant and luscious splendour, speak for itself. Pippa Middleton
I didn’t go nightclubbing much as a teenager in Bournemouth because my friends and I didn’t have the money – but we spent a lot of time on the beach, having barbecues, and running into the sea in the middle of the night. Amanda Holden
I’m a foodie. I enjoy it a lot, and contrary to what it looks, I eat a lot. My comfort food, of all things, would be southern soul barbecue. Zach Johnson
If summer had one defining scent, it’d definitely be the smell of barbecue. Katie Lee
Straight up, Oreos, sodas, chips, salsa dips, egg white omelets, yogurts, breads, ketchups, mustards, barbecue sauce, frozen pizzas, hot pockets, ice cream, all these things that you eat in your normal life – I think if chefs got more involved in that, then it could be better. Because we’re the ones that know flavor. Roy Choi
I always wondered, like, you know how you go to the family barbecue, and your uncle is that funny guy that you laugh at because he’s family? That’s how I felt with ‘Fighter and the Kid.’ People would laugh at my stuff, but it was always tough for me to tell. I just needed to see if there was something going on. Brendan Schaub
We all know you can’t have a Fourth of July barbecue without the fixings that go with it. Rachel Hollis
I’ve been on a team that won the world championship of barbecue. But barbecue’s interesting, because it’s one of these cult foods like chili, or bouillabaisse. Various parts of the world will have a cult food that people get enormously attached to – there’s tremendous traditions; there’s secrecy. Nathan Myhrvold
I’m a culture person when I’m working, so my downtime is beach time: sand, surf and a barbecue. John Torode
Creating a healthier alternative to barbecue sauce isn’t easy. The extreme range of flavors, from piercing vinegar to salty to sweet to barely perceptible umami, isn’t easy to recreate. Chris Morocco
From 1971 onwards, the Memorial Day holiday was officially observed on the last Monday in May and became the unofficial start of the summer, with barbecues, blockbuster movie openings and mattress sales. Allen West
I like to sit around the pool, listen to music, barbecue, grill, stuff like that. Just the guy next door, I guess. Dale Earnhardt Jr.
In Canada, you can’t even have a barbecue in your backyard without being attacked by a moose or even a grizzly bear. Then again, the grizzlies don’t beat anyone here in Vancouver; oh, it’s true, it’s true. Kurt Angle
Music was a big part of my family with gatherings, picnics, barbecues. Lou Williams
I actually got discovered in my hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania by a man who worked at a place that sold barbecue sandwiches! George Benson
My favorite moments? Where it’s all going swimmingly, the sun’s out and I’ve got a fire going and a nice snake on the barbecue. Bear Grylls
I really enjoy sailing on Lake Geneva because I can just look at the shore and see my wife having a barbecue with the kids. Ernesto Bertarelli
Every summer my husband and I pack our suitcases, load our kids into the car, and drive from tense, crowded New York City to my family’s cottage in Maine. It’s on an island, with stretches of sea and sandy beaches, rocky coasts, and pine trees. We barbecue, swim, lie around, and try to do nothing. Hope Davis
Southern barbecue is the closest thing we have in the U.S. to Europe’s wines or cheeses; drive a hundred miles and the barbecue changes. John Shelton Reed
We don’t really want to work for a corporation; however, we do aspire to one day make a barbecue sauce that doubles as a cologne, and we would like to promote that ourselves. We would like to create a cologne barbecue sauce benchmark of success. Charles Lincoln Neal
At home, I’m not a rock star. I wear dad-appropriate attire. I drive a truck. And we go out to the mountains to light fires and have barbecues. Even then, The Killers are usually in the back of my mind. Brandon Flowers
Barbecue is the good old technique of people making a fire and putting some stuff over the top – I mean, look at the S’more: it’s just got a stick. A lot of those goofy toys, it’s people who are looking at things to do. I think if you focus on the food, at the most you need tongs or a spoon to flip something; that’s about it. Graham Elliot
I love my family more than life itself, but I can only sit at home by my pool eating barbecue food so many days before I go cuckoo. Mike Portnoy
I hope I will have a family. A house, with a garden, will be nice. And I would love a barbecue! Just very simple things and a passion to work hard. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
People don’t know barbecue is a Taino-Indian words. They think it’s American! And jerk chicken is from the Maroon and Taino people, too. Andi Oliver
Golf is my passion, and so is great barbecue. John Daly
We used to be called the Dixie Chickens. Then we played at a barbecue place, and they had a sign saying, ‘Featured Tonight: The Dixie Chickens,’ and everybody started ordering it for dinner! So we shortened it. Martie Maguire
Not to name drop, but I’m kind of best friends with Yanni. We barbecue together, we’ve walked on beaches together – it’s kind of a thing. James Murray
We like visiting beaches and seeing the area. We went to St Mawes in Cornwall with my brother recently and spent the days crabbing, mackerel fishing and having barbecues. Tony Hadley
I go quite often to David Luiz’s house, and Willian usually joins us, as they are close friends. We have a barbecue, play video games, and we cannot live without samba. Richarlison
Barbecue is the third rail of North Carolina politics. John Shelton Reed
In America, diner food or roadside barbecue is the best road food, but I am not a fan of eating while driving – too messy. Jose Andres
At the weekends, I usually have around 50 kids running around in my back garden. They are all friends of my kids. I know all their names. We have barbecues, put up tents, and play soccer. I love it. Magnus Scheving
The podcast by ‘The Kitchen Sisters’ celebrates the staggering variety of a society of immigrants via its food, from the Sheepherders’ Ball in Boise, Idaho, through the favoured cuisine of Emily Dickinson to the unbelievable rituals of the great rural barbecue. David Hepworth
We sat around and I fed them barbecue and whiskey. And pretty soon everyone started to compete with each other on the guitars. It seemed the more everyone drank and ate, the more everyone got into it. Gary Allan
I think Korean barbecue is very accessible to Americans because it’s sort of similar to something we know, but with different flavours. Heather Graham
I first picked up a guitar at seven after watching Dad play at backyard barbecues. Cody Simpson
The first time I read ‘Barbecue,’ I fell in love with it. I never laughed so hard in my life. Colman Domingo
Let’s be honest, we all love a roast, but Sunday lunch could be a huge plate of salade nicoise; it could be eggs benedict; it could be a barbecue. The important thing is you’re making an effort, and you’re all together. John Torode
I will always do what I can to help others, but when I retire, I want to be a dad and a husband. I want a house and a dog in the yard. I want to have barbecues. J. J. Watt
I’ve never really been a barbecue guy. Erik Spoelstra
Barbecue may not be the road to world peace, but it’s a start. Anthony Bourdain
I love cooking. I like to make lasagna – it’s authentic Italian-style. I also do a great chicken recipe for a barbecue. Sullivan Stapleton
If I had a magic wand, I would live in a building in New York, big enough so my friends, my family could all have apartments in it. We’d raise our kids in the same space and have backyard barbecues and get old and fat together. Liz Murray
I am not an unhealthy eater for the most part, but I do not restrict the chicken wings and desserts. My brother and I love to barbecue and do it often. Matt Hughes
The Turks are fantastic barbecuers. They have these long barbecue pits called Mangals. The food smells wonderful and has a smoky, charcoaly taste. Rick Stein
When we’re in London my family goes to mass on Christmas Eve. The next day Dad cooks the turkey on the barbecue, standing outside in the freezing cold. Kate Nash
The best thing about animated-feature people is that they are very laid-back people. You feel like you’re showing up for a backyard barbecue. Jennifer Coolidge
I love how the men stand around cooking the barbie while the women have done all the work beforehand doing the marinade and making the salads and then everybody says, ‘what a great barbie’ to the guy cooking. A barbecue is just the ultimate blokes’ pastime, isn’t it? Curtis Stone
I love barbecue, it’s my favorite thing to eat. David Nail
Im not in charge of the barbecue because my wife says I burn everything. Tony Hadley
A great barbecue to me is all about abundance and gathering together! Andi Oliver
American barbecue is all slow and low, you know, or low and slow, as they say down in the South, in Texas. But Korean barbecue is thinner cuts of meat. Roy Choi
Being so closely related to the South, barbecue was part of segregation and helped defeat it. Bobby Seale
Barbecue chips, Lay’s in particular are my favorite. If you have anything barbecue around me, I’m pretty much nibblin’ on ’em. Bradley Beal
Good barbecue has to fall off the bone when you grab it, and, to me, it’s not pull-hard chewy. Sinbad
Dad was known for his barbecues at weekends and bubble and squeak on Sundays. We’d all have to set the table and clear the table. We had our own seats, totally structured. Tim Minchin
That’s because I didn’t have to work with Madea. I only had to work with Madea once, and that was at the barbecue and I didn’t have to get close to her. Shemar Moore
There are a handful of barbecue seafood shacks on the beach at Hat Nai Yang, which is a fabulous place to have dinner. It’s very much run for locals and they serve the catch of the day, which might be lobster, white snapper or squid. It’s ridiculously reasonable, too. Tony Parsons
I’m not a normal person with normal tastebuds, so I’ll save you all from cringing/dissing on my late night flavour pairings, but I will say when I was a kid, with little to no access to anything but my mother’s pantry, I’d dip everything in ranch dressing, Miracle Whip, katsup, barbecue sauce, honey, mustard, etc. Christina Tosi
I have the restaurant, too. I serve Southwest, barbecue. Mickey Gilley
I had no inkling of how crazy the political life would turn out to be. You shuttle between your constituency and Ottawa, you try to make every barbecue, festival, parade and charity run, but sometimes you feel pulled in 14 directions at once. Michael Ignatieff
There’s nothing that can replicate the smoky flavor of char, so when I’ve got the hankering for it, I tell my wife that I’m taking care of dinner. I have three different types of barbecues – a coal, gas and smoker – so I can experiment a lot. Guy Fieri
I would be in Italy working on a film, longing for something simple – like, God, I would just kill to be sitting at a barbecue having a beer right now. Chris O’Donnell
When I tour, it’s like, well, like a food tour as much as a comedy tour. I try to eat at all the weird places, the obscure barbecue joints, burger places. There are a few spots in L.A. that I’m obsessed with – one of them is the Taco Zone taco truck on Alvarado. There are secret off-menu items that are amazing. Aziz Ansari
I made a point to have ‘mini-adventures’ on the road. In Tucson, that meant swinging by a massive airplane graveyard. A quick detour through the Grand Tetons was a Wyoming highlight. We stopped for cheese in Wisconsin and barbecue in South Carolina. Hallie Jackson
My first outdoor cooking memories are full of erratic British summers, Dad swearing at a barbecue that he couldn’t put together, and eventually eating charred sausages, feeling brilliant. Jamie Oliver
I’m a big fan of Myron Mixon. I’ve read a couple of his books, and I’ve learned the little bit that I know about barbecue from those books. Dale Earnhardt Jr.
Barbecue is an incredibly democratic food. It’s cheaper than McDonald’s in many places and far more delicious. On the other hand, the only reason it can be that cheap is they use commodity hogs, the worst of the worst, which is – you know, it’s an industry kind of ruining North Carolina. Michael Pollan
I’m not a huge fan of North Carolina barbecue. I like Memphis style barbecue and Kansas City. Dale Earnhardt Jr.
Obviously, everyone’s different, but I love just settling down and having a barbecue with my friends at the house. Harry Kane
Another way I like to barbecue king salmon is as a whole fish stuffed, literally to the gills, with sweet onions, sliced lemons, and summer sage. Tom Douglas
Comfort is key for a barbecue. Ashley Madekwe
On ‘Friday,’ I had a big trailer, and we would have a barbecue going and music playing. It was a fun set. There was too much involved for ‘The Hangover’ to be a fun set. They’re trying to get money. Mike Epps
I hate barbecues in the U.K., they’re always put together by people who don’t cook. Gregg Wallace
We Harvard students live in a tourist attraction with movie stars and geniuses; we’re recognized on all continents as the creme of the brulee, the syrup on the pancakes of greatness. Yet most of us complain like vegans at a barbecue cook-off. David Fahrenthold
I love Korean rice and Korean food in general. Korean barbecues are cool – there’s a table with a hole in it with fire coming through, and we throw meat on it. Son Heung-min
I actually did my first tour at the age of 10 with my dad, and it was as a country singer. We toured through Alaska, and he took me to sing at places like county fairs, hoedowns, backyard barbecues, you name it. We were usually passing around the hat for gas money to get to the next gig. Tiffany Darwish
The simplest fix for better grilling is to line the inside of your barbecue with tin foil. It dramatically affects how evenly the heat is distributed. That crusty black hibachi or Weber grill is doing your food no favors. Nathan Myhrvold
I do all the cooking in our family. I’m a utilitarian cook, rather than an adventurous one – I only have about 15 recipes in my repertoire that I rotate – but I love being able to go down to the river and catch a 30 lb. salmon, then grill it on the barbecue. Patrick Duffy
I definitely enjoy my barbecue. Billy Butler
I think I can capture the taste buds of the average right-wing conservative who loves barbecue. Bobby Seale
I’m married to a health-conscious American. I try to eat well, but definitely, as an Australian, you have some of the red meat, lamb, steak, barbecues as part of your culture. James P. Gorman
I use ginger like garlic. I love it for steaming fish and making barbecue sauces or roasted chicken. Tom Douglas
There are two different things: there’s grilling, and there’s barbecue. Grilling is when people say, ‘We’re going to turn up the heat, make it really hot and sear a steak, sear a burger, cook a chicken.’ Barbecue is going low and slow. Guy Fieri
Dancing is my number one love. That was my first goal as a child. I would love to do stage, maybe do Chicago. I love being in front of an audience. It’s so stimulating. I also love to barbecue. Carmen Electra
People called me a hoodlum and a thug. But they didn’t tell you I was a carpenter, an architect, a stand-up comic – even a bartender. And a barbecue cook. But they didn’t tell you that. Bobby Seale
At the end of the day, when I kick back with some barbecue and a CokeZero in front of a blockbuster film playing within the convenience of my fully air-conditioned house, I’ll say a small prayer thanking God for the American culture. Steven Crowder
Obviously, for my line of work, I cannot eat barbecue that often. It takes a little bit to digest and it’s not the healthiest thing to eat. Marc Gasol
At barbecues, people just like to eat a lot of meat; it’s extraordinary. They eat far more than they normally would at a dinner party. Prue Leith
I came through the Sixties so I was perfectly aware of drug-taking but I came from South Africa and we were brought up in quite an old-fashioned way. If I went to a rave or a party, I’d be behind the barbecue flipping the burgers. I wasn’t out there partying. Prue Leith
One thing any DJ needs in his crate, especially at a barbecue, is a selection of 15-minute-plus jams. Adam Mansbach
Here in London, you can go for picnics and have a barbecue; you can go to a park and wear bare feet, much like New Zealand. But there’s just so much buzz going on; you can be inspired by anything and everything. There’s always something to do. Always. Emilia Wickstead
