In this post, you will find great Food Quotes from famous people, such as Martin O’Malley, Edna Ferber, Aarti Sequeira, Jim Harrison, A. P. J. Abdul Kalam. You can learn and implement many lessons from these quotes.
Food is not just eating energy. It’s an experience.
Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.
Food is everything we are. It’s an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It’s inseparable from those from the get-go.
Securing a sustainable, safe food supply and supporting the agriculture industry at home and abroad enables the United States to serve as a global leader in national security.
I want to know what my food has been eating.
I don’t feel comfortable without certain things. I always want some money in my pocket to do whatever I want. Even if it’s something like I want to eat food that costs more than what I got.
I am a bit of a psycho when it comes to food.
As long as there’s pasta and Chinese food in the world, I’m okay.
Food is a lot of people’s therapy – when we say comfort food, we really mean that. It’s releasing dopamine and serotonin in your brain that makes you feel good.
I’ve had this terrible stomach problem for years, and that has made touring difficult. People would see me sitting in the corner by myself looking sick and gloomy. The reason is that I was trying to fight against the stomach pain, trying to hold my food down. People looked me and assumed I was some kind of addict.
I love making Italian food. And coconut chicken.
Eat all the junk food you want – as long as you cook it yourself. That way, it’ll be less junky, and you won’t eat it every day because it’s a lot of work.
Not eating meat is a decision, eating meat is an instinct.
My weaknesses have always been food and men – in that order.
I get really mean or emotional if I don’t have food in my system.
Of course I didn’t pioneer the use of food in fiction: it has been a standard literary device since Chaucer and Rabelais, who used food wonderfully as a metaphor for sensuality.
I am often asked the question: ‘What is your favorite type of food?’ Although I always answer Japanese, the real response should be and is pierogi, the delectable Polish dumplings that my mother, Big Martha, made so well in many incarnations: potato, sweet cabbage, blueberry, peach, plum, and apricot.
You entertain people who are satisfied. Hungry people can’t be entertained – or people who are afraid. You can’t entertain a man who has no food.
Italian food is my favorite food. It’s the most sophisticated eating system.
I learnt a lot from eating junk food.
Ounce for ounce, herbs and spices have more antioxidants than any other food group.
The need for connection and community is primal, as fundamental as the need for air, water, and food.
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
I do remember how it was to be poor. I do remember that in my early years, we had to grow and raise all of our food, even our animals. And I remember in my early life, we didn’t even have electricity. So it was very, very hard times then.
If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?
On tour, people know that if they ever ask me what I want to eat, I will always say Asian food. I’m becoming a stereotype, but it’s what I want to eat. I want to eat rice.
I’ve been on food stamps and welfare. Anybody help me out? No. No. They gave me hope, and they gave me encouragement, and they gave me a vision. That came from my education.
I won’t eat anything green.
My grandmother used to make the most incredible chicken divan, and my mom has carried out that tradition. It’s my comfort food. It’s amazing how you can almost taste the memories with a dish like that! And the more leftovers, the better.
Representation matters. And it’s about more than just actors on a screen. It’s about snacks, it’s about food, it’s about culture, in every possible way.
Simply by starting to cook again, you declare your independence from the culture of fast food. As soon as you cook, you start thinking about ingredients. You start thinking about plants and animals and not the microwave. And you will find that your diet, just by that one simple act, that is greatly improved.
Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth… these are one and the same fight. We must connect the dots between climate change, water scarcity, energy shortages, global health, food security and women‘s empowerment. Solutions to one problem must be solutions for all.
In general, the more food we eat in its natural state – without additives – and the less it is refined, the healthier it will be for us. Food can affect the mind, and deficiencies of certain elements in the body can promote mental depression.
Well, sometimes if I go out to dinner with my family, people will come up to me and put their hand across my plate for me to shake, sometimes when I have a bite of food in my mouth. I find this a bit disturbing.
I like Chinese and Indian food, but only every couple of weeks.
My grandfather‘s family used to own a pasta factory in Naples and they would go door-to-door selling their pasta. So his love of food came from his parents, which was then passed down to my mother and then again to me.
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.
Dinner is often a very celebratory environment, a very safe place, a time to reflect and let the day go and enjoy good food and good wine. It’s a very peaceful moment during the day. A great dinner can change your day around.
I would like to see people more aware of where their food comes from. I would like to see small farmers empowered. I feed my daughter almost exclusively organic food.
You can’t have a healthy civilization without healthy soil. You can’t have junk food and have healthy people.
I worked as a waiter when I was 15 and got a chance to appreciate good, simple food. There’s nothing better than a boiled egg with toast.
School is where children spend most of their time, and it is where we lay the foundation for healthy habits. That’s why New Jersey is the first state to adopt a comprehensive school nutrition policy that bans candy, soda, and other junk food.
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
I love to try the local food wherever I am. But I’m not that adventurous when it comes to eating. I prefer to be safe. I have failed at eating some daring food.
In World War II, jazz absolutely was the music of freedom, and then in the Cold War, behind the Iron Curtain, same thing. It was all underground, but they needed the food of freedom that jazz offered.
I’m not a big fan of food, but when I do eat, I like to eat.
More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.
You do need some dispensation for local farmers, because the fast food industry will promote the unsanitary conditions of farming. With vegetables, you have to be careful where they come from; you have to know the farmers and trust them. If you buy from the farmers’ market, it’s already been investigated.
I’m a healthy eater, but I don’t consider Chick-fil-A fast food.
I was lucky to marry Paul. He was a great inspiration, his enthusiasm about wine and food helped to shape my tastes, and his encouragement saw me through discouraging moments. I never would have had my career without Paul Child.
Large-scale deforestation can be prevented while increasing food production through better, smarter agriculture.
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
I always mention stacking the dishwasher – any opportunity. But it’s the consequences – it’s the food poisoning and the potential death that will come with not loading the dishwasher properly.
When people say they prefer organic food, what they often seem to mean is they don’t want their food tainted with pesticides and their meat shot full of hormones or antibiotics. Many object to the way a few companies – Monsanto is the most famous of them – control so many of the seeds we grow.
I believe that you can, by taking some simple and inexpensive measures, lead a longer life and extend your years of well-being. My most important recommendation is that you take vitamins every day in optimum amounts to supplement the vitamins that you receive in your food.
In Italy, they add work and life on to food and wine.
When I’m able to eat cheap and delicious food, like ramen and beef bowls, I can’t stop but to think, ‘Ah, what a great era I was born in.’
Those who store, package, and sell the food we serve our families have a responsibility to maintain basic standards of cleanliness in their facilities.
We’re all so busy we don’t make time to enjoy our lives, good company and good food.
I’m not a chef. But I’m passionate about food – the tradition of it, cooking it, and sharing it.
When I’m out, maybe I’m looking at the fried chicken, but I know I need to order the grilled. But I’m still from the country. I love my fried food and my neck bones and all that, too.
Let me be the first to tell you, drinking alcohol is the worst thing to do in cold weather. Hot soup is the best because the process of digesting food helps to warm you up.
Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry.
I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.
I hate ‘foodie’ because it’s cute, like pretty much all diminutives associated with eating. ‘Veggies,’ ‘sammies,’ ‘parm.’ I eat food, and I cook it: it’s for eating, preferably with friends, and I don’t make a fetish out of it.
I’ll eat anything. I love food in general. I love traditional Mexican, carne asada. Just meat, beans, rice, and some good salsa.
There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
My ultimate getaway is Vietnam. It has a little bit of everything when it comes to culture, amazing food, beautiful people, exotic sights, sounds and profound history of love, bravery and resilience.
I love food, all types of food. I love Korean food, Japanese, Italian, French. In Australia, we don’t have a distinctive Australian food, so we have food from everywhere all around the world. We’re very multicultural, so we grew up with lots of different types of food.
For the first 50 years of your life the food industry is trying to make you fat. Then, the second 50 years, the pharmaceutical industry is treating you for everything.
I’m not really a food connoisseur.
This is the richest country in the world. There’s no reason kids should be going to school hungry. Food is something that everyone should have. It just is.
Open your refrigerator, your freezer, your kitchen cupboards, and look at the labels on your food. You’ll find ‘natural flavor’ or ‘artificial flavor’ in just about every list of ingredients. The similarities between these two broad categories are far more significant than the differences.
My favorite thing to do in a new city is find new fast food. I seek it out. I’ll tweet and ask people what their favorite local place is, and if I get four or five with the same answer, then I’ll check it out.
The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small.
Agriculture is not crop production as popular belief holds – it’s the production of food and fiber from the world’s land and waters. Without agriculture it is not possible to have a city, stock market, banks, university, church or army. Agriculture is the foundation of civilization and any stable economy.
I love to take something ordinary and make it really special.
The thing that makes my generation The Greatest is our ability to hang out. We’re spectacular at it. If you take somebody from my generation and sit them on a couch and bring them food and plumbing, they’ll sit there and talk to you about anything you want until the day you die.
I don’t want food that comes from animals that are caged up and fed antibiotics. I am really suspicious of that kind of production of meat and poultry.
I always encourage people to get out there, travel the world, see new things, experience new people, experience new food, experience new culture. What happens is that helps you to grow and be your best self.
Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.
Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction.
Ice cream is my comfort food.
I’m a girl, and I’m a cook- I just like to cook, and I don’t like to worry about the distinctions. We’re just supposed to make good food.
Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.
We know that without food we would die. Without fellowship, life is not worth living.
Food service workers, home care workers, farm workers, and other low-wage workers log long hours. They come home tired after providing services and producing goods that make our country stronger. They deserve fair treatment from their employers, and they deserve a voice in collective bargaining.
Food is all about balance; it is all about taste.
Kip Keino, Moses Tanui, Paul Tergat, they all come from my tribe. Some say it is the food we eat that makes us strong, the way we live. In the history of our people we wear no clothes and we are used to drinking the blood of animals.
Nobody in Singapore drinks Singapore Slings. It’s one of the first things you find out there. What you do in Singapore is eat. It’s a really food-crazy culture, where all of this great food is available in a kind of hawker-stand environment.
After a natural disaster, safe drinking water is a priority. Humans can live longer without food than water, so communication about clean water is essential to help avoid the risk of cholera, dysentery, malnutrition, famine, and death.
From dead plant matter to nematodes to bacteria, never underestimate the cleverness of mushrooms to find new food!
The only think I like better than talking about Food is eating.
I’m something of a foodie, I guess, and I’m a big Chinese food fan.
The worst food you’ll ever eat will probably be prepared by a ‘cook’ who calls himself a ‘chef.’ Mark my words.
Society is fast – fast food, fast cars, fast everything.
The sharing of food is the basis of social life.
It’s easy to impress me. I don’t need a fancy party to be happy. Just good friends, good food, and good laughs. I’m happy. I’m satisfied. I’m content.
Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
I love eating shabu-shabu in Japan – a kind of beef hotpot. But if you’re talking about authentic, traditional food, then Italian cooking is one of the best in the world.
In both business and personal life, I’ve always found that travel inspires me more than anything else I do. Evidence of the languages, cultures, scenery, food, and design sensibilities that I discover all over the world can be found in every piece of my jewelry.
I am a sucker for those old traditional places, and Rome is as good as it gets, particularly when you throw in Italian food.
The Japanese don’t have a specific religion, but a spirituality. A cap, shoes, and a table have a spirituality. When you eat an apple, you don’t say you eat it: you say, ‘I am receiving it.’ Kind of like you are thanking the food.
My family lived off the land and summer evening meals featured baked stuffed tomatoes, potato salad, corn on the cob, fresh shelled peas and homemade ice cream with strawberries from our garden. With no air conditioning in those days, the cool porch was the center of our universe after the scorching days.
Food feeds our souls. It is the single great unifier across all cultures. The table offers a sanctuary and a place to come together for unity and understanding.
When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
I don’t enjoy good food. I don’t enjoy flashy cars. I don’t care if I live in a dump. I don’t enjoy good clothes. This is the best I’ve dressed in months.
A poet could write volumes about diners, because they’re so beautiful. They’re brightly lit, with chrome and booths and Naugahyde and great waitresses. Now, it might not be so great in the health department, but I think diner food is really worth experiencing periodically.
I’m a big foodie and I love the Food Network. I watch it alarmingly too much.
When I get down to Louisiana, I get to have a taste of some of that great food.
If food were free, why work?
The best comfort food will always be greens, cornbread, and fried chicken.
The Horny Toad in Cave Creek has great food. When I’m in Arizona, I have at least one meal there. I have a daughter who lives out there, and Dee Dee Wood, who was the choreographer on ‘Mary Poppins,’ lives out there. I still get out there once in a while, but not in the summer.
Marcus Samuelsson is a chef who inspires me everyday. He has such a deep understanding of flavors and techniques. His food is representative of the diverse world that we live in. What he has done in Harlem with Red Rooster is very special. Marcus is not just a chef, he’s a food activist.
Ever notice that Soup for One is eight aisles away from Party Mix?
The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing – that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world – is what I wish for all.
As people flock to urban centers where ground space is limited, cities with green walls and roofs and skyscraper farms offer improved health and well-being, renewable resources, reliable food supply, and relief to the environment.
Chefs are at the end of a long chain of individuals who work hard to feed people. Farmers, beekeepers, bakers, scientists, fishermen, grocers, we are all part of that chain, all food people, all dedicated to feeding the world.
The less food, the more time to talk, the more to talk about.
It’s okay to eat fish because they don’t have any feelings.
Everybody has a weakness. Mine is food.
In America, I would say New York and New Orleans are the two most interesting food towns. In New Orleans, they don’t have a bad deli. There’s no mediocrity accepted.
Women oftentimes are the ones making those economic decisions, sitting around the kitchen table and trying to figure out how to pay for rising gas prices or food prices or the health insurance costs. And I think that they see where they expect their leaders in Congress to also make those tough decisions.
Like all food, whether you’re talking about Persian food, or Chinese food, or Swedish food, it’s always a reflection of wars, trading, a bunch of good and a bunch of bad. But what’s left is always the food story.
I said to my friends that if I was going to starve, I might as well starve where the food is good.
I don’t think there’s going to be a day when I don’t think about food or my body, but I’m living with it, and I wish I could tell young girls to find their safe place and stay with it.
Whatever I try to do, I always try to give it my best and try to be a killer because, at the end of the day, if you don’t work hard, you are not going to get food on your table.
My mum was the most wonderful cook and our house was always full of delicious food and interesting people. I remember dad entertaining the likes of Des O’Connor and Bruce Forsyth. But what really shaped my childhood were the amazing Jamaican dishes that mum produced so effortlessly.
Well, we lost a lot of our independence already. We are dependent on China for credit. We are dependent on Middle Eastern countries for energy supplies. And many Americans are dependent on the government for their income, health care, education of their children, food stamps.
Any purchase is one for the future. If you buy a refrigerator, you are making a commitment to the future so that you have food to eat for the next ten years.
Like the practice of breath control, meditation on the forms of God, repetition of mantras, food restrictions, etc., are but aids for rendering the mind quiescent.
The food habits of the different classes of Hindus have been as fixed and stratified as their cults. Just as Hindus can be classified on their basis of their cults, so also they can be classified on the basis of their habits of food.
It’s easy for Americans to forget that the food they eat doesn’t magically appear on a supermarket shelf.
Anything is good if it’s made of chocolate.
We don’t value food in Britain, so therefore the cheaper it is the better it is. We all eat far too much, we all pay far too little for our food. We have environmental problems, we have health problems, we have food transport problems.
Real nutrition comes from soybeans, almonds, rice, and other healthy vegetable sources, not from a cow‘s udder.
I’m totally obsessed with Italian food and Mexican food.
My kitchen witch hangs above the sink in my kitchen. Some people think it’s specifically so that you don’t burn food when you cook, but I like to think that it’s warding off evil spirits and bad things in general.
Being a consultant is like flying first-class. The food is terrific, the drinks are cold. But all you can do is walk up to the pilot and say, ‘bank left.’ If you’re in management, you have the controls.
My favorite food is Ramen.
Often, the pretexts for starting a war are not real shortages of land, food or fuel, but rather perceptions – like fear, honor and perceived self-interest.
In Ethiopia, food is often looked at through a strong spiritual lens, stronger than anywhere else I know. It’s the focal point of weddings, births and funerals and is a daily ceremony from the preparation of the meal and the washing of hands to the sharing of meals.
The best part of Onam is the food. For breakfast, we have ila ada and boiled bananas with banana chips, it’s a brilliant combination.
Italian food is all about ingredients and it’s not fussy and it’s not fancy.
Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I’m taking with me when I go.
I don’t eat bad food. I probably just eat too much food, and I think a lot of people do.
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.
I’ll always be known reaching out to young people who have no one to help them out, so I help them out with a place to stay or some food to eat or some change for their pocket.
You go out, you order a steak. What do they do? They bring you a salad. They don’t even charge you anything for it, cause it ain’t worth anything, cause it ain’t food!
Too little is it considered, while we gaze on aristocratic beauty, how much good food, soft lying, warm wrapping, ease of mind, have to do with the attractions which command our admiration.
It’s like wine and food, or coffee and a pastry – coffee’s awesome and a chocolate croissant is awesome, and together, they’re transcendent. To me, music is the same way. Chris Stapleton is transcendent. Julien Baker is transcendent. Together, they’re going to be euphoria.
Fettucini alfredo is macaroni and cheese for adults.
I’ve always believed in a rainbow diet. As many colors and foods as you can eat, the better, because if you focus on one food, there’s bound to be a report that comes out that says, ‘Broccoli actually… ‘ So I mix it up a lot. And I take vitamins, like Biosil, which I take for my hair, skin, and nails.
My inspiration was my mom. She’s a great cook, and she still cooks, and we still banter back and forth about cooking. Growing up in a mostly Portuguese community, food was important and the family table was extremely important. At a very young age I understood that.
I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they’re looting, if you see a white family it says they’re looking for food.
I have always said there is only one thing that can bring our nation down – our dependence on foreign countries for food and energy. Agriculture is the backbone of our economy.
Fast food is hugely important in the life of a comedy writer. All we do is order in, and what we’re going to eat is hotly debated.
If we as a society are willing to have a preference for organic food, the farmer can pass on the savings.
Who doesn’t like to get dressed up and eat good food?
If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
Short cycle business are being impacted by credit, and are being impacted by gasoline prices, food, distribution businesses, chemical business.
Because of media hype and woefully inadequate information, too many people nowadays are deathly afraid of their food, and what does fear of food do to the digestive system? I am sure that an unhappy or suspicious stomach, constricted and uneasy with worry, cannot digest properly.
Sorry, I don’t eat any fast food. I believe in eating healthy organic foods for a better lifestyle.
We have these weapons of mass destruction on every street corner, and they’re called donuts, cheeseburgers, French fries, potato chips, junk food. Our kids are living on a junk food diet.
The table is a meeting place, a gathering ground, the source of sustenance and nourishment, festivity, safety, and satisfaction. A person cooking is a person giving: Even the simplest food is a gift.
I don’t do dinner parties. I have people come to share the food I’ve cooked for the family.
There is no one on earth who knew you from the day you were born; who knew why you cried, or when you’d had enough food; who knew exactly what to say when you were hurting; and who encouraged you to grow a good heart. When that layer goes, whatever is left of your childhood goes with her.
The act of eating is very political. You buy from the right people, you support the right network of farmers and suppliers who care about the land and what they put in the food.
Listen – of course money changes everything, but so does sunlight, and so does food: These are powerful but neutral energy sources, neither inherently good nor evil but shaped only by the way we use them.
The easiest diet is, you know, eat vegetables, eat fresh food. Just a really sensible healthy diet like you read about all the time.
Thanksgiving, our eminent moral holiday, doesn’t have much for children. At its heart are conversation, food, drink, and fellowship – all perks of adulthood.
Food is culture. Food is an identity, a footprint of who you are.
Eating good food is my favourite thing in the whole world. Nothing is more blissful.
I’ve always wanted to be someone with credibility, and I want my food to speak for myself.
Fast food is popular because it’s convenient, it’s cheap, and it tastes good. But the real cost of eating fast food never appears on the menu.
I’ve always liked Mexican food.
My favourite thing in the world is going out to get Chinese food, then coming home and renting a movie.
I could talk food all day. I love good food.
From Julia Child to ‘The Galloping Gourmet’ and the Food Channel and Cooking Channel, our fascination with the spectacle of cooking has been a mainstay of TV entertainment.
From food security to housing, from job creation to healthcare, from financial inclusion to insurance – we have adopted a holistic approach towards social welfare.
If the people use the wealth bestowed on them by God for themselves alone or for treasuring it, it is like a corpse. But if they decide to share it with others, it becomes sacred food.
‘Potato-chip news‘ is news that’s repetitive, requires little effort to absorb, and is consumable in massive quantities: true crime, natural disasters, political punditry, celebrity gossip, sports gossip, or endless photographs of beautiful houses, food, or clothes.
We are not hungry… Why foist this food upon us? We don’t want to be choked. We have enough.
If I’m making a movie and get hungry, I call time-out and eat some crackers.
The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body.
The kitchen is a sacred space.
I get way too much happiness from good food.
My philosophy from day one is that I can sleep better at night if I can improve an individual’s knowledge about food and wine, and do it on a daily basis.
An awful lot of food is thrown away. This you can call a spillover. It doesn’t sort of enter into our economic system because it’s a consequence of running things in a highly competitive way: the free market, global pricing and so on.
If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now.
For me, personally, I love delicious food when I’m stressed.
To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can’t eat it.
Food should be fun.
Zombies let us explore notions of the apocalypse – no water, food, medical care, the government imploding – while letting us sleep at night.
Food sovereignty is an affirmation of who we are as indigenous peoples and a way, one of the most surefooted ways, to restore our relationship with the world around us.
Food is a great thing to be enthusiastic about, its not hurting anybody.
Fashion pictures show people looking glamorous. Travel pictures show a place looking at its best, nothing to do with the reality. In the cookery pages, the food always looks amazing, right? Most of the pictures we consume are propaganda.
Being a vegan is pretty easy these days, as almost every town and city has health food stores and vegetarian-friendly restaurants.
We struggle with eating healthily, obesity, and access to good nutrition for everyone. But we have a great opportunity to get on the right side of this battle by beginning to think differently about the way that we eat and the way that we approach food.
It has long been known for sure that the sight of tasty food makes a hungry man’s mouth water; also lack of appetite has always been regarded as an undesirable phenomenon, from which one might conclude that appetite is essentially linked with the process of digestion.
If you go to a restaurant and you go with people you like, your food will always taste really good.
I guess after college, I just got really into food. I also think going on the road doing stand-up makes you more into food. Because when you travel like that, one of the things to do is find really good places to eat.
The most terrible fear that anybody should have is not war, is not a disease, not cancer or heart problems or food poisoning – it’s a man or a woman without a sense of humor.
The case for exploiting animals for food, clothing and entertainment often relies on our superior intelligence, language and self-awareness: the rights of the superior being trump those of the inferior.
I think steak is the ultimate comfort food, and if you’re going out for one, that isn’t the time to scrimp on calories or quality.
Unhealthy eating habits cause major health problems, such as diabetes and heart disease, and can also lead to food insecurity, disrupted eating patterns, and low self-esteem.
We are stronger as a group than an individual. Think in a cooperative and communal way, set up local food hubs and create growing communities.
My favorite thing about Taiwan is the food.
If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
Sandwiches are wonderful. You don’t need a spoon or a plate!
It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.
I had to give up a lot of foods that I’m accustomed to eating: dairy products, beer, wine, spicy food.
The food we eat goes beyond its macronutrients of carbohydrates, fat and protein. It’s information. It interacts with and instructs our genome with every mouthful, changing genetic expression.
Food is all about the story of a people through the ages.
I don’t eat fast food, but I can’t live without pizza.
Congress Yuvraj Rahul Gandhi‘s visit to houses of poor sharing food with them or night stays will not alleviate poverty. Nor can poverty be tackled by implementation of rural employment scheme.
Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
I am certainly Italian in my love of food! I eat everything, but I love Italian food most of all. Even my daughter does. Her favourite food is pasta and parmigiana.
Sandwiches are wonderful. You don’t need a spoon or a plate!
Give your kids a bloody knife and fork and let me put some fresh food in front of them they can eat.
What people want is their basic needs. So I’m trying to help people ensure their basic need: that means food security, healthcare, education, and job opportunity and a better life.
A lot of people think about food as fuel, where you need to get nutrients in your body.
Good food is healthy food. Food is supposed to sustain you so you can live better, not so you can eat more. Some people eat to live, and some people live to eat.
Cooking at home with fresh ingredients means you know what’s going into your food.
It fills my heart with pride and joy that international food writers and press have taken an interest in Tijuana.
Animals are my friends… and I don’t eat my friends.
The ability of communities to meet their most basic needs – food, water, energy, sanitation – is threatened by climate change.
I am your fairy tale. Your dream. Your wishes and desires, and I am your thirst and your hunger and your food and your drink.
People need dreams, there’s as much nourishment in ’em as food.
Food safety involves everybody in the food chain.
Louisiana was as close to South Asia as the United States could get: it had spicy food, humidity, giant cockroaches, and a corrupt government.
Tinned food can be cheaper than buying fresh stuff. Things like tinned carrots, tinned potatoes, mushy peas make a good base for a soup.
Food can become such a point of anxiety – not because it’s food, but just because you have anxiety. That’s how eating disorders develop.
Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.
I’m not an amazing cook. But I can follow a recipe!
I was born in Paris, and it’s a beautiful place, but London feels like home. I like the village feeling, I like running in the parks – even the food isn’t as bad as it used to be.
I only get fat when I eat food cooked by other chefs. At home, my wife does all the cooking. She makes simple things like soups and salads. We both like steamed tofu.
Indian food has been huge in the UK forever and ever, but that’s because it has a historical rooting. America, I think is really ripe for it. There’s been so much interest in Indian culture.
We have to bring children into a new relationship to food that connects them to culture and agriculture.
Every meal should end with something sweet. Maybe it’s jelly on toast at breakfast, or a small piece of chocolate at dinner – but it always helps my brain bring a close to the meal.
Man should not try to avoid stress any more than he would shun food, love or exercise.
It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.
I’ve changed my diet a few times. Now I’m trying to eat more protein. I eat little meals throughout the day. I love food, so I still give myself great meals. Also, when I’m busy, it’s easy to lose weight.
People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue.
I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live without food.
The most important thing is to snack on things that are filled with real food and nourishing ingredients that will leave you feeling energised and happy.
Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.
Our deep respect for the land and its harvest is the legacy of generations of farmers who put food on our tables, preserved our landscape, and inspired us with a powerful work ethic.
My feeling is that labels are for canned food… I am what I am – and I know what I am.
I love to feed people, and I like to cook food they want to eat and food that will be good for them. I try to cook them things that are lower in fat and see if they will eat them.
Know you food, know your farmers, and know your kitchen.
I think about food literally all day every day. It’s a thing.
Quebec City is the most European of any city in North America; they speak French all the time. There is a part of town called Old Quebec which is really like being in France. The architecture is just gorgeous, food, shopping. I’d say Quebec City is the most beautiful city in North America I’ve seen.
In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.
I’m into very colorful food. Obviously lots of flavor, but I think we eat with our eyes first, so it has to look great. The presentation has to be great.
Organic food is the best for you, and I’m eating the best, a lot of fresh vegetables. I also keep myself hydrated. It’s all made a big difference to my performance in the gym.
I love comfort food – it’s the basis of everything.
Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity.
Yes, people need food and education. But one of the cornerstones of any society is a well-functioning legal system.
The problem is not actual number of calories we are producing – we have food waste issues. The problem is industrial food.
Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.
By the way, the food in prison was disgusting. Like, baked beans every day for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Mushy food is a form of sensory deprivation. In the same way that a dark, silent room will eventually drive you to hallucinate, the mind rebels against bland, single-texture foods, edibles that do not engage the oral device.
The problem is when that fun stuff becomes the habit. And I think that’s what’s happened in our culture. Fast food has become the everyday meal.
I know I have eaten more good food, drunk more beer and fine wine, had more friends, and seen more of the world than most men ever will.
Wine is bottled poetry.
Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.
I’ve always been intemperate in my affection for food.
I never eat in a restaurant that’s over a hundred feet off the ground and won’t stand still.
Without sound conservation and management measures, fisheries will quickly become depleted and a basic component of global food security will be lost.
I’ve pretty much always been on a diet since I was born. And the women in my family struggle, so I find the less I think about food, in a way, the happier I am. In general, I think I eat less the less I think about it.
There’s nothing more romantic than Italian food.
You can’t make a souffle rise twice.
Food recommendations are a must, but be careful. A friend went to a cafe I’d suggested and got food poisoning.
In every aspect of my life, I live under the protection of and in accordance to the laws of this nation. At the end of the day, it’s a wildlife biological fact and a conservation fact that the game must be managed. There’s only so much habitat, i.e. food, out there.
I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead.
My dog doesn’t worry about the meaning of life. She may worry if she doesn’t get her breakfast, but she doesn’t sit around worrying about whether she will get fulfilled or liberated or enlightened. As long as she gets some food and a little affection, her life is fine.
Jiro Ono serves Edo-style traditional sushi, the same 20 or 30 pieces he’s been making his whole life, and he’s still unsatisfied with the quality and every day wakes up and trains to make the best. And that is as close to a religious experience in food as one is likely to get.
I eat soup noodles for comfort. In fact, noodles of any kind. It’s a food that is very easy to eat; it’s very soothing and comfortable, too. If I could choose any, I’d say buckwheat was my favourite: it has a very good flavour and is healthy, too.
Not like Chinese food, where you eat it and then you feel hungry an hour later.
It was tough times in Ohio when we lived there. My dad was between unemployed and just selling random knickknacks at a flea market. My mom was a cashier at a Chinese food restaurant. They both had awesome careers back in Taiwan, and they came here for my sister and I.
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
If you’re a vegan fast food joint in L.A., you just don’t speak the same language as the heartland.
If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?
When I tour, I stuff fridges full of organic food and stick to that.
Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.
In terms of diet, my parents had a restaurant business so I don’t eat any junk food – they taught me to appreciate good food.
I generally only eat one meal a day, which is pretty unusual for a restaurant reviewer. It’s not that I have a problem with food; I’ll eat anything that doesn’t involve a bet, a dare, or an initiation ceremony.
I love food and I love everything involved with food. I love the fun of it. I love restaurants. I love cooking, although I don’t cook very much. I love kitchens.
It’s fun for me to go on other folks‘ talk shows. When you’ve endured the ups and downs and tensions and pitfalls of hosting, being a guest is a piece of angel food.
Too many people just eat to consume calories. Try dining for a change.
My advice for any entrepreneur or innovator is to get into the food industry in some form so you have a front-row seat to what’s going on.
I love Spanish food. My diet is the Mediterranean diet, which is good food. I eat well.
I grew up in Austria, and for me real comfort food is Wiener Schnitzel. Wiener Schnitzel and mashed potatoes because it reminds me of my youth… It reminds me when I grow up and it feels very comforting.
If someone else is paying for it, food just tastes a lot better.
Food is a lens for culture.
If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.
Maybe a person’s time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food.
I am not Jewish, but I think that America invented nothing so fine as deli food.
Sometimes a little comfort food can go a long way.
Understand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it – not just the sirloin but also all those wonderful tough little bits.
I am a big car enthusiast. I totally understand guys like Jay Leno who have a thousand cars. But asking me my favorite car would be like asking my favorite song or favorite food – it changes everyday.
Every major food company now has an organic division. There’s more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before.
I like junk food, French fries, hamburgers – I love it.
I think my attitude has always been to put food on the table.
Miss Child is never bashful with butter.
Look for the light. Look for it in everything. Look for it in yourself, in your children, in your job, and in your dreams. Look for it in the food you eat and in the people you surround yourself with.
The food and the people in Thailand never let you down and Bangkok is an astonishing place – the culture’s lovely and gentle.
I am the kind of person who really will drive hours for a bowl of chili. I’m not a three-star restaurant kind of a person; I’m just a food person.
Being a Punjabi, it is very hard to say this, but Punjabi food is very overrated.
The most successful person is the one who is most inspired. That is true in food and in life.
You’re never going to be bulletproof, but if you’re feeding yourself good food and making sure you’re eating the right supplements, I think you reduce the chances of getting any niggling injuries.
I’m at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I’ve just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.
Being nerdy just means being passionate about something, including everyone – the coolest people on Earth are passionate and therefore nerdy about something whatever it is, whether it’s sports, or gaming, or technology, or fashion, or beauty, or food, or whatever.
I think Australian food is probably some of the best in the world.
Cooking is all about people. Food is maybe the only universal thing that really has the power to bring everyone together. No matter what culture, everywhere around the world, people get together to eat.
I’ve realized that I’m more important than food is. I love a big slice of pizza, but I love myself more. Being thin is about changing the way you think about yourself. It’s about saying that you deserve to be healthy.
If you see a black family, it’s looting, but if it’s a white family they are looking for food.
Civilization depends on our expanding ability to produce food efficiently, which has markedly accelerated thanks to science and technology.
I don’t avoid any particular food. But I don’t eat too much.
The future of food security will depend on a combination of the ecological prudence of the past and the technological advances of today.
It’s coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It’s not just climate change; it’s sheer space, places to grow food for this enormous horde. Either we limit our population growth or the natural world will do it for us, and the natural world is doing it for us right now.
We were raised in an Italian-American household, although we didn’t speak Italian in the house. We were very proud of being Italian, and had Italian music, ate Italian food.
It is the food which you furnish to your mind that determines the whole character of your life.
It is not difficult now to make good food because we have sophisticated equipment and refined ingredients. Being innovative also helps you. It sets you apart from other chefs. But taste is king.
Making food is a wonderful way to spend a Friday night.
The 1 to 2 billion poorest in the world, who don’t have food for the day, suffer from the worst disease: globalization deficiency. The way globalization is occurring could be much better, but the worst thing is not being part of it. For those people, we need to support good civil societies and governments.
I have very high standards for every part of life – my work, my relationships, food, love. I can’t just pretend.
Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.
God created the universe in such a manner that all in common might derive their food from it, and that the Earth should also be a property common to all.
Why should blacks feel elated about seeing men walk on the moon when millions of poor blacks and whites don’t have enough money to buy food to eat on earth?
I love educating myself on different cultures‘ dishes and foods that are important and celebrated within that culture. I also think food brings people together. It’s unifying!
I feel really bad for people who aren’t insane over food.
Food can be expressive and therefore food can be art.
But it’s really hard to eat good when you’re traveling because you see fast food and you want to go to this restaurant and that restaurant.
And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.
When I’m back in New York – and this is a terrible thing to complain about – I eat a lot more really, really good food than perhaps I’d like to. So many of my friends are really good chefs. It’s kind of like being in the Mafia.
Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.
By eating many fruits and vegetables in place of fast food and junk food, people could avoid obesity.
We have food deserts in our cities. We know that the distance you live from a supplier of fresh produce is one of the best predictors of your health. And in the inner city, people don’t have grocery stores. So we have to figure out a way of getting supermarkets and farmers markets into the inner cities.
The environmentalists say capitalism is killing our oceans, air, land, and forests. Capitalists argue that they provide food, fuel, and building materials for a growing world.
Nothing beats the food of Delhi.
People will travel anywhere for good food – it’s crazy.
If music be the food of love, play on.
I tried to bake a cake for my mother’s birthday – it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days.
I eat a variety of foods like vegetables, fruit and beef for protein and iron.
I’m just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.
I remember the first thing I ever tried was the ‘eating food for your blood type’ diet. It didn’t work for me. It left me fatigued and constantly tired.
I don’t think any other holiday embraces the food of the Midwest quite like Thanksgiving. There’s roasted meat and mashed potatoes. But being here is also about heritage. Cleveland is really a giant melting pot – not only is my family a melting pot, but so is the city.
A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.
The original title for ‘In the Mood for Love’ was called ‘A Story About Food.’ The idea was to tell a love story through different courses.
I was a fat little boy when I was 10 years old! My mother, who didn’t speak any English at all, said, ‘I know the only thing is to put him in an English boarding school. The food will be so horrible that he’ll lose his weight.’
I was always the new kid in school, I’m the kid from a broken family, I’m the kid who had no dad showing up at the father-son stuff, I’m the kid that was using food stamps at the grocery store.
Colombia is so different to what I know, and every aspect of the country is different to England, and I loved it. I loved the culture and the food, and the coffee was amazing. The place that we were was stunning, and it really was quite an amazing experience to film out there.
Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.
Eating good food energizes me.
What is food to one man is bitter poison to others.
A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what’s cheese? Corpse of milk.
Why can’t it be awesome to work for a food company? Why can’t we create an environment where people are trying to push each other to do great things, and we’re not trying to steal from anybody – we’re trying to be good to our farmers and run an honorable business, if there is such a thing anymore?
The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.
I can’t say this enough – the food that you put into your bodies can actually help you get better grades. And it can also affect your performance in sports and other activities too. You see, when you give your body the best possible fuel, you have more energy, you’re stronger, you think more quickly.
I love food, and my girlfriend comes from an architecture background, so we might open up a restaurant.
Biofuels such as ethanol require enormous amounts of cropland and end up displacing either food crops or natural wilderness, neither of which is good.
‘Fast Food Nation’ appeared as an article in ‘Rolling Stone‘ before it was a book, so I was extending it from the article, and by that time, everyone could read the article.
An almost forgotten means of economic self-reliance is the home production of food. We are too accustomed to going to stores and purchasing what we need.
There are only three things women need in life: food, water, and compliments.
A lot of people believe Italian food is tasty because there are a lot of ingredients. But they don’t understand that the reason why it’s tasty is because there are less ingredients than in any other cuisine.
Get up early and go to the local produce markets. In Latin America and Asia, those are usually great places to find delicious food stalls serving cheap, authentic and fresh specialties.
I’ve always felt the easiest way to get to know new culture is through its food even if you don’t speak the language. Food will do it for you. It’s an universal language.
Food waste is an atrocity that is reducible, if not completely avoidable.
Everyone appreciates good food.
It’s around the table and in the preparation of food that we learn about ourselves and about the world.
Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.
I’ve prioritized taking care of my mind, having fun, and doing things that make me laugh. And eating well – as in, really good food, like steak or pasta or fresh vegetables or an amazing dessert. You know, ‘treat yo’self.’
It’s difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn’t available.
Health food makes me sick.
Food is celebratory. People who don’t cook don’t know how much fun they’re missing.
A good restaurant is like a vacation; it transports you, and it becomes a lot more than just about the food.
The food industry profits from providing poor quality foods with poor nutritional value that people eat a lot of.
I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.
In the 21st century our tastes buds, our brain chemistry, our biochemistry, our hormones and our kitchens have been hijacked by the food industry.
The French cook; we open tins.
The biggest and most deadly ‘tax‘ rate on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare state benefits – food stamps, housing subsidies and the like – if their income goes up.
I think the most wonderful thing in the world is another chef. I’m always excited about learning new things about food.
Never order food in excess of your body weight.
The right use of food can end hunger.
I don’t take supplements – I get nutrition from food.
Food is for eating, and good food is to be enjoyed… I think food is, actually, very beautiful in itself.
You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I’m not hungry enough to eat six.
I’ve always been a foodie. I love food!
Salt has a greater impact on flavor than any other ingredient. Learn to use it well, and food will taste good.
The mechanical food system externalizes a lot of costs like obesity or Type 2 diabetes.
People are trying to figure out what American food is; it’s certainly an amalgamation.
I don’t believe in strict diets or starving yourself; eat three meals a day. I believe in eating a good breakfast, a good lunch and a light dinner. Eat breakfast like a king, eat lunch like a queen, and eat dinner like a pauper. Your ultimate goal is to eat all the basic food groups in those three different meals.
I like Pirate‘s Booty. Prunes and olives, too. I love hummus. I can eat that until I die. I tend to eat mostly organic food.
I’m half Moroccan and half Indian so I have quite an adventurous taste in food.
You can tell alot about a fellow’s character by his way of eating jellybeans.
The food we call soul food is slave food. We were forced to eat it.
We don’t really go in for big family dinners, but Scottish people are famously confrontational. It’s a cultural thing, so maybe we don’t need to have them to clear the air. Also, traditional family food isn’t as nice here so there’s no payoff for traveling hundreds of miles.
So, what’s it like in the real world? Well, the food is better, but beyond that, I don’t recommend it.
I really love good food occasionally, but I need time to enjoy it, and I need to be hungry.
When we realize that something as primal as the food that we choose to eat each day makes such an important difference in addressing both global warming and personal health, it empowers us and imbues these choices with meaning. If it’s meaningful, then it’s sustainable – and a meaningful life is a longer life.
I think the biggest thing is clean as you go. Wash all your knives, cutting boards, dishes, when you are done cooking, not look at a sink full of dishes after you are done. Cleaning as you go helps keep away cross contamination and you avoid having food borne bacteria.
There is no typical day, not when there are so many people out there that I care about that can’t access good food in their neighborhoods.
I love Japanese food – it’s a really healthy way of cooking and it is very easy: I often just steam the vegetables and fish together, make a space for the noodles, and I have a great healthy meal in 15 minutes.
We can no more do without spirituality than we can do without food, shelter, or clothing.
Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.
I was Persian-American, but I hated bringing Persian food to school. I just didn’t want to stand out in that way. I wanted to be like everybody else.
I’m Irish, so I’m used to odd stews. I can take it. Just throw a lot of carrots and onions in there and I’ll call it dinner.
How large and varied is the educational bill of fare set before every young gentleman in Great Britain; and to judge by the mental stamina it affords him in most cases, what a waste of good food it is!
I don’t like junk food, just because I don’t like the taste of it, but I don’t go to the gym – ever.
We all have our food weaknesses and mine is snacking. I have a sweet tooth and I love chocolate. But I have learned that if you plan ahead you can get round that. I always carry a few chocolate-flavoured protein bars when I’m travelling.
I am an extremely adventurous eater and an avid lover of spicy food.
You can’t escape the taste of the food you had as a child. In times of stress, what do you dream about? Your mother’s clam chowder. It’s security, comfort. It brings you home.
Food simply isn’t important to me.
I want to be a chef, but I’m only a fat girl chef; like, I only like to make fat comfort food. I’m not, like, a healthy chef person.
Everybody has different tastes. Some people love Italian food; some don’t.
Eating street food in Bangkok is an experience.
I know once people get connected to real food, they never change back.
My brother, a businessman, is the main cook in his home and my sister teaches cookery. Good food and good music were the mainstays of my childhood.
If you’re going to America, bring your own food.
Fusion food as a concept is kind of trying to quite consciously fuse things that are sometimes quite contradictory, sometimes quite far apart, to see if they’d work.
What I’ve enjoyed most, though, is meeting people who have a real interest in food and sharing ideas with them. Good food is a global thing and I find that there is always something new and amazing to learn – I love it!
Stop being a vegan and start enjoying what you eat.
Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.
I have a confession to make – I am very fond of junk food.
Every time you use the word ‘healthy,’ you lose. The key is to make yummy, delicious food that happens to be healthy.
Fast sex, like fast food, is cheap, but it doesn’t nourish the body – or the soul.
Food is my favourite thing in the world. I always say if I ate what I actually wanted to eat I’d be in one of those electronic scooters because I’d be too big.
I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.
The idea behind fast food is great – people want convenience.
Food Stamp recipients didn’t cause the financial crisis; recklessness on Wall Street did.
