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I could never give up Mexican food. Nachos are usually my go-to if I'm courtside at an NBA game. I always, always get my picture taken with my mouth wide open and a tortilla chip sticking out of it!
— Eva Longoria
Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me. The perfect meal, or the best meals, occur in a context that frequently has very little to do with the food itself.
— Anthony Bourdain
As I see it, fast food outfits have targeted small children with their advertising in a very effective way. You know, it's clowns and kid's toys and bright colors and things like that.
— Anthony Bourdain
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.
— Ezra Taft Benson
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.
— Saint Ambrose
Eating together is the most intimate form of kinship. By scripting a work where we share the same kind of food with fish, I'm scripting our interrelationship with them.
— Natalie Jeremijenko
A good host is someone who really takes care of everyone, from the food to their daily programme. I can't.
— Christian Louboutin
Whatever your favorite food is, if you eat it every day for a month, you're going to get sick of it.
— Tucker Max
What's the most humiliating thing? When you take someone to dinner or you cook somebody dinner and they get food poisoning. I mean, how bad do you feel?
— Wendi McLendon-Covey
I'm big on tomato mozzarella salad. That's my favorite all-time food.
— Jan Fields
Two of the central ingredients to our family are food and faith, so sitting down together and thanking God for the food He's provided means everything to us. Prayer is a natural part of our lives - not only around the dinner table, but all day long.
— Phil Robertson
I eat mostly organic, but I love macaroni and cheese, Mexican food, and egg-and-cheese croissants. So when I indulge, I eat protein and veggies for the rest of the day. It really is all about moderation and balance.
— Marisa Miller
Tacos are the perfect food.
— Sophia Bush
The smells of slow cooking spread around the house and impart a unique warmth matched only by the flavour of the food.
— Yotam Ottolenghi
How we grow food has enormous effects on the environment - climate change as well as pollution of air, water, and soil.
— Marion Nestle
I am very much about promoting Lima because I think Peru and the mountains and the Incas, everybody is aware of those, but Lima is something that people should discover - especially our food.
— Mario Testino
Food is a lens for culture.
— Dana Goodyear
In the hands of food manufacturers, cheese has become an 'ingredient.'
— Michael Moss
I think the basic thing that home cooks can learn how to do is just season properly... If the home cook realized how little salt they use compared to what's needed, it would make their food taste better.
— David Chang
I talk to trees and animals. We have interesting conversations about food, weather, and love. They sometimes can predict the future.
— Shan Sa
If we want to improve American food and make it much cheaper, we should deregulate the food trucks and the other street vendors, provided they meet certain sanitation standards. Many cities have already moved down this path, and people are not keeling over with salmonella.
— Tyler Cowen
Vietnamese food has probably been saved from the mass market because most people never master the sauces and condiments that must be added to the food, at the table, for its glories to become apparent. It's too much trouble, and a lot of people don't like asking for help, especially if the interaction involves some linguistic awkwardness.
— Tyler Cowen
I have a great love for cuisine, so I'm always interested in local food, and there are so many interesting dishes, spices and ingredients in India.
— Romain Grosjean
If you like good ol' fashion Southern soul food then, yes, I am a good cook! My specialty is chicken dumplings and poke salad.
— Dolly Parton
The Project Angel Food Program's mission is to nourish the body and spirit of men, women and children affected by HIV/AIDS and other serious illness. The Project Angel Food Program delivers free and nutritious meals prepared with love. We act out of a sense of urgency because hunger and illness cannot wait.
— Marianne Williamson
Your relationship to food is but a reflection of your relationship to yourself, as is everything in your life.
— Marianne Williamson
It was gross enough for fast food restaurants to ban, but apparently our government wants so-called pink slime to be a staple in your kids' lunches.
— Jane Velez-Mitchell
I think people are transient. Back in the early church, there was a 'stick and stay' mentality. In this day and time, people have a fast food mentality of ministry. If it doesn't fit them or if it doesn't fit in their schedule, they'll move on to something else. That's a norm in today's time.
— Marvin Sapp
I had barely turned 12 when my parents packed me off to Doon School. I was transported to a world of confusion with 600 other kids, no home-cooked food, no made-to-order clothes. It was a shock, but I adjusted.
— Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia
The people who misuse the Sabbath lose the blessings of spiritual food and growth promised to those who keep this commandment.
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
Priesthood quorums teach and assist their members to attain good health, financial stability, and a year's supply of food and clothing. They also teach their members to be self-reliant and to give their time, talents, and means in behalf of the Church, community, and needy.
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
When my family did shy away from Indian food, we'd eat a lot of Chinese. We'd use the wok a lot. I never had a problem with Brussels sprouts or broccoli growing up. I always grew up with the mentality of finishing your plate.
— Parvesh Cheena
I was afraid of Korean food when I moved to L.A., let alone sushi. I remember thinking either sink or swim. Living here in Studio City, Ventura Blvd. is the Mecca of sushi restaurants. What you thought was so exotic is just run of the mill.
— Parvesh Cheena
As a chef and father, it kills me that children are fed processed foods, fast food clones, foods loaded with preservatives and high-fructose corn syrup.
— Jose Andres
I was always with a single mom, and we never had schedules or anything. We were just Bohemian, us against the world, which was kind of great, but it certainly didn't breed security. I've gotten hyper-sensitive to schedules and bath time and eating at the dinner table. We don't just 'Bohemian' go out at nine o'clock and go get Chinese food.
— Brooke Shields
I love Mexican food, and there's a really good restaurant called El Parador that I love.
— Jacquelyn Jablonski
I love food. I'm a huge food addict. I think in my past life I was a pig or something like that, but I love eating; I never stop eating.
— Justin Lee
Eating disorders are usually nothing to do with food. Parents need to be with their child to see them through it. All the therapists in the world can't help if the parents aren't present, loving, and proactive.
— Olivia Newton-John
Yeah, I'm a vegetarian - but still, some things are just nasty. I like salads. But sometimes, they get too creative. I like regular food, just no meat in it.
— Prince Fielder
The Travel Channel had success with their 'Food Paradise' series, '10 Best Places to Pig Out' and those types of specials, so they knew there was a market for comfort food and wanted to develop a show around it.
— Adam Richman
I read somewhere that abs are made in the kitchen, and I'd like to agree. I like to think that I try to eat pretty clean, pretty good food.
— Parker Young
At school, I was brought up on revolting food - sausages, sausages and Spam - but at home, I had the most wonderful sponge puddings, which I don't indulge in very often now.
— David Blunkett
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.
— Alain Ducasse
If you can't afford organic food and are unable to grow your own, it's crucial to wash all inorganic produce very carefully to minimize the toxins you consume. Soak everything for 20 minutes in water with vinegar and salt or water with fresh lemon juice and salt.
— Suzanne Somers
Anyone, any type of story, it doesn't have to be a crime victim, you don't have to let yourself be food for the media.
— Bernhard Goetz
The most appealing thing to me about food is combining and layering flavors, tastes, and textures. So the perfect sandwich has to be toasted. It has to have Emmenthal Swiss cheese and a combination of sweet and savory - some cranberry or fig thing happening - with different kinds of meats like Black Forest ham and roast beef.
— Kyle MacLachlan
There's a song called 'Live Blogging the Himmel Family Bris.' I kind of went for it here in terms of - it was really fun to be explaining ritual circumcision in Nashville - a lot of brises are done in hospitals, but many are done in people's homes, and there's a lot of food, and a lot of leftovers.
— Rick Moranis
There was a Gallup poll that said something like 70 percent of people in the United States do not enjoy their job - they work to put food on the table and get insurance to survive. So, what happens when technology can do all that work for us and allow us to actually do what we enjoy with our time?
— Peter Diamandis
Animals used for food are treated like unfeeling machinery.
— Peter Dinklage
Something I learned when I was very young: with cooking, it doesn't matter where you are; you can always cook. You can end up in small village in Peru where somebody's cooking, take a spoon and taste it, and you might not be too sure what you're eating, but you can taste the soul in the food. That's what is beautiful with food.
— Daniel Boulud
People need to eat whole food plant foods, primarily... whole grains, fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds. That diet supports our lives. We ought to live to be 90 or 100 without getting any diseases.
— John Mackey
The people are more important than the food. We want a person to be as successful as he can be, and it works the other way around, too.
— S. Truett Cathy
Writing about food is my default.
— Ruth Reichl
The implications of Americans devoting their lives to fast food are more profound than the fact that our kids aren't eating well. There are real repercussions that we need to know about and think about.
— Ruth Reichl
If we make it national policy that we will support small farmers the way we support agribusiness, we'll suddenly see it change in terms of the cost of organic food.
— Ruth Reichl
All developmental activities for the common man such as education, healthcare, shelter and food distribution should be handled by reputed private sector institutions. It should be a competitive market in order to prevent the formation of monopolies.
— N. R. Narayana Murthy
Six months after we started, in 1964, there was a day when we sold only seven sandwiches. If we'd taken all the money from the register, we couldn't have paid an employee, much less the food or the rent or all that. It could have been a turning point. We could have given up.
— Fred DeLuca
My mother never met a gadget she didn't like. There were tube pans for baking the angel food cakes my father could have after his first heart attack, and Bundt pans and loaf pans and baking pans and grilling pans.
— Janet Fitch
There's a certain time of day after sunset when people naturally seem to feel the urge to gather by a fire or a stove or a hibachi or another common source of heat and food, and hunker down together to eat and drink. Call it the blue hour.
— Kate Christensen
Thin people release the fork, and they chew the food with the fork on the table. They chew their food slowly. They look around at each other or the wall or a picture. They listen to the music. They sit back and take a breath. They do something other than concentrate on shoving the food into their body.
— Jean Nidetch
Clean water is a great example of something that depends on energy. And if you solve the water problem, you solve the food problem.
— Richard Smalley
Food is celebratory. People who don't cook don't know how much fun they're missing.
— Leo Buscaglia
There are eight or nine leading varieties of rice grown in Japan, all of which, except an upland species, require mud, water, and much puddling and nasty work. Rice is the staple food and the wealth of Japan. Its revenues were estimated in rice. Rice is grown almost wherever irrigation is possible.
— Isabella Bird
Popeye was right about spinach: dark green, leafy vegetables are the healthiest food on the planet. As whole foods go, they offer the most nutrition per calorie.
— Michael Greger
We have more tools at hand, literally, to make life easier and more productive than ever. We have Google, Wikipedia, iPads, iPhones, iTunes, YouTube, Netflix, and 600 cable channels. We can shop, pay bills, order food, and get nearly everything delivered, all of it with the touch of a finger on a device in the palm of our hand.
— Mike Barnicle
When I was growing up on our 53-acre dairy farm, we were obsessed with food; it was the center of our lives. We planted it, grew it, harvested it, peeled it, cooked it, served it, consumed it - endlessly, day after day, season after season.
— Bobbie Ann Mason
The animal world seizes its food in masses little and big, and often gorges itself with it, but the vegetable, through the agency of the solvent power of water, absorbs its nourishment molecule by molecule.
— John Burroughs
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.
— Dick Van Dyke
Food plays a large part in our weekend, but on a Friday evening, I'll make us something simple for tea. I might have a wee glass of wine.
— Victoria Pendleton
As the graying of the country continues its march forward, many retirees are now relocating to dense urban centers for the cultural and social opportunities, access to public transportation, and the ability to shop nearby for food and household needs without depending unduly on others.
— Chuck Norris
Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. That, more or less, is the short answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated and confusing question of what we humans should eat in order to be maximally healthy.
— Michael Pollan
The astounding variety of foods on offer in the modern supermarket obscures the fact that the actual number of species in the modern diet is shrinking. For reasons of economics, the food industry prefers to tease its myriad processed offerings from a tiny group of plant species, corn and soybeans chief among them.
— Michael Pollan
There's tons of junk food for your mind on the Internet. You can sit there for three or 10 or 20 hours a day getting in online arguments with other people who also choose to waste their time.
— Henry Rollins
I know it's not cat food, but what exactly is it that they put inside of tinned ravioli?
— Douglas Coupland
I'm pro-forwards. Do I want the Seventies to come back? No. The haircuts were terrible. Everyone stank. The food was awful.
— Douglas Coupland
Real food, I've found, is actually better than dieting.
— Angelina Jolie
I always preferred my father's pasta the next day, when he'd put it in a hot oven with heaps of extra cheese. It would emerge slightly burned and very crisp on top.
— Yotam Ottolenghi
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.
— Ezra Taft Benson
There are blessings in being close to the soil, in raising your own food even if it is only a garden in your yard and a fruit tree or two. Those families will be fortunate who, in the last days, have an adequate supply of food because of their foresight and ability to produce their own.
— Ezra Taft Benson
I love food and feel that it is something that should be enjoyed. I eat whatever I want. I just don't overeat.
— Tyra Banks
I love all kinds of bread. Whenever I crave junk food, I want salty things like peanuts or potato chips.
— Tyra Banks
Neighborhoods and communities are complex organisms that will be resilient only if they are healthy along a number of interrelated dimensions, much as a human body cannot be healthy without adequate air, water, rest, and food.
— Ben Bernanke
Is Elizabeth Taylor fat? Her favorite food is seconds.
— Joan Rivers
The secret of food lies in memory - of thinking and then knowing what the taste of cinnamon or steak is.
— Jerry Saltz
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.
— Marcus Samuelsson
The reasons for food insecurity are many and varied. But part of the problem is the global farming systems.
— Marcus Samuelsson
I had a long-lasting love affair with the flavors from Japan and the hustling New York street vendors. And, of course, a life-changing return to Ethiopia has made huge impacts on my life in food.
— Marcus Samuelsson
I'm frugal. I'm not a very acquisitive woman. I never waste food. If you prepare your own food, you engage with the world, it tastes alive. It tastes good.
— Vivienne Westwood
I love food, and I'm a chronic over-orderer at restaurants.
— Shakira
We take food for granted, but it isn't a luxury for many people.
— Christina Aguilera
The growth of the company and the license that Starbucks has is to participate in other food and beverage opportunities. We have a global business... and in many parts of the world, tea is much, much bigger than coffee, and we're going to bring tea and bring our capability and our understanding of what we've done for coffee to tea.
— Howard Schultz
Being on food stamps can be demeaning. Cashiers know the difference between the new plastic SNAP cards and a credit card. Some food stamp recipients say some cashiers have made them feel uncomfortable and embarrassed.
— Donna Brazile
Why not add benefits for making healthy food choices, provide a transition bonus for getting off food stamps, or increase job training opportunities and income - raising minimum wage?
— Donna Brazile
A year after winning the Oscar, almost to the day, I was directing a dog food commercial.
— Peter Capaldi
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.
— Thomas Sowell
When children are exposed to advertisements for unhealthy food, they will, in turn, consume significantly unhealthier rather than healthy calories as a result.
— Chuck Norris
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.
— Anthony Bourdain
People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue.
— Michael Pollan
A program to make municipal composting of food and yard waste mandatory and then distributing the compost free to area farmers would shrink America's garbage heap, cut the need for irrigation and fossil-fuel fertilizers in agriculture, and improve the nutritional quality of the American diet.
— Michael Pollan
French cooking is really the result of peasants figuring out how to extract flavor from pedestrian ingredients. So most of the food that we think of as elite didn't start out that way.
— Michael Pollan
If we're eating industrially, if we're letting large corporations, fast food chains, cook our food, we're going to have a huge, industrialized, monoculture agriculture because big likes to buy from big. So I realized, wow, how we cook or whether we cook has a huge bearing on what kind of agriculture we're going to have.
— Michael Pollan
The first step in reforming appetite is going from processed food to real food. Then, if you can afford organic or grass-fed, fantastic. But the first step is moving from processed industrial food to the real thing.
— Michael Pollan
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 love oatmeal. To me, it's not boring. I agree that ordinary oatmeal is very boring, but not the steel-cut Irish kind - the kind that pops in your mouth when you bite into it in little glorious bursts like a sort of gummy champagne.
— Alan Alda
I'm just sick of food going in the garbage.
— Tom Douglas
I love dogs. They live in the moment and don't care about anything except affection and food. They're loyal and happy. Humans are just too damn complicated.
— David Duchovny
All the time people ask me, like, 'Oh my God, what did you do to get ready for the red carpet?' And I'm like, 'I just had Thai food.' I love to work out and do cardio and have a healthy, active lifestyle, but I also am not going to, like, freak out over food.
— Ashley Tisdale
Children are amazingly adaptable. What would be grotesquely abnormal became my normality in the prisoner of war camps. It became routine for me to line up three times a day to eat lousy food in a noisy mess hall. It became normal for me to go with my father to bathe in a mass shower.
— George Takei
I only eat healthy food, and I only want healthy love!
— Jillian Michaels
The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.
— Nathan Myhrvold
If you talk about sous-vide, then you have to talk about food safety, and microbiology, and heat.
— Nathan Myhrvold
I always say, 'There's a difference between cooked food and McDonald's.' Your mom's homemade dinner - you enjoy this more than you enjoy the fast food that comes along and goes, and I strive to make homemade dinner every time I put out an album.
— Estelle
When I started, you had cochineal food colouring that would turn things pink, but you could never make it red. Now, red is no problem - and if you look at supermarket bakery sections since 'Bake Off' began, you can get everything.
— Mary Berry
I love Michel Roux, Jr., and James Martin - the chefs who are experts in their own right, like Rick Stein on fish. But I don't watch them very much because I don't think it's fair for my husband to be in a total food environment all the time! So we watch programmes about gardening more.
— Mary Berry
The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body.
— Pat Buchanan
My favourite thing in the world is going out to get Chinese food, then coming home and renting a movie.
— Bindi Irwin
The workers who harvest our food have been systematically denied the basic rights that are granted to all other American workers. They can be fired for trying to form a union or for attempting to improve their working conditions. They are not eligible for overtime pay, disability, or even unemployment insurance.
— Eric Schneiderman
The best food is in Chicago. There are great restaurants everywhere, from fancy places to burger joints.
— Steve Carell
From cheesecake on a stick to meat skewers to deep-fried bananas on a stick - there are no plates anymore. In Los Angeles, everything has become a corn dog. Actually, corn dogs still work. But most other food should be stickless.
— Steve Carell
Why is it when we have a bad experience with a product, we assume it is us, but a bad experience with food, we blame the food?!
— Jonathan Ive
I like being able to walk into an old town and find good local food.
— Sienna Miller
Italy will always have the best food.
— Diane von Furstenberg
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.
— David Lynch
Animals' taste systems are specialized for the niche they occupy in the environment. That includes us. As hunters and foragers of the dry savannah, our earliest forebears evolved a taste for important but scarce nutrients: salt and high-energy fats and sugars. That, in a nutshell, explains the widespread popularity of junk food.
— Mary Roach
My idea of good living is not about eating high on the hog. Rather, to me, good living means understanding how food connects us to the earth.
— Ruth Reichl
If you go back in American history, oysters were the food of poor people. New York was filled with oyster saloons in the 1800s.
— Ruth Reichl
Every two months, I allow myself a splurge day where I eat thick, doughy pizza from Pizzeria Uno or an ice cream sundae from my store with birthday-cake ice cream, Marshmallow Fluff, and toppings mixed in.
— Dylan Lauren
We do take seriously our responsibility, and growing ability, to educate people about healthy eating and giving them greater access to nourishing and affordable fresh food.
— John Mackey
In fact, in many ways my mother was quite hippy-dippy, serving macrobiotic food and reading 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.'
— Kristin Scott Thomas
I like serving family-style or setting up a buffet. Everyone just goes to town, scoops their own food, and mixes their own drinks. You know how people love to come and watch you in the kitchen now and talk your ear off? If you give them something to do and something to drink, they don't do that as much.
— Chrissy Teigen
Food isn't like anything else. It's something precious. It's not a commodity.
— Alice Waters
I really like having someone who knows about food and what goes well together make a meal for me.
— Alice Waters
My goal was to be able to be alone without food, sugar, phone, men, TV, anything and to feel O.K. about myself.
— Debbie Ford
I love food. I mean, I really love food. I take pictures of my finest, funniest and most fascinating dishes, post them on Twitter, and send them to friends. I treat menus like classic literature, refusing to skip even one word. I read the description of every item, regardless of whether or not I'm interested in eating it.
— Rachel Nichols
The Middle East is ailing. The malady stems from pervasive violence, shortages of food, water and educational opportunities, discrimination against women and - the most virulent cause of all - the absence of freedom.
— Shimon Peres
At the end of the day, it seems like there's a critic archetype for food movies, like with 'Ratatouille' or anything. You know, if you were doing a puppet show about chefs, one puppet would be the chef, one would be the critic.
— Jon Favreau
Know how to garnish food so that it is more appealing to the eye and even more flavorful than before.
— Marilyn vos Savant
Sardinia is beautiful. The people were so friendly, and the food was incredible! I also loved Florence. I spent two months there as part of a school study-abroad program. On the weekends, we would get to travel wherever we wanted, so I would explore. That was a magical time.
— Tia Mowry
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.
— Martha Stewart
Why would I want a place of my own? Then I would have to things worry about, like doing laundry and having food in the fridge.
— Rafael Nadal
It is difficult to get organic food at most restaurants, so when possible, eat at home. When not, do your best.
— Suzanne Somers
I'm not an amazing cook. But I can follow a recipe!
— Rachel McAdams
Music is my breath, blood and food - without music I would perish; the actor in me would die.
— Dhanush
There's so much importance in honoring your everyday hero. It doesn't take money. It doesn't take connections. What matters is that people get involved. Whether your passion is gun control or food or whatever it may be, everybody needs to stop being so self-absorbed.
— Debi Mazar
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
Frankly, any city person who doesn't think I deserve a white-collar salary as a farmer doesn't deserve my special food.
— Joel Salatin
Our biggest fear is that 'Food, Inc.' will move heavy-handed food-safety regulations forward.
— Joel Salatin
When I'm working, I need to be pretty disciplined, but I do like to enjoy my food. I like to keep it fresh and wholesome. Preparing your own food can be a great way to unwind.
— Julia Stiles
Growing up, my dad owned a restaurant in Washington, DC, and food was something I was passionate about. But when I finally got into it, I felt like it was so late in the game; that's why I worked seven days a week at Craft and Mercer Kitchen. I wanted to see how far I could take it.
— David Chang
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?
— David Chang
I find that there are a lot of similarities between French and Japanese food. I think they're two countries that have really systemized their cuisine and codified it.
— David Chang
When I was growing up, I was eating fast food every day. I'd drink soda non-stop, candy, just everything. It was horrible. My go-to was McDonald's, for sure.
— Ryan Lochte
I would never be able to lead the insane lifestyle I do, traveling all over the world, if I wasn't eating food that was simple and healthy.
— Alain Ducasse
When you grow up close to poultry and fields and gardens and open-air markets, you can't help but develop an instinct for quality food.
— Alain Ducasse
I hid myself in food.
— Gordon Ramsay
Peruvian food is so simple yet amazingly flavored with their traditional spices.
— L'Wren Scott
Growing up eating fruits and vegetables fresh from our farm added a lot to the way I taste and look at food today, and I wanted the same for my kids and other kids.
— Camila Alves
I love France. It's got the sun down at the bottom, the Alps for skiing, and all that wine and food.
— Paul Hollywood
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.
— Emeril Lagasse
You know, for 300 years it's been kind of the same. There are restaurants in New Orleans that the menu hasn't changed in 125 years, so how is one going to change or evolve the food?
— Emeril Lagasse
I love, love, love the street-cart food. Gyros are like a meat-flavored fruit roll-up. A meat roll-up.
— Kumail Nanjiani
Ever notice that Soup for One is eight aisles away from Party Mix?
— Elayne Boosler
I love Italian food; it's soulful like French food. Italian food is original and homey; it's market-driven, but also can be locally sourced.
— Daniel Boulud
Consumers deserve the right to know what's in their food - and obviously, most people want that choice. It's hard to see how more knowledge about the products we eat every day can hurt us.
— Michael Specter
Of course I love cooking Eastern European food because I'm a Jew, but I also love making roast chicken. I love making Hungarian goulash. There are a lot of egg noodles in my cooking.
— Judy Gold
If you're going to America, bring your own food.
— Fran Lebowitz
There is so much more vegetable use in Thailand, India and China than meat. Yes, when you go to the markets or buy street food, you see shrimp or chicken - but mostly vegetables.
— Jean-Georges Vongerichten
We would load up the yellow Cutlass Supreme station wagon and pick blackberries during blackberry season or spring onions during spring onion season. For us, food was part of the fabric of our day.
— Mario Batali
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.
— Mario Batali
In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.
— Julia Child
Animals that we eat are raised for food in the most economical way possible, and the serious food producers do it in the most humane way possible. I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages.
— Julia Child
I don't believe in twisting yourself into knots of excuses and explanations over the food you make.
— Julia Child
I love to cook comfort food. I'll make fish and vegetables or meat and vegetables and potatoes or rice. The ritual of it is fun for me, and the creativity of it.
— Reese Witherspoon
When women earn the money for the family, everyone in the family benefits. We also know that when women have an income, everyone wins because women dedicate 90% of the income to health, education, to food security, to the children, to the family, or to the community, so when women have an income, everybody wins.
— Michelle Bachelet
My mother, we were a very poor family. When I was a kid, we would be in our little room, and there would be a knock on the door almost every night with a hobo begging for food. Even though we didn't even have enough to eat, my mother always found something to give them.
— Kirk Douglas
I've been a foodie most of my life. I started when I lived for a year in Germany in my early 20s, and here was this new food environment, and I decided I needed to make sense of it. And I found it was the rules of economics that do the best job. Food is a capitalist product of supply and demand.
— Tyler Cowen
A lot of local food is very tasty. I'm very happy to eat it. I just don't think it's the same thing as saving the world.
— Tyler Cowen
I really like to sometimes go into food detox and eat very simply.
— Padma Lakshmi
A 10-pound sack of potatoes lasts a long time.
— Octavia E. Butler
My idea of fast food is a mallard.
— Ted Nugent
What I've been developing is a vegan fast food chain and vegan food markets.
— Heather Mills
The best food I've had was actually in catering at 'Single Ladies.' It's insane. I can't live in Atlanta. In fact, even if I'm offered, I'm not sure I could come back for another six months, because I'll just be fat.
— Ricky Whittle
I don't like food that's too carefully arranged it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.
— Andy Rooney
I think what I do differently from a lot of TV chefs is that I break down barriers and make fine food more accessible to the regular person, who might be intimidated. I try hard, particularly with wine, to make it not intimidating. It's sort of a teaching job.
— Ted Allen
Attitudes toward food have completely changed.
— Giada De Laurentiis
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.
— Giada De Laurentiis
If food were free, why work?
— Douglas Horton
I will never use a substitute for butter. Margarine is one molecule away from eating plastic. If I'm going to eat that type of food, it's going to be the real deal.
— Paula Deen
Most fast food is fried. Fried food tastes great, and people don't seem to care about the fat aspect.
— Eric Schlosser
The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.
— Cyril Connolly
Someone has to take the garbage out, someone has to cook the food, and someone has to clean the dishes. I want to do all of that.
— Paula Creamer
I think 'Soul Food' had the biggest impact on me because that's where I was really able to shine as an actress and because I also met my husband there, and that was a huge turning point in my personal life. So, that show will stick with me forever and ever and ever.
— Nicole Ari Parker
It's fantastic to strive towards a nice life where you eat nice organic food and your children go to a nice school and you can afford nice clothes and nice perfume and the hypoallergenic make-up. But there's never a day goes by, and I mean this from the bottom of my heart, that I don't think about where I'm from.
— Samantha Morton
I really love good food occasionally, but I need time to enjoy it, and I need to be hungry.
— Clare Balding
Meat is a big deal in my life. I do love breakfast food, but I don't think that's extraordinary. I'm a normal American. We love eggs and meat and potatoes and gravy.
— Nick Offerman
Technology is, of course, a double edged sword. Fire can cook our food but also burn us.
— Jason Silva
Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
— Quintilian
I don't really believe in diets. I love food... If I deprive myself, I'm going to want it more. I snack on yogurt, raw cashews and cherry tomatoes.
— Nicole Scherzinger
Parents are working more than ever before and unable to monitor what kids are eating at home, and schools are selling astronomical amounts of junk food in order to supplement shrinking budgets. It's a ticking time bomb, and America's children are exploding.
— Lisa Ling
Acceptable food rots while we are chased from bins behind restaurants, chased from sleeping on the street, chased from relieving ourselves unless we pay for food or gas, until finally we are so hungry, sleepless, smelly, constipated and beaten-down that we simply die of lack of will to live.
— Jane Siberry
LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.
— Henry Fielding
There are good intentions behind many people's conversion to veganism, including an admirable devotion to the well-being of animals and a justified skepticism about the crap the USDA allows manufacturers to put in our food. But it's hard to ignore the often sanctimonious nature of what some nutritionists view as an 'extremist' way of eating.
— Julie Klausner
I would love having Winnie-the-Pooh stay here at the house. We could talk of food and what we were eating next. Maybe ponder that over a little morsel... and then take a little nap and dream of desserts.
— Tony DiTerlizzi
I want to safeguard the value of lunch. For me, it is sacred. My family and I always have lunch and dinner together. And we always sit down. Food does not taste the same if you are standing up!
— Brunello Cucinelli
The kitchen oven is reliable, but it's made us lazy.
— Jamie Oliver
Give your kids a bloody knife and fork and let me put some fresh food in front of them they can eat.
— Jamie Oliver
If I could only have one type of food with me, I would bring soy sauce. The reason being that if I have soy sauce, I can flavor a lot of things.
— Martin Yan
I always say centered food equals centered behavior.
— Marilu Henner
I like to add props to render the specificities of place - paintings, food, clothing, signs, infrastructure, music, sayings and slang particular to the region and particular to the character. And props shouldn't just sit there; they should get used.
— Kaui Hart Hemmings
I love to take something ordinary and make it really special.
— Ina Garten
Miss Child is never bashful with butter.
— Phil Donahue
Creole is New Orleans city food. Communities were created by the people who wanted to stay and not go back to Spain or France.
— Paul Prudhomme
We are already perilously close to killing off the top of the oceanic food chain - with catastrophic consequences that we can't begin to imagine. Let us not, in the heat of anger, reduce the already devastated population of great white sharks by one more member.
— Peter Benchley
The knish is a classic example of peasant food evolving into comfort food and even sophisticated fare.
— Gil Marks
Gujarat is truly vibrant. Be it handicrafts, folk music, art, costumes or food - the state offers the best of everything.
— Shreya Ghoshal
I love chicken and anything to do with chicken. I love anything that's homemade. Oh, and BBQ. And I love green beans. There is so much good food. I can go on and on and on.
— Phillip Phillips
Ferran Adria making hamburgers... some thought it was crazy. But getting them perfect was a challenge. Plus I'm fascinated by all aspects of food.
— Ferran Adria
Make food a very incidental part of your life by filling your life so full of meaningful things that you'll hardly have time to think about food.
— Peace Pilgrim
There aren't many great passages written about food, but I love one by George Millar, who worked for the SOE in the second world war and wrote a book called 'Horned Pigeon.' He had been on the run and hadn't eaten for a week, and his description of the cheese fondue he smells in the peasant kitchen of a house in eastern France is unbelievable.
— Sebastian Faulks
The maker movement is about people who want to gain more control of the human design world that they interact with every day. Instead of accepting off-the-shelf solutions from institutions and corporations, makers would like to make, modify, and repair their own tools, clothing, food, toys, furniture, and other physical objects.
— Mark Frauenfelder
Primarily I'm a meat man, although once in a while I toy with a few vegetables.
— Nat King Cole
I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.
— Calvin Trillin
That's a big goal of mine, to try and grow as much of my own food as possible.
— Daryl Hannah
Sitting down to a meal with an Indian family is different from sitting down to a meal with a British family.
— Roland Joffe
Food to me, in one word, is 'creativity' or 'expression.' It's simply, 'This is who I am at this point in time, and this is what I want to cook for you.'
— Graham Elliot
The old injunction 'Don't talk with your mouth full' is based on the presumption that, however multifunctional a mouth may be, it should only perform one job at a time. Humans have found a way around this limitation in the form of food writing.
— Bee Wilson
Maybe a person's time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food.
— Frank A. Clark
As I got older and more educated about things like chemicals in food and how beef is processed, I simply stopped eating certain things because it felt like the right thing to do.
— Lindsay Wagner
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.
— Vanessa Carlton
In my travels, I also noticed that kids in Thailand like spicy food, and kids in India love curry. I'm hoping to introduce my son, Hudson, to lots of veggies and spices when he's young. I say that before he's started on solid foods, so it could be easier in theory than practice!
— Curtis Stone
It's easy for Americans to forget that the food they eat doesn't magically appear on a supermarket shelf.
— Christopher Dodd
I can get whatever I want to eat and when you, you know, you forget to eat you sometimes pick up fast food.
— Star Jones
Provision as much pure and organic food as you can, and let the rest go by.
— Laurie Colwin
I eat a variety of foods like vegetables, fruit and beef for protein and iron.
— Sasha Cohen
I really liked the food in Japan. There is something so organized, neat, and methodical about it. They put a lot of care and quality into their cooking. I also love Mediterranean, New American, and Italian food, because the cuisines borrow influences from all over the world.
— Sasha Cohen
I don't always buy organic food. It is more expensive.
— Alexandra Paul
I think Australian food is probably some of the best in the world.
— Karrie Webb
Appetite, craving for food, is a constant and powerful stimulator of the gastric glands.
— Ivan Pavlov
From the described experiment it is clear that the mere act of eating, the food even not reaching the stomach, determines the stimulation of the gastric glands.
— Ivan Pavlov
Too many people just eat to consume calories. Try dining for a change.
— John Walters
'Shkoff' is to eat. 'Shkiaff' is to slap. Like, 'Gettouttahere I'm gonna give you a couple of shkiaffs,' or, 'Forget presentation, just shkiaff the food onto the plate.'
— Nadia Giosia
The simpler the food, the harder it is to prepare it well. You want to truly taste what it is you're eating. So that goes back to the trend of fine ingredients. It's very Japanese: Preparing good ingredients very simply, without distractions from the flavor of the ingredient itself.
— Joel Robuchon
I always knew that food and wine were vital, with my mother being Italian and a good cook.
— Robert Mondavi
When all else fails, dress beautifully and throw your food.
— Gail Carriger
I used to make my own food and ate on my own in my room.
— Victoria Wood
I like to eat and I love the diversity of foods.
— David Soul
I can make dressing - or stuffing. Y'all call it stuffing up here, we call it dressing down there. It's really good dressing. That family recipe was passed on, and I love to make that.
— Edie Brickell
I like to say, 'Chop suey's the biggest culinary joke that one culture has ever played on another,' because chop suey, if you translate into Chinese, means 'tsap sui,' which, if you translate back, means 'odds and ends.'
— Jennifer Lee
We all thought of chicken as lean, protein-rich food that's good for weight watching, but the truth is chicken might actually be making us fatter!
— Kathy Freston
I made the connection between food and weight, but feeling good or bad was a separate issue.
— Robin Quivers
The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.
— Patrick Kavanagh
I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning.
— John Barrymore
Food is ever-changing and ever moving forward and getting more and more complex.
— Alexandra Guarnaschelli
It is obvious that the greatest and most important service that is required of our agriculture under existing conditions is an enlarged production of the staple food crops.
— David F. Houston
I think e-mail is representative of our fast food mentality in the United States, where everything has gotten faster and faster, and we're required to respond to inputs more quickly with less time for thought and reflection. I believe that we need to slow down.
— Alan Lightman
My favorite comfort food would have be braised beef. You know, beef, slow-cooked in a Dutch oven or in a slow cooker until it falls apart with simple mushrooms, some onions and lots of fresh thyme and garlic.
— Tyler Florence
Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.
— Finley Peter Dunne
Poor, darling fellow - he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table.
— Diana Vreeland
Whenever I'd go to restaurants, the main chef came out and was cooking for me, and he's asking me how the food is. I get, like, VIP service, so it's weird.
— Inbee Park
Groceries became a revelation: the people coming out with bundles of food. It's all like a great ceremony, and the whole drudgery of shopping has become my inspiration.
— Corita Kent
On my first date, my boyfriend asked me if I wanted to eat a la carte, and I said that I would prefer to stay inside!
— Cristin Milioti
The French cook we open tins.
— John Galsworthy
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.
— Alma Guillermoprieto
The less food, the more time to talk, the more to talk about.
— Damon Wayans
If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after.
— Shmuel Yosef Agnon
If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.
— Harold Wilson
Eating without conversation is only stoking.
— Marcelene Cox
I know my husband really loves me because he takes me to have ribs. He says I'm the only girl he ever took out who actually ate anything on her plate, as opposed to pushing it around.
— Julia Barr