Quotes About Food

Peasants had to work harder than foragers to eke out less varied and nutritious food, and they were far more exposed to disease and exploitation.

Modernity is a deal. All of us sign up to this deal on the day we are born, and it regulates our lives until the day we die. Very few of us can ever rescind or transcend this deal. It shapes our food, our jobs and our dreams, and it decides where we dwell, whom we love and how we pass away.

Indeed, in most countries today overeating has become a far worse problem than famine. In the eighteenth century Marie Antoinette allegedly advised the starving masses that if they ran out of bread, they should just eat cake instead. Today, the poor are following this advice to the letter. Whereas the rich residents of Beverly Hills eat lettuce salad and steamed tofu with quinoa, in the slums and ghettos the poor gorge on Twinkie cakes, Cheetos, hamburgers and pizza

Modernity is a deal. All of us sign up to this deal on the day we are born, and it regulates our lives until the day we die. Very few of us ever rescind or transcend this deal. It shapes our food, our jobs and our dreams, and it decides where we dwell, whom we love and how we pass away.

This might sound like science fiction, but the world's first clean hamburger was grown from cells—and then eaten—in 2013. It cost $330,000.

Chickens are annoying. Is that why people eat them? My sister is annoying, but nobody eats her.

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.

The most important things in life happen over conversations while eating. We hope to create a huge conversation while we are there!

The worst day is just that I did not enter the culinary world sooner. And the best day was seeing the reaction of my one year old daughter when she tasted her first crisp apple!

You who are dead ... tonight you will disport yourselves for my pleasure. Food and wine will pass between your dead lips, though you will not taste it. Your dead stomachs will hold it within you, while your dead feet take the measure of a dance. Your dead mouths will speak words that will have no meaning to you, and you will embrace one another without pleasure. You will sing for me if I wish it. You will lie down again when I will it.... Let the revelry begin.

I think any dad who slices a large pickle in two for their kids' sandwich is always a good dad!

A butler supplies food to nourish your body, but a writer nourishes your mind through writing.

I cook this food with love and affection, for those I serve, I ask protection.

If you're still hungry, I could probably find some nice roots by the riverbank we passed," Mick teased. "Mind you, some of them insist on yodeling while you eat them, but you get used to that after a while.

In 1847 three English children fell seriously ill after eating birthday cake decorated with arsenic-tinted green leaves.

environmental pollutants in your food (such as BPA) may injure the epigenome—and your health—as much as, and sometimes even more than, a poor diet.

the study revealed that organic foods have a 25 percent higher concentration of eleven vitamins and minerals than their conventionally grown counterparts.

For by returning to our nutritional roots, we may access food's invisible power to sustain, rejuvenate, and heal—and in the process, find true nourishment.

Organic food is unequivocally higher in health-enhancing nutrients than its conventionally grown counterparts

Choose only minimally processed oils and fats that have retained their naturally occurring proportion of nutrients.

Since we cannot solve the health injuries linked to industrial agriculture with the same mindset that created them, we have to view food and eating in a new way.

a change in our food choices—a shift in what we eat each day—holds the timeless genetic secret not only to your health status, but to the health of generations to come—indeed, our very evolution as humans.

if we don't take action now, we're choosing to stand by passively and watch as what passes for food today does nothing less than change both our health destiny and the arc of human evolution.

to achieve a normal weight, change your relationship to food so your most-of-the-time way of eating becomes a social, health-enhancing, pleasurable experience.