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Quotes About Food

My earliest food memory is being starving hungry after swimming. I think that's quite common with children: the second you're out of the water you want to have a Twix, a cup of tea and chips and salty stuff.
~ Sara Pascoe
I feel like I can teach anyone to cook a dinner.
~ Anne Burrell
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
With the chronic obesity in America, it's more important than ever to not only feed kids healthy foods but to teach them how to make healthy choices on their own.
~ Jennie Garth
Taste is developed by the diversity of the products one can sample. I think our children today may be missing an education about food. We must teach them to know their cuisine and to know the equilibrium of nourishment. That is very important for health.
~ Joel Robuchon
We all need to know how to cook. I can buy a chicken and have many meals come from it. Is it affordable? Yes. Cheap? No. I want to pay the farmers the right price for food. They deserve it. They are the most important people in the country besides our teachers.
~ Alice Waters
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.
~ Ainsley Harriott
I had a brief experience in the food industry. I was a bus boy in a Mexican restaurant in Arizona, scraping re-fried beans off people's plates. It teaches you a bit of humility and the importance of a good deodorant.
~ Wentworth Miller
An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.
~ A. J. Liebling
I would love to encourage all my teammates to eat the best way they possibly can. High school athletes. Now, that's not the way our food system in America is set up. It's very different. They have a food pyramid, and I disagree with that. I disagree with a lot of things that people tell you to do.
~ Tom Brady
If you cannot eat what you want in the South, life is not worth living.
~ Rick Bragg
I do not need a statue or a flag to know that I am Southern. I can taste it in the food, feel it in my heart, and hear it in the language of my kin.
~ Rick Bragg
everyone went and had some turkey and cornbread dressing, and hot biscuits, and mashed potatoes running with butter, and when they prayed, they thanked God for the good fortune that had found their boy, who had sense enough to know that if you're going to be hit by a train, you have to go stand on the tracks in Memphis, Tennessee. Amen.
~ Rick Bragg
boudin, the sausage made from pork, liver, onions, rice
~ Rick Bragg
just cook better than anybody else. A Cajun knows he's got it right when, after it's done, you can throw away the meat and just eat the gravy.
~ Rick Bragg
Ever had a flying burrito hit you? Well, it's a deadly projectile, right up there with cannonballs and grenades.
~ Rick Riordan
My mom taught me how to make grilled chicken, and I bake, too.
~ Rico Rodriguez
I've known what it is to be hungry, but I always went right to a restaurant.
~ Ring Lardner
Men like to barbecue. Men will cook if danger is involved.
~ Rita Rudner
My husband thinks that health food is anything he eats before the expiration date.
~ Rita Rudner
Most turkeys taste better the day after. My mother's tasted better the day before.
~ Rita Rudner
My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow.
~ Rita Rudner
Whipped cream isn't whipped cream at all unless it's been whipped with whips. Just as a poached egg isn't a poached egg unless it's been stolen from the woods in the dead of night!
~ Roald
The one thing that I'm in charge of in this wedding is the food.
~ Rob Mariano