Quotes About Food

We never have business meals at El Bulli. If it's about business, you're probably not paying much attention to the food.

We're going to do everything possible to make sure that food safety is always paramount, and that we work with the industry as aggressively as we can to make sure that we're paying attention to the food-safety issues.

The use of food metaphors is really well established English... Somebody is a peach, a hot tamale.

As a kid, I'd never have avocado. You'd get some melon and the odd fresh peach. But avocados? Mangoes? I'd never had a mango in my life.

The best thing I can make is a peanut butter-and-jelly sandwich.

I make a mean peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

If I'm snacking, I'll go for peanut butter and jelly in between meals.

You know how you put peanut butter on a piece of bread and the bread falls - it never falls on the bread side down, it always falls peanut butter side down. That's because of gravity.

I don't like peanut butter and jelly that much.

Before they had crunchy peanut butter, I would put peanuts in the creamy peanut butter.

I like them cooked but I tell you what I really like - eating peas straight from the garden. If you take them straight from the pod they are delicious and really sweet.

Peas are terrible and a joke food.

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.

I grew up peeling shrimp and making tartar sauce.

What's the two things they tell you are healthiest to eat? Chicken and fish. You know what you should do? Combine them, eat a penguin.

I don't have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.

Only the French people say French food is the finest cuisine in the world. If you ask anyone else, they will tell you the best food in the world is Italian.

Fear of carbs, of gluten, of everything - we've distanced ourselves from the beauty of food, the art of it. It makes me sad when people say, 'Oh, I don't eat gluten. I don't eat cheese. I don't eat this. So I eat cardboard.'

People say you shouldn't eat carbs, but that's crap. I just try to stay away from white ones.

I just can't resist mutton biryani. It's something I've loved eating as a child too. Whenever I'm feeling low, I just pep myself with some good biryani.

My least favorite ingredient to cook with is black pepper.

One thing that was pretty eye-opening to me was that red pepper came from the New World in the 15th or 16th century. So these things that we think of as inherently Korean actually have an even longer history than that.

If I were a customer, and I was given a dish with peppers, I would hate it. I also don't like blood sausage.

The federal government spends about $2.51 per child per day to feed them lunch. Out of that, you have to pay for labor, facilities, and administrative costs, leaving about a dollar for food. Imagine trying to feed yourself a nutritious meal every day with only a dollar. Very difficult.