Quotes About Food

Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness.

Original, in French: La bonne cuisine est la base du véritable bonheur. English: Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness.

Memory is a crazy woman that hoards colored rags and throws away food.

I am on a seafood diet. I see food and I eat it.

We were the country that has more food to eat than any other country in the world, and with more diets to keep us from eating it.

Dieting is not a piece of cake.

I love Maggi,' he said. 'It is food's version of a 3 a.m. friend—warm and comforting.

I was eating bad stuff. Lots of sugar and carbs, junk food all the time. It makes you very irritated.

When I tour, I stuff fridges full of organic food and stick to that.

I feed my kids organic food and milk, but I've also been known to buy the odd Lunchable. My kids are not allowed to watch TV during the week, but on weekends even the 2-year-old veges out to 'The Simpsons.'

When I tour, it's like, well, like a food tour as much as a comedy tour. I try to eat at all the weird places, the obscure barbecue joints, burger places. There are a few spots in L.A. that I'm obsessed with - one of them is the Taco Zone taco truck on Alvarado. There are secret off-menu items that are amazing.

She had to laugh. "You're making me hungry." "Me, too." His gaze locked with hers, making it clear it wasn't just barbecue he was hungry for.

I think, British food, it's had a bad rap.

No one raps about food like I do. I rap about fine dishes - like, all kinds of things that only real chefs and real foodies are going to know about.

I think Bhutanese food - long dissed by every food writer out there - has gotten a bum rap.

Really, if I'm gonna eat a meat, I'd rather eat venison than anything and I do like it a little on the rare side. That's probably my favorite meat and I've had some awfully good venison in some of the great restaurants.

I grew up in financially straitened circumstances and meat, which was expensive, was a rare thing at mealtimes. We ate meat about once a month, if that.

Food is not just what we put in our mouths to fill up; it is culture and identity. Reason plays some role in our decisions about food, but it's rarely driving the car.

Very rarely does food enhance the conversation. If the food is really good, there'll be much less conversation because you'd be concentrating too much on the food.

Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.

There is this overlying principle of a two-to-one carb-to-protein ratio, so that is first and foremost. I try and retain that throughout the whole day with everything I eat and drink.

Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity.

I'm not a big oyster eater. But I know people who will sit at a raw bar and eat oyster for two hours.

Everybody's eating all my - brownies, granola, anything you eat cooked, I can find you raw.