Quotes About Food

In any food crisis, it is the top of the food chain that suffers the most. In the case of farmer's distress, the top of food chain is us - the end consumer.

Every nation must concern themselves with ensuring its population has sufficient and stable access to food - ours is no exception. Nor can we afford to ignore other nations' concerns about access to food.

The only things that smell good are fat and sugar. Tofu being boiled doesn't smell good. Anything that smells good is fattening.

I believe that sugar is just as important for our body as salt is, and other natural foods.

I was raised to believe you eat hamburgers, mashed potatoes and gravy, and cheesecake for dessert. In California they eat tofu burgers, fat-free applesauce and cake with no sugar. Hopefully, in between, there's a happy medium for me.

With the glucometer, I always know how much blood sugar I've got, so I can adjust my insulin or the food I eat.

A diet that is high in fat, sugar and salt makes it really hard for a body to function efficiently.

I do two cups of coffee with a little bit of raw sugar and soy creamer, and then I do a bowl of plain oatmeal with walnuts and blueberries. Now, if I could do what I really wanted to do with my life, every morning I would have a salami-and-cheese omelet with hash browns and a buttermilk biscuit - and pancakes. But my heart would explode.

We have to ask ourselves, 'What kind of world is it where a baby-food executive substitutes artificial flavoring and sugar for apple juice? What kind of businesses have we created when we even lie to infants?'

It's pure vanity that keeps me eating healthy, but I adore fried food and sugar.

My dirty little secret is that I hate running. I don't like cardio. I also really like food, and all kinds of food - bread, chocolate, all of the yummy stuff. I up my cardio quite a bit and I start cutting out carbs, sugar, and salt just to try to get as lean as I can.

You can't simply slash the sugar in food; otherwise, people simply won't accept it.

Taking in too much added sugar from highly marketed sugary foods and drinks displaces healthier foods in the diet.

I think cooking is really key because it's the only way you're going to take back control of your diet from the corporations who want to cook for us. The fact is, so far, corporations don't cook that well. They tend to use too much salt, fat, and sugar - much more than you would ever use at home.

Micronutrient-poor foods, like pasta, sugar, and soda, don't just give you empty calories and make you fat; they also do damage to the body and cause disease.

What I continuously remember is when I was a child in the courtyard with my grandmother and we milked the goat and we made the ricotta. The still-warm ricotta from our goat, on top of a piece of bread, and we used to sprinkle just a little bit of honey or sugar on it. That flavor, that stays in my memory.

We had an enormous rhubarb patch at home and my mother forced me to eat that stuff without any sugar for most of my childhood.

Studies on cherries, raspberries and strawberries suggest that most of their nutrition is retained when they're frozen, so it's a good idea to keep some in the freezer.

I would suggest that if you get in your kitchen and cook for yourself, you can eat like kings for a very low cost.

I would not suggest that people skip meals. Instead, compensate with eating in lesser portions.

Food recommendations are a must, but be careful. A friend went to a cafe I'd suggested and got food poisoning.

It will be very foolhardy and suicidal for a country like India to forgo food security.

I like to think of deviled eggs as a suit. The egg white and filling are like the jacket and pants - they're the main attraction, and the part that the egg is largely going to be judged by.

Stuffing is my favorite food in the world! I actually have been known to go buy stuffing and make it in the middle of summer.