Quotes About Food

Our brains, like rat brains, are wired so that food and sex give us little bursts of dopamine, the neurotransmitter that is the brains's way of making un enjoy the activities that are good for the survival of our genes.

What if food really was love and world peace could be a reality?

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch. Orson Welles

Food prices are often kept artificially high. The result is that the Millennium Development Goals set out by the United Nations at the start of the new millennium are not being reached. Fine words have not yet been turned into deeds.

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

There's never been a culture that wasn't obsessed with food. The sort of sad thing is that our obsession is no longer with food, but with the price of food.

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.

We need a better way to talk about eating animals, a way that doesn't ignore or even just shruggingly accept things like habits, cravings, family and history but rather incorporates them into the conversation. The more they are allowed in, the more able we will be to follow our best instincts.

I know lots and lots and lots of vegetarians who think it's perfectly all right to kill animals for food to eat, but don't do it because they think all the ways in which it's done are wrong.

Not bad in short, though the last one [understanding the language of animals], isn't half as useful as you might expect, since when all's said and done the language of the beasts tends to revolve around: a) the endless hunt for food, b) finding a warm bush to sleep in the evening, and c) the sporadic satisfication of certain glands. (Many would argue that the language of human kind boils down to this too)

I was having dark thoughts about waffles.

Holly, you look upset. Crack those doughnuts open.' 'Thanks, I'll have an apple.' 'You've got to learn that when you're stressed, an apple doesn't cut it.

I'd been having dark thoughts about waffles

You could fill an airlift to Africa with all the food generated by one dead Jew.

It's these darn barbecues. It's so hard to stand and hold on to a plate full of food, a drink and your dignity at the same time

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.

I only like food without color, like potatoes, bread, and pasta.

If you don't want women to do whatever they need to do then you must provide them with food, you must provide them with shelter and their basic human rights.

I can celebrate food anytime. I love cheese. When I crave a certain food, I just eat it.

Voy a suicidarme, la comida de papá está en el horno.

No, mademoiselle, I would not like to see the children's menu. I have no doubt that the children's menu itself tastes better than the meals on it. I would like to order à la carte. Or don't you serve fish to minors?

On Saturday, he ate through one piece of chocolate cake, one ice-cream cone, one pickle, one slice of Swiss cheese, one slice of salami, one lollipop, one piece of cherry pie, one sausage, one cupcake, and one slice of watermelon That night he had a stomach ache.

Entrepreneurs always pitch their idea as 'the X of Y', so this is going to be 'the Microsoft of food.' And yet disruptive innovations usually don't have that character. Most of the time, if something seems like a good idea, it probably isn't.

America is a such a melting pot, I'm not sure if roast chicken is the classic comfort food for everybody.