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Quotes About Food

I am wary of unknown street food, available in plenty in places such as Singapore and Malaysia.
~ Vijay Antony
There are apothecaries' shops, where prepared medicines, liquids, ointments, and plasters are sold; barbers' shops, where they wash and shave the head; and restaurateurs, that furnish food and drink at a certain price.
~ Hernan Cortes
Many people see the chance to eat something for nothing, without the need to cook or wash up, as the great consolation of going out to dinner. But they forget quite how difficult it is to talk to a stranger and eat at the same time.
~ Craig Brown
I try to teach my son about sanitation, especially when handling foods like chicken that could be dangerous. I remind him to wash his hands all the time. When my son cooks with me, he stands on a step stool so he can reach the stove. I teach him about safety and fire.
~ Emeril Lagasse
My own relationship to food was healthy. I was lean and athletic with a high metabolism. I could eat half a pizza with a side of breadsticks and wash it down with soda. I never dieted or denied myself food.
~ Carrie Brownstein
When I pick my greens, right, I smile. I smile when I pick the greens, and when I wash the greens, I smile. Then when I cut them up, I smile. And then when I cook them, I smile. They call it joyful greens.
~ Tiffany Haddish
I try to eat food that hasn't been washed in ammonia and then packaged in the shape of breaded dinosaurs filled with cheese - even though those are very tasty. I like to eat food that can actually make it through the 20-plus feet of my small intestine.
~ Rooney Mara
The French fry did not become America's most popular vegetable until industry took over the jobs of washing, peeling, cutting, and frying the potatoes - and cleaning up the mess.
~ Michael Pollan
I'm really trying to respond to the foods that are in the stores and just pulling the things that are the very best and cook what looks beautiful and is seasonal. That's the way to go. I love going to the grocery store and the market. None of it's drudgery for me. Washing dishes is the drudgery.
~ Ted Allen
I am from Spain, but my family and I have made America our home. For the last 17 years, I have been cooking Spanish food in Washington, D.C.
~ Jose Andres
Love and guilt are like ham and eggs. So many people enjoy them together, but there's no rule saying you must have one with the other. They don't even come from the same animal.
~ Rachel Hartman
I'm going to miss all the takeout," Jason said later, after dinner, when I walked him out to his car. "Coach said his wife cooks their meals every night." "That's really why you're leaving, isn't it?" I asked. "For real home-cooked meals?
~ Rachel Hawthorne
Are you okay?" she asked. "I'm fine. I'm totally up for going to Bird's party." "I don't think so. Not this late. How could you not see a baseball coming at you?" "It happened so fast." "Are you hungry? I could fix something--" She had to really be worried if she was offering to cook.
~ Rachel Hawthorne
Just for taste bites of sample bagels have - fun fact - between zero and "screw you" calories
~ Rachel Vail
I moved to New York last year and I love it. It's a huge change and I've always wanted to spend time there. It's like a more intense London, and everything's up a few notches. The lights are brighter, the pace is faster and the food's better.
~ Rachel Weisz
GOOD FRIENDS, GOOD food and birthday cake. What more does a woman need in a day? I mean, seriously?
~ RaeAnne Thayne
Marathas failed to enlist the support either of Rajasthan's chiefs or of the Hindu Jats around Delhi, although for a few days one Sikh leader, Ala Singh, like most Sikh chiefs a Jat, procured food and fodder for the Marathas.
~ Rajmohan Gandhi
At night these people put out food so the ghosts will have something to eat. They put out Vietnamese food for the ghosts of the dead Vietnamese soldiers. But many American GIs died, too, so they put out American food for the ghosts of the dead American soldiers.
~ Ralph Fletcher
You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for anybody's damn sermon,
~ Ralph J. Gleason
Food is available, but it cannot be shipped into an area, so the people in that area suffer the consequences.
~ Ralph Merkle
Many people in the world today are not starving because there is an inherent inability to produce food, they are starving because they are caught in the middle of political fights and blockades that have been used as weapons.
~ Ralph Merkle
Después de comer alcachofas el agua tiene un sabor azul.
~ Ramón Gómez de la Serna
Indian Council for Agricultural Research
~ Ramachandra Guha
From his home in New Delhi, Atal Behari Vajpayee spoke by satellite to tribals in Kashipur, whose kinsmen had died after eating mango kernel because their crops had failed. 'It is extremely unfortunate that in today's world people die by eating poisonous material', said the head of a government that could speak to its citizens by videophone, yet not supply them with wholesome food.
~ Ramachandra Guha