Quotes About Food

Through food, Ive become more interested in the protection of soil, the way things are grown, and biodiversity.

How we grow food has enormous effects on the environment - climate change as well as pollution of air, water, and soil.

Almost all the knowledge required to produce more food than eroding soil is available today - we just need to use that knowledge within a holistic paradigm - managing agriculture holistically, forming the policies that undergird it holistically.

It's okay to take the food out of the mouths of the citizens from a government that's plotting an attack directly on American soil.

The British have such an odd relationship with food - and the land. I want the public and the Soil Association to see that growing things in a garden is no different to growing things in a field.

I was sifting through the dier, and I remember thinking: This potato is important. It comes up from the soil and feeds us, it connects us. It is the core of society.

Food is politics. You know, we have one planet. And growing food is, you're using the soil of the planet.

I thought, if I go to China, I might find food to eat. The only reason to escape was to find a bowl of rice. And I was trafficked and sold in China.

We must pay greater attention to keeping our bodies and minds healthy and able to heal. Yet we are making it difficult for our defences to work. We allow things to be sold that should not be called food. Many have no nutritive value and lead to obesity, salt imbalance, and allergies.

My parents worked and sold and hustled; they were gone from the morning, and I pretty much took care of myself. But in a Korean household, you're always eating with your family no matter what, and you're always cooking. And our food is not one you can just open a package and eat right away; a lot of our food takes time to develop.

Barack Obama's administration responded to the Haitian crisis within 24 hours. Here comes the soldiers, here comes the food, go go go... Rush Limbaugh told his multi-millions of listeners that Obama only did that to gain favour with black people in America. This is the kind of idiocy that I have to deal with in my country.

I like Dover sole. It's always one of my favorites. I like it when I'm in England. I eat it every day almost. I think it's probably one of my favorite fish.

Loving relatives and home-cooked meals are solid levees against a recession.

My mother had been a solitary chef. It was her recreation and her escape.

In 2010, I created World Central Kitchen as a way to try and help find solutions to many of the food issues we face.

I remember how my dad was so into herbal solutions and health food well before that stuff became popular.

Clean water is a great example of something that depends on energy. And if you solve the water problem, you solve the food problem.

Some parents struggle to put food on the table. And plenty of women aren't getting the pay they deserve. While I don't expect the government to solve all these problems, I do want leaders who care about these things and do what they can to help.

We don't need to cure hunger - we know how to solve hunger - it's food, it's nutrition, and it's really a question of access.

I'm engaged in food on so many levels, and I love that. So my work, my craft, is around food, and writing is one aspect of it; communicating a narrative, cooking online is one aspect of it; solving the food chasm that we have in Harlem and finding a farmers market is another one, and all of them are equally exciting for me.

I follow a dairy-free and gluten-free diet, which can be challenging in some places.

If I'm making a movie and get hungry, I call time-out and eat some crackers.

There are some things I like that Hef likes, too. For example, Colonel Sanders' chicken is a standby. I've never been able to figure out how to recreate the combination of herbs they use to flavor the crust.

I think someday, out in space, perhaps, some people might be able to grow some of their own food or hopefully on another planet.