Quotes About Food

They say hot dogs can kill you. How do you know it's not the bun?

I've noticed the customers in health food stores. They are pale, skinny people who usually look half dead. In a steak house, you see robust, ruddy people. They're dying, of course, but they look terrific.

When I demanded of my friend what viands he preferred, He quoth: "A large cold bottle, and a small hot bird!"

For a man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

The way to a man's heart is through his stomach.

Bread is the staff of life.

What the mass media offer is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.

To eat well in England you should have breakfast three times a day.

Even were a cook to cook a fly, he would keep the breast for himself.

Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.

A good meal ought to begin with hunger.

A smiling face is half the meal.

She is such a health food nut, she thinks a grape is wine in pill form.

I am attracted to the complexities and deeper truths of characters, and I can't name a favourite role any more than I can name a favourite food!

Too many people just eat to consume calories. Try dining for a change.

I don't cook very often but when I do I try and make Georgian food. I made a hinkali recently, which is like ravioli but is the size of your palm, with meat in the middle and thicker dough.

I'd love everyone to try authentic Italian food.

Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone... Bad food is fake food... food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people's ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives.

Instead of going out, I'm trying to encourage people to have a memorable experience in their own home. We call it 'Delicioso Night In.' I invite the people I care about the most. Then, when I get a lot of people together, I like to have finger foods.

My sons, Azaan and Zahaan, make for scintillating company; they are both foodies. The three of us love spending time trying out new joints and cuisines.

There are lots of things I won't eat but would like to, such as croissants or ice cream - if I started, I'd scoff the whole tub.

Generally, Italians just eat better. They're not doing that thing where they're eating two or three hundred grams of pasta. They're never eating a carbonara sauce with a tub of cream in it.

For my body, I like high-waisted jeans because they make your leg look longer and hides this extra thing on my stomach. You can eat extra food with it because it hides, and I like to tuck in my t-shirts.

I always put on a couple of kilos every time I film a programme. You cant really tuck into a dish and then just leave it.