Quotes About Food

Kids today are really so alienated from the source of food. If they are going to nourish themselves properly, if they are going to safeguard this environment we have and the economy that goes with it and world hunger that goes with it, they need to know about food.

As a matter of fact, most cases of food poisoning are never linked back to their source.

I'm not big on protein shakes - I think they're pretty gross, actually - so I have to make sure I eat enough meat, fish, and other good protein sources.

Lentils, beans, and other legumes, such as chickpeas, are all excellent sources of fiber.

I love coming to Delhi. Driving around in south Delhi is fun. And the food here is fab.

Food is an integral part of Caribbean life - it's diverse just like Caribbean culture, with flavour influences from India, Europe, China, South America and Africa.

The boys know they're from Southeast Asia, and they have their food and their music and their friends, and they have a pride particular to them.

For me, I love the flavors of Southern food, and people usually think of Southern food as heavy and fattening, but it doesn't have to be.

I like to think I am well-mannered. If I have the option at a breakfast place, I'll go with the grits. That's how Southern I am.

When I was growing up in Mississippi - it was good Southern food... but I also grew up with a Greek family; when other kids were eating fried okra, we were eating steamed artichokes. So I think it played a big part in my healthy cooking.

I'm very Southern in the way I walk in the world. I love to laugh. I love to eat. I love to hug people. But if somebody makes me mad, my neck may roll. I can be aggressive with a Southern twang.

For breakfast I have grits, because I'm a Southern girl!

Boiled peanuts are a Southern thing.

I am a Southern girl at heart, so I have a pulled pork sandwich and Key lime pie every day. It's a problem.

Food is a way to explore culture and ground the story in a specific time and place. I still remember the meals and snacks from my first novel, 'Shug': pork chops and applesauce and Coca-Cola and peanuts, which are very Southern. When a character has roots elsewhere, food is a way to connect with home and another culture.

People come to Nashville where I live and they say, 'What's a great Southern restaurant?' Well, you got to know the right grandmother, because there's a lot of magic to good Southern cooking.

There are things I like about fancy Southern food and there are things I really love from just down-home Southern cooking. So mixing those two together would probably be right up my alley.

I eat lots of mustard greens and collard greens. My mother cooks all the traditional southern food.

I grew up with fantastic Southern food. In Southern California.

I could probably go on for a long time about the differences between Northern California and Southern California Mexican food.

You could be a locavore in Florida or southern California. But I tried that. It was really limiting.

Stone-ground grits are wonderful, but because they take so long to cook, I usually go with quick cooking grits - which I also love. But I never make the instant kind - some things a Southerner just won't do!

No self-respecting Southerner will eat something baked, broiled, grilled, stewed, poached, sauteed, or flambeed when it can be deep fried.

I have the restaurant, too. I serve Southwest, barbecue.