Quotes About Food

her craving for food was actually masking her need for emotional nurturance.

Food safety experts have discovered that some people who believe they have shellfish allergies are actually exhibiting reactions, like itching and swelling, to antibiotic residues in farmed species.

But why does she limit her search to France? Are there no decent mothers to be found elsewhere?" "There might be, but the food wouldn't be nearly so good,

All Olive wanted was to see this day. That was all she ever asked for and she's not here to experience it. You're home and we're sitting here eating other women's food. I know the Lord has a plan, but this isn't right.

because everybody knows the way to make a bad matter worse with a southern woman is to refuse her food. So I ate like a refugee

When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.

You know the great irony is that people think you have to have money to enjoy fine food, which is a shame.

In recent years, I've been writing because I'm fortunate enough to work in the world of food television, to travel and taste and learn about cooking from the best chefs in the business.

I went in saying I wanted to be the food guy.

My whole problem is that all of my favorite things at Thanksgiving are the starches, and everyone is trying to go low-carb this year, even a green vegetable has carbs in it.

I'm a home cook and love to read about food, but I'm not trained as a chef. I'm just really into cooking and passionate about it.

I've always hoped 'Chopped' would telegraph our enormous affection and love and admiration for chefs and food, but at the same time, we are inflicting extraordinary cruelty on them.

Jay Leno is not a guy who likes change. He eats the same food every day.

When I come home from a shoot, I'd rather reheat food I've made than eat takeout.

Believe me, I understand the need for easy and speedy. After a 12-hour day of shooting 'Chopped ' say, I'm talking stir-fry, spaghetti, heck, peanut-butter sandwiches. But that's not about the joy of food. That's survival.

The funny thing about Thanksgiving ,or any big meal, is that you spend 12 hours shopping for it then go home and cook,chop,braise and blanch. Then it's gone in 20 minutes and everybody lies around sortof in a sugar coma and then it takes 4 hours to clean it up.

If I have committed any culinary atrocities, please forgive me.

Sure, I love hearing the expression "Bon appétit!" But the two words I like even better: "Let's cook!

if a man wishes to eat chicken, do you think he would wish to consume a chicken that has recently been, as you tell me, 'ranging free'? Some wild capon, capering about over hill and dale, wholly unsupervised? No! I think not, Mrs. Purvis! If Ambrose Congreve is to eat chicken, he bloody well wants to know where his chicken has been! Every minute of every day!

submission can be seen in an entirely different light. It's a passage, not an enduring characteristic, and it serves a useful purpose. Juveniles that behave solicitously are more likely to gain access to food defended by adults. This enhances their nutritional condition and gives them a better chance, when they disperse, to form their own packs and become alphas. Submission is also necessary for survival—someone needs to coordinate group hunting.

There could be no picture making," the film director Orson Welles flatly declared, "without pastrami.

My idea of fast food is a mallard.

Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians--except for the occasional mountain lion steak.

The phrase "low and slow" was coined to describe the relatively low temperatures used for smoking and the lengthy amount of time it takes to infuse and cook the food.