Quotes About Food

North Carolina was where you could have Thanksgiving and feel like it was Thanksgiving.

Barbecue is an incredibly democratic food. It's cheaper than McDonald's in many places and far more delicious. On the other hand, the only reason it can be that cheap is they use commodity hogs, the worst of the worst, which is - you know, it's an industry kind of ruining North Carolina.

I like good Mexican food, and there's not a lot of that around North Carolina.

Why would North Korea people care if they have nukes or not? All they want is food. They want freedom.

My first words were always about food - I grew up in northern California, and when I was 10 years old, I had my own pretzel cart business.

When you work in Norway, you actually have to have a contract about lunches because Norwegians don't eat lunch normally, so they just throw out a loaf of bread and some coldcuts.

In time, foods such as hamburgers and ice cream became more than just meals. They became part of American history and culture, touchstones that are almost immediately nostalgic and sentimental no matter how old you are or what part of the country you are from.

I'm not the number-one fan of the heavy holiday meal. And also, I didn't grow up eating them, the traditional Western holiday meals, so it's just not something I have a nostalgic relationship to.

In America, where no one judged or supervised her, where my father was too busy eating her cooking to notice whether she was eating it, too, my mother found herself newly enchanted by the taste of food.

Although a great restaurant experience must include great food, a bad restaurant experience can be achieved through bad service alone. Ideally, service is invisible. You notice it only when something goes wrong.

I wake up in the morning quite excited by the notion that I get to immediately have a meal. That's the thing that gets me out of bed - just the thought of having a poached egg, or even some granola.

The notion of getting pleasure from food has gone too far; we can also get pleasure from anticipating a meal, and from not being quite sated.

I enjoy eating so much. I eat for happiness, fuel, and nourishment.

My real emphasis is on the farmers who are taking care of the land, the farmers who are really thinking about our nourishment.

I always wanted to be in the food industry, so I had to break away from the novelty of the 'Bake Off' and actually learn my trade. So, I had to go to Le Cordon Bleu to train.

Everyone likes a burger now and then, and that's absolutely fine.

I'm always in the kitchen, cooking and experimenting - I love it. And every now and then I think, 'I should write a cookbook' or, 'I should write for food magazines.' And then I get drawn back to writing fiction again.

The more fruit I removed from an individual's diet, the healthier he or she became and the more his or her cholesterol numbers and markers for kidney function improved.

Food and love are all intertwined at our core level. It can be a very nurturing, wonderful, loving thing.

I eat healthy salads and nut butters.

There's ways to get the right nutrients and eat the food you want and have it taste great.

Nutrition is just as important as working out.

It makes me sound like a domestic freak, but I care very much about my kids' nutrition.

Childhood nutrition and healthy eating is a cause that is extremely close to my heart.