Quotes About Food

Breakfast is just a bit of porridge, nothing that will upset the stomach.

When I was living in California, I would ride my bike and see homeless people pushing their grocery carts with all their belongings, and it really upset me. I always said if I had a bigger soapbox, I would do something. And I thought the best way was to cook food - I'm Italian.

I'm not a fussy eater, but when I'm travelling, I try to stick to the same regime and just have my chicken and my mash and broccoli. Otherwise, you start eating all these funny delicacies, and it makes your tummy turn upside down.

A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.

Porridge and the urban lifestyle don't mix well.

Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.

When we are trying to come up with new health laws, you bring doctors, you bring experts in medicine. In urban planning, you bring the best architects. How it is possible that when we are talking about the way we are going to feed America, no chef shows up in the room?

Urban farming is not only possible, it is crucial. But it can't be like the farming techniques of yore.

I grew up in Italy, and our country is a country of great agriculture and food produce. It wasn't like I was urban and only knew about high-heeled shoes and purses and never knew where my eggs came from.

As the graying of the country continues its march forward, many retirees are now relocating to dense urban centers for the cultural and social opportunities, access to public transportation, and the ability to shop nearby for food and household needs without depending unduly on others.

I love the State Fair. It's an event that really brings the urban and the rural Minnesotans together. Rural people get a chance to mix with the urban folk and see what the cities have to offer, and urban people get to remember where their food comes from and who produces it for them.

By modernizing the process of food preservation, Birdseye nationalized and then internationalized food distribution... facilitated urban living and helped to take people away from the farms... and greatly contributed to the development of industrial-scale agriculture.

That's what I want to do when I finish fighting - build urban farms and learn how to become a farmer, because that's what I wanted to be when I was a little girl.

Don't you find it odd that people will put more work into choosing their mechanic or house contractor than they will into choosing the person who grows their food?

To make a man happy, fill his hands with work, his heart with affection, his mind with purpose, his memory with useful knowledge, his future with hope, and his stomach with food.

In Italy, they add work and life on to food and wine.

He who does not work shall not eat

So we find that the three possible solutions of the great problem of increasing human energy are answered by the three words: food, peace, work.

If men are given food, but no chastisement nor any work, they become insolent.

Sometimes the best part of my day is imagining what I'm gonna eat when I get off work.

I could not work for a long time. I don't spend very much money. Basically I spend money on food and DVDs.

The longer I work in nutrition, the more convinced I become that for the healthy person all foods should be delicious.

No family should have to depend on the labor of its children to put food on the table and no person should be forced to work in captivity.

If the nature of the work is properly appreciated and applied, it will stand in the same relation to the higher faculties as food is to the physical body.