Quotes About Food

My old man never used to cook, so we lived on takeaway. The others were always jealous.

I like eggs. My favorite way of cooking eggs is old school French.

I think I can poach a pretty mean egg the old-fashioned way.

Unless its Michelin-starred food, people wont pay top dollar for top food so its hard to do good old-fashioned French cooking and get people to pay for it.

Theater in which you eat is the oldest form of theater.

I make sure to eat dishes made in olive oil, whether virgin or extra virgin; the dish has to be made in olive oil. I believe it's the healthiest oil that you can consume to stay fit.

Maybe some people will not agree, but I like to eat sardines in the morning for breakfast. I think some people will have a hard time eating sardines in olive oil or pickled sardines for breakfast. I guess that is why I am still single.

Jamie Oliver's books are the best. I love Jamie. Bless him!

I think that Jamie Oliver did more good for the nation's cooking when he was just cooking than by telling us what chickens we should eat.

Once in a while I'll order an omelet, 'cause I'm not very good at making omelets.

I have to have breakfast, and breakfast has to be eggs, whether in omelet form, hard-boiled, or over-easy.

I know once people get connected to real food, they never change back.

My favourite thing is cooking for my friends. There are 13 of us who all met at university. They come round once a week, and I make a huge lasagne.

Get your friends together, even if it's just once a week or twice a month, and make dinner together.

I gasp for air if I don't get to breathe Italian air once a year.

I guess after college, I just got really into food. I also think going on the road doing stand-up makes you more into food. Because when you travel like that, one of the things to do is find really good places to eat.

We're social beings, and food is one of the things we can use three times a day to connect with family or with friends.

I did this book 'Harvest for Hope,' and I learned so much about food. And one thing I learned is that we have the guts not of a carnivore, but of an herbivore. Herbivore guts are very long because they have to get the last bit of nutrition out of leaves and things.

The thing about Louisiana food is that it's really good for about three months, but they only know how to make one thing, and they dip whatever they can find in a bucket of oil.

I love onions. I cook with them all the time.

When our employees walk in in the morning, they see food. They have to cook. At the restaurants, we chop cilantro, onions, and limes two or three times a day. We make guacamole from fresh avocados.

I love liver and onions or a roast dinner.

My first memory is being taken for Indian food at the Cookham Tandoori on the High Street - I remember the poppadoms, the onions, the chicken tikka.

I have always said there is only one thing that can bring our nation down - our dependence on foreign countries for food and energy. Agriculture is the backbone of our economy.