Quotes About Food

New Orleans has an incredible culture. Everybody brings up food first, but I realized there's a lot more to that in terms of music and art and people and history.

A year after winning the Oscar, almost to the day, I was directing a dog food commercial.

I ate ostrich. I'm not very proud of it. I was going through a very experimental period and probably during foot and mouth. It was exquisite, but I felt very guilty.

I never got a chocolate birthday cake; I got a carob one. And when I went to other kids' houses, I was very covetous of things like Cheez Whiz that I'd find in their refrigerators.

I'm obsessed with Chinese food and culture. It's food that I adore above all others.

I can bake. I made myself some nice French fries once. But otherwise I just eat out. Lots of salad bars.

We need to be more conversant with it because science is in our lives. It's in everything. It's in the food we eat. It's in the air we breathe. It's everywhere.

Across the Atlantic, in the scattered, far-flung, rural settlements of colonial America, hospitality had become a central concern, and hostesses, like peacocks displaying their iridescent plumage, tried to outdo one another with their creative food displays.

Eating outdoors is a particular passion - that is, eating trestle-table a la nicoise.

I don't like cooking just for myself; I enjoy feeding other people, particularly outdoors.

Labor Day means grilling outside!

Delhi's food is just outstanding.

In the South, the food is outstanding. Down south, we eat to get full, and the people up north, they don't do that.

Coney Island was the centre of the world for me. I loved the rides, the hot dogs - I've never gotten over it.

If you tell me I can't eat something, I'll obsess over it and end up overeating!

Steaming is a great way to cook any firm fleshed fish, but it's often overlooked by the home cook.

It's always a good idea to chill your crab cake mixture for a few hours, or even overnight, before frying because they'll hold together better.

In terms of what I eat in a day, for breakfast, I love overnight oats, and I'm also a huge smoothie person.

I don't like to use 'gourmet' because it has become so overused and abused.

Sensible people advise against drinking on an empty stomach, but to my mind it is the best sort of drinking.

When Nero, with a casual quip, declared 'mushrooms to be the food of the gods, since it was by means of a mushroom that Claudius has become a god',66 it

As the saying on the Northwest Coast still has it, "when the tide goes out, dinner is served.

The link between beast and plate was always made clear, in very unsentimental terms; all the creatures on the farm were for milking or eating, save Humphrey, an overweight and irritable sheep who had escaped the abattoir though pure strength of character. Cruelty to any beast was unthinkable and still remains one of the most important lessons I learned; if we eat meat, we must ensure it was raised in the most humane way possible.

It was dog food. Beef livers with onions in a can. You open it up and it looks like vomit.