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Quotes About Food

Teaching kids how to feed themselves and how to live in a community responsibly is the center of an education.
~ Alice Waters
I felt that it was an unnecessary loss of civilian life... We had them beaten. They hadn't enough food, they couldn't do anything.
~ Chester W. Nimitz
If I had to narrow my choice of meats down to one for the rest of my life, I am quite certain that meat would be pork.
~ JAMES BEARD
My idea of fast food is a mallard.
~ Ted Nugent
You wanna know how good bacon is? To improve other food, they wrap it in bacon.
~ Jim Gaffigan
A dead cow or sheep lying in a pasture is recognized as carrion. The same sort of a carcass dressed and hung up in a butcher's stall passes as food.
~ John Harvey Kellogg
And what shall I tell you, lady, of the natural secrets I have discovered while cooking? And I often say, when observing these details: had Aristotle prepared victuals, he would have written more.
~ Juana Inés de la Cruz
It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.
~ Peter De Vries
When she goes about her kitchen duties, chopping, carving, mixing, whisking, she moves with the grace and precision of a ballet dancer, her fingers plying the food with the dexterity of a croupier.
~ Craig Claiborne
Chopsticks are one of the reasons the Chinese never invented custard.
~ Spike Milligan
If you're using first-class land for biofuels, then you're competing with the growing of food. And so you're actually spiking food prices by moving energy production into agriculture.
~ Bill Gates
Don't eat fried food, it angries up the blood.
~ Satchel Paige
The world's population will multiply more rapidly than the available food supply.
~ Thomas Malthus
A burrito is a delicious food item that breaks down all social barriers and leads to temporary spiritual enlightenment.
~ Unknown
The most powerful medicine is at the end of your fork, not at the bottom of your pill bottle. Food is more powerful than anything in your medicine cabinet!
~ Mark Hyman, M.D.
You are offered a piece of bread and butter that feels like a damp handkerchief and sometimes, when cucumber is added to it, like a wet one.
~ Compton Mackenzie
I am confident that we will see a growing consensus about the most effective way to transform food in America: building a real, sustainable and free school-lunch program.
~ Alice Waters
Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.
~ Craig Claiborne
Do not be afraid of cooking as your ingredients will know, and misbehave. Enjoy your cooking and the food will behave; moreover it will pass your pleasure on to those who eat it.
~ Fergus Henderson
Avoid fried foods, which angry up the blood.
~ Satchel Paige
We, the people, do have the power to stop the tragic waste of resources if we regard it as socially unacceptable to waste food.
~ Tristram Stuart
The passion of the Italian or the Italian-American population is endless for food and lore and everything about it.
~ Mario Batali
Even if you don't eat at a fast food restaurant, you're now eating food that's produced by this system.
~ Joel Salatin