Quotes About Food

What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.

The food in the South is as important as food anywhere because it defines a person's culture.

My father belonged to a commune, and the food was ghastly. My idea of food hell is the salad cream they'd pour all over bits of lettuce, cucumber and tomato. It was just disgusting.

Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.

Would food be considered an instrument of national power? ... Is the U.S. prepared to accept food rationing to help people who can't/won't control their population growth?

A significant part of the pleasure of eating is in one's accurate consciousness of the lives and the world from which food comes.

I asked the waiter, 'Is this milk fresh?' He said, 'Lady, three hours ago it was grass.'

I like spaghetti because you don't have to take your eyes off the book to pick about among it, it's all the same.

Food is a subject of conversation more spiritually refreshing even than the weather, for the number of possible remarks about the weather is limited, whereas of food you can talk on and on and on.

Americans are just beginning to regard food the way the French always have. Dinner is not what you do in the evening before something else. Dinner is the evening.

Cookbooks bear the same relation to real books that microwave food bears to your grandmother?s.

Food is a passion because I basically grew up in a kitchen.

Those places I don't understand, just doing bad food. It takes some doing. Making good pasta is so much easier than making bad stuff. It actually takes quite an effort to make poor linguine pomodora.

Half the cookbooks tell you how to cook the food and the other half tell you how to avoid eating it.

The world's biggest problem is the unequal distribution of capitalism. If there were capitalism everywhere, you wouldn't have food shortages.

In general, I try to eat food without added hormones and pesticides, but I'm not so strict that I won't have a Big Mac once in a while.

Without sound conservation and management measures, fisheries will quickly become depleted and a basic component of global food security will be lost.

Cuisine is only about making foods taste the way they are supposed to taste.

I loved everything about Spain - the people, the language, and the food!

It's a challenge to demonstrate that you can prepare some really interesting food with humble ingredients.

The more obsessively we focus on what a particular food is going to do for us, the less healthy we've become. Simple pleasures become complicated.

Gram for gram, spirulina could be the most nutritious and well-rounded food on the planet, which stores almost indefinitely.

There's so much that I like about Pittsburgh, actually. The cultural district and museums are wonderful, and I encourage everyone to check them out. And the food is excellent, too!

It's clear that agriculture, done right, is the best means the world has today to simultaneously tackle food security, poverty and environmental degradation.