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Quotes About Food

At American weddings, the quality of the food is in inverse proportion to the social position of the bride and groom.
~ Calvin Trillin
By defining the problem as 'hunger', the emergency food system is helping to direct our attention away from the more fundamental problem of poverty, and the even more basic problem of inequality.
~ Unknown
Growing food was the first activity that gave us enough prosperity to stay in one place, form complex social groups, tell our stories, and build our cities.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
No, I don't take soup. You can't build a meal on a lake.
~ Elsie de Wolfe
Holland gets by on a total of four food additives; we have over 1,400.
~ Unknown
The Indians the needed some food, and some skins for a roof. They only took what they needed, baby, millions of buffalo were the proof.
~ Ted Nugent
My Mom always cooked healthy. Greek food lends itself to cooking healthy.
~ Cat Cora
We're in need for culture change. We're going to change the way you know you look at food, sugar, sleep.
~ Mike Conley, Jr.
Worry, shame, and fear can't be the energy with which we deal with food and weight. It only spurs us to eat more food and produce more glucose/sugar which gets stored as fat.
~ Bill Crawford
Technological innovation has done great damage ... to eating habits. Food is now available in such unpleasant forms that one frequently finds smoking between courses to be an aid to digestion.
~ Fran Lebowitz
Veganism is simply letting compassion guide our choice of food. As such, it is a basic Buddhist practice that ought to be expected of everyone who takes refuge vows.
~ Unknown
What makes the farmers market such a special place is that you are actually creating community around food.
~ Bryant Terry
Part of what the food industry does with public relations, just like the chemical industry or the oil industry, is to try to erase their fingerprints from their messaging.
~ Anna Lappé
I like food, I like stripping vegetables of their skins, I like to have a slim young parsnip under my knife.
~ Stevie Smith
The masses are brainwashed to the point that they believe if an American grocery store or restaurant offers a particular food, it must be good and safe.
~ Andreas Moritz
Why don't we pay more attention to who our farmers are? We would never be as careless choosing an auto mechanic or babysitter as we are about who grows our food.
~ Michael Pollan
If you eat dead, toasted, fried or frozen food, you will feel dead, toasted, fried and frozen.
~ Dharma Mittra
Modern agriculture is the use of land to convert petroleum into food.
~ Albert Allen Bartlett
Italy is famous for fashion, food, Ferrari, and furniture - furniture was a segment where the companies in the high end are all small.
~ Luca Cordero di Montezemolo
To me when a mother puts food in a microwave for her children, it is an act of hate
~ Raymond Blanc
If the English can survive their food, they can survive anything.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Food is definitely important part of your balanced diet.
~ Fran Lebowitz
The key to economic security - to food security in Africa is empowering the women.
~ Judith Rodin
Fondue is not a good date food.
~ James Corden