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Quotes About Food

I can't deliver lines, but I can talk about food all night long.
~ Tom Colicchio
There are certain restaurants where you should photograph the food rather than eat it. These are great places to bring a narcissistic boyfriend before you break up.
~ Perry Brass
We have converted huge swaths of land and ocean into human habitats where we live and grow food and harvest energy. But there's been a sea change in the past century.
~ Annalee Newitz
I'm sure one of the frustrations of being a Western enthusiast of Japanese food and culture is you're confronted every day with the absolute certainty that you will die ignorant.
~ Anthony Bourdain
Wine, like food, is so emotional. If you think about it, so much of the courting ritual is surrounded by wine and food. There's a built-in romance to wine.
~ Padma Lakshmi
Voices of Transition educates, opens minds to new possibilities and presents a new vision of how our food system could be. As a historic transition unfolds, this film is a very powerful tool.
~ Rob Hopkins
I think, once recipes become digital, pirating a digital recipe and all the questions that you have with music and so forth will become pertinent to food as well.
~ Hod Lipson
the seat of the greatest patriotic loyalties is in the stomach. Long after giving up all attachment to the land of his birth, the naturalized American citizen holds fast to the food of his parents.
~ Vicki Baum
If you go to working class, and working poor areas of America, the food sources that are relegated to them are generally limited to unhealthy ones.
~ Anthony Bourdain
I like working with the public, I like working with food, and I like making cash.
~ Amy Sedaris
I think there's a tendency to over-jack and over-umami food these days.
~ Anthony Bourdain
Your body considers alcohol a toxin and will basically stop trying to digest food you ate to get rid of the alcohol and this can cause the food you ate throughout the day to be stored as fat.
~ Scott Herman
When I was a kid, my mother used to feed me mashed-potato sandwiches, brussel sprout sandwiches; my brain cells were starving from lack of food. I'll eat anything. I'll eat dirt.
~ Sylvester Stallone
The more I fly, the more I'm convinced that the true wonder of modern aviation is the transformation of tasteless particles into something known as airplane food.
~ Bob Blumer
For Hannibal, it's really about food as art and also, Hannibal's specific brand of art. And I guess I'm a bit of a foodie.
~ Bryan Fuller
Local and regional food systems are about opportunity.
~ Tom Vilsack
Vegetarian: Indian word for lousy hunter.
~ Andy Rooney
Jay Leno is not a guy who likes change. He eats the same food every day.
~ Ted Allen
Luncheon: as much food as one's hand can hold.
~ Samuel Johnson
The food pyramid is very complicated. It doesn't give you as much info in a quick glance as the plate does.
~ Tom Vilsack
There is no question that Rumanian-Jewish food is heavy. One meal is equal in heaviness, I would guess, to eight or nine years of steady mung-bean eating.
~ Calvin Trillin
I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant.
~ Calvin Trillin
when one went fishing in information networks, one also became fish food.
~ Carol O'Connell
Calvin the zombie searches for food. Horribly, the undead feed upon the living! ...Although, in a pinch, a PBJ will do, if you eat it messily enough.
~ Bill Watterson