Quotes About Food

The menus that remain, for me, are really the menus that you have with your good friends, with your wife, with your mother, with your kids. These are what stay in your mind.

How we treat food is how we treat ourselves. Eating and buying organic means we're committed to a healthier world overall. It's good karma.

Bad restaurants find unique ways to be bad. Good ones are good in the same way: good food, nice staff, a pleasant room. The human capacity for finding unique ways to screw things up always amazes me.

Nobody trusts the industrial food system to give them good food.

I think that food ties us to our community and our traditions, and it's the thing that makes us feel good and connected.

A great dinner must include not only yummy food, but good conversation.

Everything one reads is nourishment of some sort - good food or junk food - and one assumes it all goes in and has its way with your brain cells.

Food may be essential as fuel for the body, but good food is fuel for the soul.

In Africa, you have no clean water, but you have good food options. In Harlem, everyone can shower and get fresh water, but you often have bad food options.

Food banking as well as other antihunger programs do a good job of managing poverty by alleviating its worst symptom, hunger.

The corporatization of something as basic and intimate as eating is, for many of us today, a good place to draw the line.

Even people who like the kind of food on offer, are coming to recognize that eating from this food chain is not conducive to good health.

People have a right to my food, a right to my housing, and a right to my good job for my decent pay.

I am a sucker for those old traditional places, and Rome is as good as it gets, particularly when you throw in Italian food.

If you eat good, you feel good. I would encourage every body else to do the same.

Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.

Back in 1983, the United States government approved the release of the first genetically modified organism. In this case, it was a bacteria that prevents frost on food crops.

UNICEF has repeatedly called on governments to ensure basic services for children and this includes providing food where the need exists.

The biggest threat to global stability is the potential for food crises in poor countries to cause government collapse.

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

There are pockets of great food in Spain, but there are also pockets of very mediocre food in Spain, and the same in Morocco and the same in Croatia and the same in Germany and the same in Austria.

Anyone who doesn't have a great time in San Francisco is pretty much dead to me.

Great food needed more than chefs; it needed gourmet diners.

I'm into very colorful food. Obviously lots of flavor, but I think we eat with our eyes first, so it has to look great. The presentation has to be great.