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Quotes About Food

I am very picky about my food, and I'm very health oriented, so I always try to cook.
~ Julie Gonzalo
Wherever flaxseeds become a regular food item among the people, there will be better health.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Favour fresh, real food. You can be assured that you are offering your body anti-inflammatory nutrician.
~ Deepak Chopra
Health food would seem healthier if the people that sold it looked less unhealthy.
~ Dov Davidoff
The securest guarantee of the long-term good health of both farmland and city is, I believe, locally produced food.
~ Wendell Berry
We farm workers are closest to food production. We were the first to recognize the serious health hazards of agriculture pesticides to both consumers and ourselves.
~ Cesar Chavez
doctor to stout patient: You've been swallowing your food again.
~ Anonymous
Your future health can be predicted by the nutrient density of your diet.
~ Joel Fuhrman
I've always been interested in the industrialization of our food it's been an issue for me from an environmental and animal rights and human health perspective.
~ Richard Linklater
People need help to change the way they eat... this is what government is for in my opinion.... We should make food an issue for everyone who runs for office.
~ Mark Bittman
I have been dairy free for several years, and I started because I felt it was going to reduce my allergies, which it did, and help me lose weight, which it did.
~ Fran Drescher
Now, have I ever been tempted to break into a Krispy Kreme doughnut store in the middle of the night? Oh, yeah. God help us if I had a mini-bar stocked with cheesecake and chicken-fried steak.
~ Mike Huckabee
When you grow up close to poultry and fields and gardens and open-air markets, you can't help but develop an instinct for quality food.
~ Alain Ducasse
If you can eat 70 percent raw or introduce raw into your diet, it will help your health.
~ Carol Alt
Food history is as important as a baroque church. Governments should recognize cultural heritage and protect traditional foods. A cheese is as worthy of preserving as a sixteenth-century building.
~ Carlo Petrini
The history of government regulation of food safety is one of government watchdogs chasing the horse after it's out of the barn.
~ David Aaron Kessler
The history of food has never had a better biographer. Required reading for anyone who eats.
~ Dan Barber
History is the necessary food of good and noble sentiments. It ought to give us at once humility and confidence in the face of greatness.
~ Vincent Massey
One of the richest countries in the history of the world having communities where people have to go over half an hour to get to fresh produce and food is unacceptable.
~ Wendell Pierce
Food might be more immediately important than history but if you don't understand what's been done to you - by your own people and the so-called 'they' - you can never get around it.
~ Henry Hampton
According to his dad's journal, vampires had been through some of the worst epidemics in history. And apparently, during the days of the Black Plague, their biggest complaint had been rotten "food".
~ Heather Brewer
If you go back in American history, oysters were the food of poor people. New York was filled with oyster saloons in the 1800s.
~ Ruth Reichl
Food for us comes from our relatives, whether they have wings or fins or roots. That is how we consider food. Food has a culture. It has a history. It has a story. It has relationships.
~ Winona LaDuke
I think I went to Italy initially for the art, architecture, food and history, but I stayed there because of the people in Cortona.
~ Frances Mayes