Quotes About Food

I love the breakfast culture - I opt for the French platter.

Understand that nutrition plays a huge role in athletes' lives, and one of the most nutritious ways to eat is to cook your own food.

The fact that food plays such an important part in my films has everything to do with my family.

DJing is really, really pleasant. It's like having people over and making hors d'oeuvres.

Everybody dies. There's no avoiding it, and I do not believe for one second that butter is the cause of anyone's death. Overeating may be, but not butter, please. I just feel bad for people who make that mistake.

As chefs, we cook to please people, to nourish people.

First and foremost, food needs to be delicious. It should pop and explode with flavor. Food should please all the senses.

The service of food is to nurture, to please, to nourish.

A chef and a restaurateur are different jobs: One is about pleasing people with what's on the plate; the other is about understanding the market. I'm a chef, but I think I'm a savvy businessperson, too.

Food is intensely pleasurable, and people are afraid that if they change the way they eat, they'll stop having pleasure.

The only guilty pleasure I have is pasta.

Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour.

My guilty pleasure is bread pakodas and samosas, which I eat occasionally.

A McDonald's cheeseburger with no mustard is my guilty pleasure.

You want to know my real pleasure? Food. I love chocolate. I can't get enough chocolate. I can't help it. But my biggest pleasure of all is exercise. I really get off on exercise.

I love everything about food; if you took it away you would be depriving me of one of my greatest pleasures. I love the whole process of it - buying it, cooking it, eating it, talking about it, talking over it.

Food shouldn't do you any harm, obviously you don't want a bad diet, but it should be one of life's great pleasures.

I do have some guilty pleasures. I'm very keen on mayonnaise, so that's a shame, as I'm always battling with my weight. But I do love a plate of langoustine or lobster with dollops of mayonnaise.

I think that the Japanese - and I do love Japanese cuisine and adore Japanese food culture - I think that they're going to plow through the entire world's fishing. They're going to eat everything anyways.

Ferran Adria making hamburgers... some thought it was crazy. But getting them perfect was a challenge. Plus I'm fascinated by all aspects of food.

Could I get a friggin' Hot Pocket around here?

I went on a Hot Pocket diet where I ate two Hot Pockets every four hours. I only had the pepperoni pizza flavour. I didn't go anywhere near the cheeseburger macaroni.

I have frequently pointed out that the future belongs to nations with grains and not guns.

I don't like being at food festivals and have someone from some weird cable access show that's all about lifestyle get in my face with a microphone and wants to know which party I'm going to later... That just is pointless kind of stuff to me.