Food Quotes · Page 451

“it is not because of the benevolence of the baker that we eat fresh bread every morning but because of his desire…

— Raghuram G. Rajan

You take the best ingredients - the best cocoa beans - and you process them in the best traditional way, and you…

— Alain Ducasse

People don't ever have to starve to death; there are solutions. We have failed if we can't eradicate hunger in Africa and…

— Coretta Scott King

The problem many people have with Italian food is they over-complicate it. Italian food is extremely simple.

— Gino D'Acampo

Before I had my own restaurant, I was never top dog in the kitchen. I've always had a low opinion of myself…

— David Chang

I learn more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes.

— Wolfgang Puck

Greatness requires action. you can not place an egg on a pile of flour and sugar and expect it to b a…

— Ritu Ghatourey

“One of the best reasons for eating alone is the assurance that you will enjoy the company.”

— Karen E. Quinones Miller

Clean water and access to food are some of the simplest things that we can take for granted each and every day.…

— Marcus Samuelsson

She often used to talk about the fact that during the war, her mother, because there was a little food and no…

— Sean Hepburn Ferrer

When you got to the table you couldn't go right to eating, but you had to wait for the widow to tuck…

— Mark Twain

The human brain is at particularly high risk for damage by free radicals because of its high degree of metabolism compared to…

— David Perlmutter

If you could look at a dish and say, 'That's something Antonia did,' that means that I have a voice. When you…

— Antonia Lofaso

Sweet peas should smell. Half the point of growing sweet peas is to cut them for the house; they should fill a…

— Monty Don

“Like families all over Japan, that morning we tucked into a special New Year's breakfast soup called ozoni . Although recipes vary…

— Victoria Abbott Riccardi

“It may be that a taste for Bittor’s cooking, for his obsessive, slightly mad investigation into the nature of wood and fire…

— Michael Pollan

Popcorn for breakfast! Why not? It's a grain. It's like grits, but with high self-esteem.

— James Patterson

I won't eat anything that has intelligent life, but I'd gladly eat a network executive or a politician.

— Marty Feldman

“Then I opened the bread. It was green and moldy and had a sharp sour smell. How could they sell bread like…

— Charles Bukowski

“The choice of ingredient used to supply the proteins to infant formulae will depend on two main factors, the price and the…

— Gabrielle Palmer

My keep-match meals: I'm good to go together with kale salad. Actually, Justin [Theroux] makes an ideal one with a poached egg…

— Jennifer Aniston

“I think so. I want a hamburger and a hot dog." I paused. “And ice cream in one of those waffle cones.…

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

I work on most weekends, so my husband is the executive chef. He is an amazing cook. I love the way he…

— Erica Durance

I do not understand why, when I ask for grilled lobster in a restaurant, I'm never served a cooked telephone.

— Salvador Dali

“Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would be writing a cookbook. I never liked helping in the kitchen when…

— N.T. Alcuaz

I did every diet: Atkins. Cabbage-soup diet. Dean Ornish. But I couldn't live the rest of my life like a rabbit.

— Mike Huckabee

“Right. Because if you have trouble putting ketchup and mustard on a hot dog, you should totally move on to saving lives.”

— Huntley Fitzpatrick

I’m losing my taste for everything, including even my taste for finding everything tasteless.

— Fernando Pessoa

I eat to live and not the other way around. As a vegetarian, I'm not at all fussy about food and can…

— Vidya Balan

There is sugar in everything. It doesn't matter what you eat in life, there is sugar in it.

— Adriano Zumbo

That's the food chain that cricket is sometimes. You have to be at the top of it otherwise you get swept away…

— Joe Root

I think things like food, the food of the south is sort of the common tie that binds us all, Black and…

— Sela Ward

I go in the butchers and there's not a lot of meat I can eat these days, with having all the animals.

— Paul O'Grady

Sugar is more present in America or England than it is in France. I think there is an addiction to sweetness.

— Pierre Dukan

I like anchovies, and I don't tell everybody about them. Almost every time, they don't even notice.

— Mario Batali

I'm a big greens fan. I'm a big vegetable fan. I'm a big whole grains fan. And I exercise a lot. That's…

— Guy Fieri

I tried the Crisco, and I hated it. Hated it! I couldn't roll it out. I'm a butter girl for my pie…

— Morgan Saylor

Sydney has such a cosmopolitan feel to it. The food is great and Australians are so friendly.

— Denise Lewis

Chocolate fondant, creme brule, and sponge cake with jam, cream and fresh berries are always winners.

— Adriano Zumbo

I'm married to an Italian woman, and I used to love cooking Italian at home, because it's one-pot cooking. But my wife…

— Anthony Bourdain