Food Quotes · Page 237

Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one's life.

— Anthony Bourdain

I usually eat anything I want. I'm not a big junk food guy, really.

— Andre Reed

Consider the challenge when a steady diet of spinach is on offer.

— Kevin Warsh

I hope you like butter, cause your ass is toast!!

— Anonymous

“No pasta. I’m serious. I will climb out of my coffin if anyone brings a baked ziti.”

— Mindy Kaling

I’m the frosting on America’s cake, and tonight I’m willing to let you lick the bowl.

— Stephen Colbert

Everybody has something to bring to the table.

— Bob Weir

“restaurant and the view around them was picture perfect”

— Natalie Martin

Americans are just beginning to regard food the way the French always have. Dinner is not what you do in the evening…

— Art Buchwald

Some people who are obsessed with food become gourmet chefs. Others become eating disorders.

— Marya Hornbacher

I sometimes compare making a film to cooking. Some dishes need to be stewed, while others need to be fried.

— Wong Kar-wai

“to achieve a normal weight, change your relationship to food so your most-of-the-time way of eating becomes a social, health-enhancing, pleasurable experience.”

— Deborah Kesten

I crave cantaloupe like a crazy person ... But I put salt all over it, so I don't know if it's that healthy.

— Jessica Simpson

My favourite type of pizza is a Napoletana: tomatoes, mozzarella, and very few anchovies. It must have a thin base.

— Ennio Morricone

Most of my recipes start life in the domestic kitchen, and even those that start out in the restaurant kitchen have to…

— Yotam Ottolenghi

At banquets surfeit not, but fill; partake, and retire; and eat not again till you crave.

— Herman Melville

Food is about agriculture, about ecology, about man's relationship with nature, about the climate, about nation-building, cultural struggles, friends and enemies, alliances,…

— Mark Kurlansky

Here we have the great irony of modern nutrition: at a time when hundreds of millions of people do not have enough…

— Marion Nestle

It is a fact that the ecological devastation of the planet can be traced to the consumption of meat and dairy, which…

— Sharon Gannon

“For example, obesity costs the average person an extra $1,429 per year in increased health care costs. But since we’re not required…

— Kerry Patterson

I wanted to work in a restaurant. Le Cirque was looking for a chef and they approached me. I was excited to…

— Daniel Boulud

I think 'Soul Food' had the biggest impact on me because that's where I was really able to shine as an actress…

— Nicole Ari Parker

The Kennedys were very organized. Dinner was always served at 7:15, and if you were a minute late, it really wasn't worth…

— Ethel Kennedy

“The description is a good one--- saffron's reddish-golden glow is very much my idea of sunshine in a bottle. Good saffron is…

— Elizabeth Bard

I like my opponents the way I like my steaks - in bunches.

— Andre The Giant

I do not stick to rules when cooking. I rely on my imagination.

— Akshay Kumar

I eat pizza and I don't need to run it off. I just have fantastic metabolism.

— Milind Soman

Vegetables are something God invented to let women get even with their children.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Health foods make promises that only the Second Coming could fulfill.

— Mason Cooley

Leadership Principle: As hunger increases, excuses decrease.

— Orrin Woodward

“Eat your heart out. Oh, wait. You can’t. It’s not organic.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

“and graze ourselves up to a nice level of morbid obesity.”

— Dan John

I came here because the city has a tradition and is a very respected food city.

— Emeril Lagasse

I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I don't have anything to eat in my house but chips and Gatorade.

— Jayson Tatum

Remember that you need not eat unless you are hungry.

— Henry David Thoreau

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

— Mahatma Gandhi

For a late snack, I'll throw some mixed nuts into greek-style yoghurt.

— Luke Campbell

A hexagonal piece of cheese is a lot better than a square piece of cheese,

— Hod Lipson

Cooking skills aside, my mother is an exceptional nurturer.

— Jami Attenberg