Food Quotes · Page 606

'Shkoff' is to eat. 'Shkiaff' is to slap. Like, 'Gettouttahere I'm gonna give you a couple of shkiaffs,' or, 'Forget presentation, just…

— Nadia Giosia

I am not usually fussy about food but sometimes on overseas tours if I get bored I take a cooker and some…

— Ravichandran Ashwin

“Where you come from it is customary to boil vegetables until they fall apart. This does mean,' said Samad tersely, 'that it…

— Zadie Smith

I think you can tell the food is close to my heart, too, because I'm doing what I do best.

— Giada De Laurentiis

A loaf of bread, the Walrus said, Is what we chiefly need: Pepper and vinegar besides Are very good indeed-- Now if…

— Lewis Carroll

Chef Thomas Keller was an inspiration to me and many, many young cooks like me. He told us that the role of…

— David Chang

I see a lot of people who change careers in the middle of their life and they think it's a good idea…

— Eric Ripert

Today there are not even enough fruits and vegetables in this country to allow all Americans to follow the government guidelines to…

— Mark Hyman

“Saturated fats, like those in butter, coconut oil, and red meat, and monounsaturated fats, such as those found in avocados, olive oil,…

— Jimmy Moore

I'm the fussiest eater on earth; my husband despairs. I like chicken and pasta, and can't resist milk chocolate. I figure if…

— Bonnie Langford

[On peanut M&Ms:] It is the eggness of them. A shell, chocolate placenta, proteiny peanut baby. Life shape, birth shape, cell shape,…

— Cynthia Heimel

“Nora looked without appetite at the cheese selection Adam was putting on the table- insipid white cheddar, blue that wasn't half blue…

— Roisin Meaney

Shiitake and reishi offer a diverse range of potential health benefits. You can take all of these supplements in perhaps eight to…

— Mark Plotkin

I'm a taco guy, so I like Mexican food, and any form of a taco, I'm going to eat it. During the…

— Iman Shumpert

Ultimately, I realized that in order to write about food you need to understand everything about cooking, so I moved to New…

— Gail Simmons

“...if you use a standard called "biological value" to rate protein sources... soy finishes far below eggs, milk, fish, beef and chicken.…

— Lou Schuler

Faith on a full stomach may be simply contentment but if you have it when you're hungry, it's genuine.

— Frank A. Clark

I spend my weekends sleeping and watching DVDs, and eating at restaurants within a 2-block radius of my apartment.

— Wentworth Miller

Sometimes we had a clove of raw garlic for breakfast which was supposed to stave off the lurgy.

— Jean Marsh

I love guacamole and think about it a lot when I'm supposed to be thinking about language.

— Meg Wolitzer

“Here is the cake, and here is the fork, and here's the desire to put it inside us, and then the question…

— Richard Siken

I think no matter what the occasion may be, you can never go wrong by showing up at the dinner table with…

— Paula Deen

I am a very strict vegetarian. ...I just really, really love animals, and I act on my values.

— Natalie Portman

I've always had a mad addiction to salt. I've been known to pick the salt off of pretzels and eat it!

— Hayden Panettiere

Many chefs are either technically or artistically better than me, but I know my food has soul.

— Nobu Matsuhisa

I never tried to pigeonhole myself. I've been willing to take risks and try doing things like reality TV with 'The Bachelor'…

— Jesse Palmer

“I think you can make from eggs omelets, but I’m very doubtful if you can make omelets back into eggs. So they…

— David Samuels

I think that if Haiti is not self-sufficient in food, it is because we have stopped working.

— Jovenel Moise

I don't work out or watch what I eat - but I need to start so it doesn't catch up to me.

— Cameron Dallas

There must be some good in the cocktail party to account for its immense vogue among otherwise sane people.

— E. W. Howe

When I was a kid, for my birthday every year, my mother made me pasta bechamel, which is rigatoni with a white…

— Giada De Laurentiis

Nobody makes bouillabaisse from scratch. It's all a bunch of malarkey. Even the restaurants buy a commercial-grade product. I had a very…

— Sandra Lee

“I was the girl with cake batter in her hair, egg on her shirt and her foot in her mouth. Always.”

— Kari Luna

“I think you are too concerned with the crust of life and not the gooey chocolate center...”

— Douglas Berger

“Correct me if I'm wrong," said the bat, "but would the main ingredient of water soup be water?”

— Vivian French

It's been a mystery to me and a disappointment why conversation about health care reform hasn't turned more attention to the subject…

— Michael Pollan

“Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with ketchup.”

— Laurie E. Rozakis

“I actually cook and eat real food, too. No roast Hansel, no grilled Gretel…I promise.” --Angela from Angela's Coven #covenbooks”

— Bruce Jenvey

“Mom always said too much chocolate is like having too much love—you can't get enough-Geraldine Solon, Chocolicious”

— Geraldine Solon

“Julia dealt with rules the way she later dealt with vegetarians; she pretended they didn't exist.”

— Bob Spitz