American Quote by Alice Waters

I hope someday we will be able to proclaim that we have banished hunger in the United States, and that we've been able to…

— George McGovern

If we really want to change the way Americans eat, we need to make delicious, sustainably-raised food accessible to everyone. Most people are not…

— Steve Ells

In America we eat, collectively, with a glum urge for food to fill us. We are ignorant of flavour. We are as a nation…

— M. F. K. Fisher

“Human beings, who were created to live in harmony with each other, the earth, and God, now find themselves distanced from or at odds…

— Margaret Kim Peterson

To a significant degree, we are an overfed and undernourished nation digging an early grave with our teeth, and lacking the energy that could…

— Ezra Taft Benson

Americans will eat anything if it is toasted and held together with a couple of toothpicks and has lettuce sticking out of the sides,…

— Raymond Chandler

in America, far too large a portion of the diet consists of animal food. As a nation, the Americans are proverbial for the gross…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

In America, we are engaged in constant battle with food.

— Marcus Samuelsson

“Our culture is not unacquainted with the idea of food as a spiritually loaded commodity. We're just particular about which spiritual arguments we'll accept…

— Barbara Kingsolver

When it becomes a revolutionary act to eat real food, we are in trouble.

— Anonymous

... the way we eat represents our most profound engagement with the natural world. Daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming the body…

— Michael Pollan

Americans expect to eat and stay thin, to be constantly on the move and ever more neighborly ... to revere God and be God.

— Daniel J. Boorstin