Quotes about Food

“I wanted to be a doctor at some point, and I was always bringing home strays from school: people who were too poor to pay fees or have food. My parents never rebuked me or told me that they were hard-pressed, too.”

“Ever notice that Soup for One is eight aisles away from Party Mix?”

“The development of exponential technologies like new biotech and AI hint at a larger trend - one in which humanity can shift from a world of constraints to one in which we think with a long-term purpose where sustainable food production, housing, and fresh water is available for all.”

“I love the food in Thailand because of the exotic spices they use. Their style of cooking is unique to their culture and always amazing.”

“I'm trying to cut down a little on eating, on sodium, keep my blood pressure down, which is tough. Because I love food! I do, but it's unfair how everything that's bad for you tastes so good, and all the good stuff, veggies and green things, doesn't match up.”

“If I just cut out the food, I'd have a six-pack. I'd look like Matthew McConaughey.”

“My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.”

“It's always on everyone's list, like, 'What's New Orleans like?' I think people have a pre-conceived idea, like it's just Mardi Gras and Bourbon Street. But really, there's so much culture, the music's great, the food's great. It's not good for the waistline! But I'm actually from the South, I'm from Georgia, so the weather doesn't bother me.”

“A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible 'lifestyles' turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind.”

“I have some really nice memories of Delhi. Going swimming, roaming around in Defence Colony, cycling in its beautiful, wide lanes, and enjoying good food.”

“I know once people get connected to real food, they never change back.”

“In the U.S. there are many people willing to work on $9 per hour, which is causing Tasmania to lose its famous apple industry and Australia to import more and more of its fruit and food from lower cost countries. In fact, all over Australia there are warning signs of us killing or restricting our own industries.”

“My mother was born in Burma, but my grandfather on her side was Indian-Spanish. So I have this quite exotic mix, which is reflected in my earliest memories, in our Wiltshire country kitchen, of gran, and aunts, cooking spicy stewy, casseroley curries, a version of Indian food with a Burmese twist.”

“I happen to have an obsession with Korean food.”

“In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.”

“I grew up in Samoa, where food is an important part of our culture. I remember this sea worm, called the palolo, that would lay its larvae once every full moon. You'd go and scoop it up, serve it on a banana leaf with coconut cream and seaweed. Delicious, a real assault on the senses.”

“The people are more important than the food. We want a person to be as successful as he can be, and it works the other way around, too.”

“Almost every time we get together with family or friends, the conversation ends up being about food.”

“Ice cream is my comfort food.”

“If you're going to America, bring your own food.”

“The only kind of seafood I trust is the fish stick, a totally featureless fish that doesn't have eyeballs or fins.”