Quotes about Food

“I hate 'foodie' because it's cute, like pretty much all diminutives associated with eating. 'Veggies,' 'sammies,' 'parm.' I eat food, and I cook it: it's for eating, preferably with friends, and I don't make a fetish out of it.”

“If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?”

“Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me. The perfect meal, or the best meals, occur in a context that frequently has very little to do with the food itself.”

“The best way to celebrate the holidays is with some delicious food.”

“I was mischievous. I wasn't bad. I stole food so we could eat. My mother didn't know. I used to tell her some man gave me $10 to sweep out the yard. I was like Robin Hood. I took from the rich and gave to the poor. Me.”

“I love spaghetti and meatballs... I eat a lot.”

“A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.”

“There's the Hollywood sign; there's Griffith Observatory; there's the great, amazing Los Angeles Basin. It's 465 square miles of insanity and the best food on the planet.”

“James Bond is quite serious about his drinks and clothing and cigarettes and food and all that sort of thing. There is nothing wry or amused about James Bond.”

“I am not Jewish, but I think that America invented nothing so fine as deli food.”

“I'm just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.”

“Large-scale deforestation can be prevented while increasing food production through better, smarter agriculture.”

“One man's trash is another man's treasure, and the by-product from one food can be perfect for making another.”

“If you have good food, people will come to your restaurant.”

“The less food, the more time to talk, the more to talk about.”

“I am a die hard fan of Lucknow food, so whenever I am in city I make sure to have the famous kebabs.”

“Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.”

“Violet speaks Spanish and understands it. She loves Cuban food! My mom is very good at teaching her about our culture, whether it be the food or Spanish or explaining to her that she's Cuban.”

“Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers and the extermination camps, the same thing as blockades and the reduction of countries to famine, the same thing as the manufacture of hydrogen bombs.”

“I am a big car enthusiast. I totally understand guys like Jay Leno who have a thousand cars. But asking me my favorite car would be like asking my favorite song or favorite food - it changes everyday.”

“Food is one part of the experience. And it has to be somewhere between 50 to 60 percent of the dining experience. But the rest counts as well: The mood, the atmosphere, the music, the feeling, the design, the harmony between what you have on the plate and what surrounds the plate.”