Quotes about Food

“Wherever I go, as long as I get a hot vegetable dish, I am okay. If I am in Gujarat, I have Gujarati food. If it's Shillong, it's northeastern.”

“You can make real food in 20, 30 minutes, but we've convinced ourselves that it is a rocket science. It's a shame. It's the media and the food industry: they've fed our panic around time.”

“For me, personally, I love delicious food when I'm stressed.”

“I was far too embarrassed to share the experience of Indian food at school. As a kid, you're desperate to fit in, to assimilate in some way, and everything about me stood out.”

“The food habits of the different classes of Hindus have been as fixed and stratified as their cults. Just as Hindus can be classified on their basis of their cults, so also they can be classified on the basis of their habits of food.”

“The kitchen oven is reliable, but it's made us lazy.”

“Anorexia, you starve yourself. Bulimia, you binge and purge. You eat huge amounts of food until you're sick and then you throw up. And anorexia, you just deny yourself. It's about control.”

“We all have our food weaknesses and mine is snacking. I have a sweet tooth and I love chocolate. But I have learned that if you plan ahead you can get round that. I always carry a few chocolate-flavoured protein bars when I'm travelling.”

“Families are struggling against a tide of junk information on junk food.”

“The whole action of the laws tended to increase the number of consumers of food and to diminish the number of producers, was due the invention of the Malthusian theory of population.”

“Meat consumption is a part of our evolutionary heritage; meat production has been a major component of modern food systems. Carnivory should remain, within limits, an important component of a civilization that finally must learn how to maintain the integrity of its only biosphere.”

“The regulatory approach of the Food and Drug Administration and the Patent and Trademark Office has driven up the costs of generic drugs.”

“The disparity between a restaurant's price and food quality rises in direct proportion to the size of the pepper mill.”

“I drive a hybrid, moving into an electric car. I only drink tap water, never consume food that's travelled.”

“When you have a Jewish mother who has a very strong Jewish family, it's very ethnic in its practices. Eating brisket, the food and the family and the interconnectedness for better or worse.”

“Okra is the closest thing to nylon I've ever eaten. It's like they bred cotton with a green bean. Okra, tastes like snot. The more you cook it, the more it turns into string.”

“Nothing beats the food of Delhi.”

“Like the practice of breath control, meditation on the forms of God, repetition of mantras, food restrictions, etc., are but aids for rendering the mind quiescent.”

“More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.”

“Cats have a scam going - you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away; that's the deal.”

“Food was a constant topic of conversation in our household.”