Food is fuel, culture, comfort, art, and social glue all at once. These quotes celebrate cooking, eating, sharing meals, and the way a particular dish can transport you to a different time and place without warning.
“Learning about issues such as sustainability and locavorism are things that you need to have as part of you as a chef because it will make you cook more delicious food.”
“Australia is the only island continent on the planet, which means that changes caused by planet-warming pollution - warmer seas, which can drive stronger storms, and more acidic oceans, which wreak havoc on the food chain - are even more deadly here.”
“Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.”
“Everyone makes pesto in a food processor. But the texture is better with a mortar and pestle, and it's just as fast.”
“I think steak is the ultimate comfort food, and if you're going out for one, that isn't the time to scrimp on calories or quality.”
“We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should.”
“If food were free, why work?”
“My gosh, I love food. If I wasn't an actor, I could be a completely different body shape right now.”
“There are only three things women need in life: food, water, and compliments.”
“I'm the only girl on The Food Network who grills - I have two bestselling grilling books. I try to really focus on what men and women can do outside together out on the grill. I think it's really fun to have men and women out there together, having fun, working and enjoying themselves.”
“I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physician except myself.”
“There's never been a culture that wasn't obsessed with food. The sort of sad thing is that our obsession is no longer with food, but with the price of food.”
“Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.”
“Without food, man can live at most but a few weeks without it, all other components of social justice are meaningless.”
“You know, we don't have any decorative sprigs of rosemary we're not placing little matchstick radishes onto an hors d'oeuvre... The food's gotta taste good. The concept's gotta taste good.”
“There's not one food that causes diabetes.What causes Type II diabetes is being overweight... I've just come to grips, over the past four or five months, with my diabetes.”