“I like being able to walk into an old town and find good local food.”
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.
“When you cut that eggplant up and you roast it in the oven and you make the tomato sauce and you put it on top, your soul is in that food, and there's something about that that can never be made by a company that has three million employees.”
“I like being able to walk into an old town and find good local food.”
“For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable.”
“There's the issue of hunger, and there's an issue of if you're going to cut out food programs. We should be focusing on healthy food. Right now, fruits and vegetables are very expensive. So what can we do on the policy side to bring the cost of fruits and vegetables down?”
“Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.”
“It's very clear that there's a lot of double standards going on. Should there be a 30mph speed limit? Of course there bloody should. And certainly with kids and school food, kids need to be nannied for sure. So give them a bloody good meal at school.”
“My three addictions of choice are food, love and work.”
“The passion of the Italian or the Italian-American population is endless for food and lore and everything about it.”
“'The Food Network' was just starting in New York, and I was getting lots of attention from Mesa Grill. They had no money, so if you couldn't get there by subway, you couldn't be on. It wasn't like TV was something I really wanted to do - but I knew it would be great publicity for my restaurants.”
“I love really good food and I don't ever want to spend too much for it, but I like hanging out and having really good, tasty, interesting food.”
“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.”
“There's nothing more romantic than Italian food.”
“From the simple stringing together of lemon garlands for the goddess Durga, to dividing the prasadam or blessed foods for the children first, I came to associate food not only with feminity, but also with purity and divinity.”
“I'm the person who wouldn't send back my food even if I got steak when I'd ordered fish.”
“There are pockets of great food in Spain, but there are also pockets of very mediocre food in Spain, and the same in Morocco and the same in Croatia and the same in Germany and the same in Austria.”
“I can celebrate food anytime. I love cheese. When I crave a certain food, I just eat it.”