Food Quotes

We must then build a proper relationship between the richest and the poorest countries based on our desire that they are able to fend for themselves with the investment that is necessary in their agriculture, so that Africa is not a net importer of food, but an exporter of food.

In recent years, I've been writing because I'm fortunate enough to work in the world of food television, to travel and taste and learn about cooking from the best chefs in the business.

I love to cook comfort food. I'll make fish and vegetables or meat and vegetables and potatoes or rice. The ritual of it is fun for me, and the creativity of it.

When I eat with my friends, it is a moment of real pleasure, when I really enjoy my life.

I love food, all food, everything about food. I enjoy going to the market and having what's in front of me - what's fresh, seasonal - tell me what I'm cooking.

The best thing you can do for someone is make them a beautiful plate of food. How else can you invade someone's body without actually touching them?

In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn.

When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

It all comes back to the basics. Serve customers the best-tasting food at a good value in a clean, comfortable restaurant, and they'll keep coming back.

The Middle East is ailing. The malady stems from pervasive violence, shortages of food, water and educational opportunities, discrimination against women and - the most virulent cause of all - the absence of freedom.

Iowa City is okay as Midwestern cities go, but there's no food, no culture, no ocean.

Food is for eating, and good food is to be enjoyed... I think food is, actually, very beautiful in itself.

People will travel anywhere for good food - it's crazy.

From the described experiment it is clear that the mere act of eating, the food even not reaching the stomach, determines the stimulation of the gastric glands.

People love their animals so much so that they put little clothes on them and necklaces and booties and things like that. And if you love your animal, then you should feed them something that's not dangerous for them. There's a lot of poisonous stuff that they're putting in a lot of that food, those by-products.

Most food you drop is still perfectly edible. If it was in your eyesight the whole time, you can pick it up and eat it.

I'm not a food critic, and I'm not really an authority to write anything on food.

A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

Don't make jokes about food.

As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world - most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world's poor.

Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. 'Forbidden' is more tempting. And it becomes something evil, but food is food. It's there to nourish your body.

I think Australian food is probably some of the best in the world.

As a matter of fact, I've been to Italy many times before I met my husband, which he can't even imagine that I could possibly know anything about Italian food. But, you know, Italian food's really basic, and there's so many different variations on it that what my husband did is he broke it down for me.

People always comment about my clothes. They don't think a fashionable woman can love food and be knowledgeable and actually cook.

Creole is New Orleans city food. Communities were created by the people who wanted to stay and not go back to Spain or France.

My Mom always cooked healthy. Greek food lends itself to cooking healthy.

You're raising a kid and you give it food and shelter and, most importantly, you give it the feeling that it's special. I think people react to celebrities like that - I mean, they treat celebrities like children.

Everybody has a weakness. Mine is food.

All artists are people of growth. It's like food, you take the good and leave the rest.