FOOD QUOTES
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.
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W. H. Auden
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What is food to one man is bitter poison to others.
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Lucretius
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God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.
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J. G. Holland
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Any healthy man can go without food for two days -- but not without poetry.
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Charles Baudelaire
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Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.
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Charles Baudelaire
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I hate menus, I hate choosing food. I just want to be brought. Bring me dinner!
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Hugh Laurie
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I like to know exactly what's being put into my food.
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Lauren Conrad
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I'm into mellow dates with really good food.
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Lauren Conrad
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A gun can be dangerous. But a gun can protect you, you can hunt for food with it - you know, the tool itself is a tool. The intention of the party using the tool is a part of the process, right? You know: the knife cuts the steak, stabs the person, saves somebody from danger, cuts somebody out of a car.
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Peter Guber
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A gun can be dangerous. But a gun can protect you, you can hunt for food with it - you know, the tool itself is a tool. The intention of the party using the tool is a part of the process, right? You know: the knife cuts the steak, stabs the person, saves somebody from danger, cuts somebody out of a car.
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Peter Guber
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Christmas is more stressful with present buying and making sure everyone gets included, but Thanksgiving is really not that. I don't ever really get stressed out about the food.
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Sandra Lee
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Christmas is more stressful with present buying and making sure everyone gets included, but Thanksgiving is really not that. I don't ever really get stressed out about the food.
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Sandra Lee
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I like doing food as a focal point on my table. It is not like going out and buying flowers or candles, which are expensive.
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Sandra Lee
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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.
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Sandra Lee
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It's really easy to figure out why I love what I love, the holidays and food. I know the difference between having them and not having them.
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Sandra Lee
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I'm not sure that some of the food purists are in touch with what really goes on in American households.
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Sandra Lee
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When I came to the Food Network, I didn't want to do a cooking show. I told Kathleen Finch for nine months I didn't want to do a cooking show, I wanted to do a home-and-garden show.
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Sandra Lee
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Christmas is more stressful with present buying and making sure everyone gets included, but Thanksgiving is really not that. I don't ever really get stressed out about the food.
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Sandra Lee
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Baking cookies is comforting, and cookies are the sweetest little bit of comfort food. They are very bite-sized and personal.
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Sandra Lee
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If newspapers were a baseball team, they would be the Mets - without the hope for those folks at the very pinnacle of the financial food chain - who average nearly $24 million a year in income - 'next year.'
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Eric Alterman
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If newspapers were a baseball team, they would be the Mets - without the hope for those folks at the very pinnacle of the financial food chain - who average nearly $24 million a year in income - 'next year.'
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Eric Alterman
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And I think of that again as I've written in several of my beauty books, a lot of health comes from the proper eating habits, which are something that - you know, I come from a generation that wasn't - didn't have a lot of food.
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Joan Collins
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And I think of that again as I've written in several of my beauty books, a lot of health comes from the proper eating habits, which are something that - you know, I come from a generation that wasn't - didn't have a lot of food.
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Joan Collins
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And I think of that again as I've written in several of my beauty books, a lot of health comes from the proper eating habits, which are something that - you know, I come from a generation that wasn't - didn't have a lot of food.
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Joan Collins
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Well, food's always the way to anybody's heart, I think, guy or girl.
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Josh Hutcherson
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A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.
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Fergie
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I'm famous for splurging at fast-food places. I'm currently obsessed with Taco Bell's bean and cheese burritos with extra green sauce and extra cheese. Gluttony!
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Fergie
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A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.
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Fergie
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What we are trying to do is to create a social business in Bangladesh, a joint venture to create restaurants for common people. Good, healthy food at affordable prices so that people don't have to opt for food that is unhealthy and unhygienic.
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Muhammad Yunus
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I'm girlie in the sense that I like makeup, but I also love sports and man food.
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Carrie Underwood
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I'm girlie in the sense that I like makeup, but I also love sports and man food.
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Carrie Underwood
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I'm the person who wouldn't send back my food even if I got steak when I'd ordered fish.
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Anna Kendrick
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When I got to France I realized I didn't know very much about food at all. I'd never had a real cake. I'd had those cakes from cake mixes or the ones that have a lot of baking powder in them. A really good French cake doesn't have anything like that in it - it's all egg power.
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Julia Child
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As we say in the American Institute of Wine and Food, small helpings, no seconds. A little bit of everything. No snacking. And have a good time.
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Julia Child
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I think one of the terrible things today is that people have this deathly fear of food: fear of eggs, say, or fear of butter. Most doctors feel that you can have a little bit of everything.
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Julia Child
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When I got to France I realized I didn't know very much about food at all. I'd never had a real cake. I'd had those cakes from cake mixes or the ones that have a lot of baking powder in them. A really good French cake doesn't have anything like that in it - it's all egg power.
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Julia Child
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Animals that we eat are raised for food in the most economical way possible, and the serious food producers do it in the most humane way possible. I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages.
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Julia Child
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I think one of the terrible things today is that people have this deathly fear of food: fear of eggs, say, or fear of butter. Most doctors feel that you can have a little bit of everything.
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Julia Child
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I wake up every morning happy for where I am in life. It's not all about the cooking, but the fact that I can contribute by using my influence to help people all over the country. In the last two years, my partners and I have fed more than 10 million hungry people by bringing meat to food banks.
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Paula Deen
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I will never use a substitute for butter. Margarine is one molecule away from eating plastic. If I'm going to eat that type of food, it's going to be the real deal.
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Paula Deen
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I wake up every morning happy for where I am in life. It's not all about the cooking, but the fact that I can contribute by using my influence to help people all over the country. In the last two years, my partners and I have fed more than 10 million hungry people by bringing meat to food banks.
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Paula Deen
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I don't want to spend my life not having good food going into my pie hole. That hole was made for pies.
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Paula Deen
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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.
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Paula Deen
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I have my new food line in the works - I think it's over 200 items. Hopefully I can make a difference it's delicious food that's just so easy. I think it'll help people enjoy their lives... it's good!
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Paula Deen
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What I've enjoyed most, though, is meeting people who have a real interest in food and sharing ideas with them. Good food is a global thing and I find that there is always something new and amazing to learn - I love it!
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Jamie Oliver
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I wouldn't say that processed food, ready meals and even takeaways aren't relevant to modern life, it's just that over the past 40 years there are three generations of people who have come out of school and gone through their home life without ever being shown how to cook properly.
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Jamie Oliver
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I want Americans to enjoy food. I want them to celebrate food. I want them to, on occasions, to have big cakes and great things. And I want them to indulge.
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Jamie Oliver
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Heads know that failing to invest in good, nutritious food is a false economy and parents won't tolerate reconstituted turkey being put back on the menu.
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Jamie Oliver
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Give your kids a bloody knife and fork and let me put some fresh food in front of them they can eat.
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Jamie Oliver
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If you only design menus that are essentially junk or fast food, the whole infrastructure supports junk.
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Jamie Oliver
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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.
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Jamie Oliver
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All I ever wanted to do was to make food accessible to everyone to show that you can make mistakes - I do all the time - but it doesn't matter.
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Jamie Oliver
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Just because the Americans are so good at rattling out accessible and cheap junk food, nobody looks twice when it comes to their food. But there are golden nuggets everywhere.
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Jamie Oliver
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What I've enjoyed most, though, is meeting people who have a real interest in food and sharing ideas with them. Good food is a global thing and I find that there is always something new and amazing to learn - I love it!
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Jamie Oliver
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If you only design menus that are essentially junk or fast food, the whole infrastructure supports junk.
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Jamie Oliver
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What I've enjoyed most, though, is meeting people who have a real interest in food and sharing ideas with them. Good food is a global thing and I find that there is always something new and amazing to learn - I love it!
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Jamie Oliver
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Entrepreneurs always pitch their idea as 'the X of Y', so this is going to be 'the Microsoft of food.' And yet disruptive innovations usually don't have that character. Most of the time, if something seems like a good idea, it probably isn't.
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Eric Ries
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I love all kinds of bread. Whenever I crave junk food, I want salty things like peanuts or potato chips.
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Tyra Banks
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I love food and feel that it is something that should be enjoyed. I eat whatever I want. I just don't overeat.
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Tyra Banks
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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Christian Nestell Bovee
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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Christian Nestell Bovee
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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Christian Nestell Bovee
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If food were free, why work?
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Douglas Horton
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Used to be, conservatives revered the Average American, that Norman Rockwell oil painting of diner food, humble faith, honest toil, and Capraesque virtue.
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James Wolcott
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Used to be, conservatives revered the Average American, that Norman Rockwell oil painting of diner food, humble faith, honest toil, and Capraesque virtue.
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James Wolcott
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The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose.
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Garrison Keillor
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In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.
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Wangari Maathai
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In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.
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Wangari Maathai
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In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.
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Wangari Maathai
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Food is not your best friend or enemy.
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Bethenny Frankel
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Never eat while doing something else, because you won't get the satisfaction from your food and you'll be more likely to overeat.
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Bethenny Frankel
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Your diet is a bank account. Good food choices are good investments.
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Bethenny Frankel
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Your diet is a bank account. Good food choices are good investments.
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Bethenny Frankel
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You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn't throw up, you weren't late, you weren't nauseated by the food. So you are grateful.
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Paul Theroux
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You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you didn't crash, you didn't throw up, you weren't late, you weren't nauseated by the food. So you are grateful.
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Paul Theroux
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Health food makes me sick.
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Calvin Trillin
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Canadians are very well behaved, they don't throw their food.
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Calvin Trillin
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I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant.
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Calvin Trillin
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I don't think I've ever read a food piece or a food book.
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Calvin Trillin
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When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.
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Calvin Trillin
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The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they're trying to keep out.
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Calvin Trillin
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Health food makes me sick.
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Calvin Trillin
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Health food makes me sick.
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Calvin Trillin
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If I can wake up everyday before I die and know that I don't have to serve anyone food or drinks, I will be happy!
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Kelly Clarkson
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A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible 'lifestyles' turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind.
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George Will
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A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible 'lifestyles' turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind.
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George Will
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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.
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Ted Allen
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When I come home from a shoot, I'd rather reheat food I've made than eat takeout.
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Ted Allen
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I'm a home cook and love to read about food, but I'm not trained as a chef. I'm just really into cooking and passionate about it.
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Ted Allen
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I think what I do differently from a lot of TV chefs is that I break down barriers and make fine food more accessible to the regular person, who might be intimidated. I try hard, particularly with wine, to make it not intimidating. It's sort of a teaching job.
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Ted Allen
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Believe me, I understand the need for easy and speedy. After a 12-hour day of shooting 'Chopped,' say, I'm talking stir-fry, spaghetti, heck, peanut-butter sandwiches. But that's not about the joy of food. That's survival.
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Ted Allen
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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.
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Ted Allen
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I've always hoped 'Chopped' would telegraph our enormous affection and love and admiration for chefs and food, but at the same time, we are inflicting extraordinary cruelty on them.
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Ted Allen
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When I come home from a shoot, I'd rather reheat food I've made than eat takeout.
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Ted Allen
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You know the great irony is that people think you have to have money to enjoy fine food, which is a shame.
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Ted Allen
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Jay Leno is not a guy who likes change. He eats the same food every day.
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Ted Allen
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I went in saying I wanted to be the food guy.
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Ted Allen
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I'm a home cook and love to read about food, but I'm not trained as a chef. I'm just really into cooking and passionate about it.
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Ted Allen
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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.
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Ted Allen
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My quest these days is to find my long lost inner child, but I'm afraid if I do, I'll end up with food in my hair and way too in love with the cats.
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Kenny Loggins
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