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.
  ~ W. H. Auden ~
• What is food to one man is bitter poison to others.
  ~ Lucretius ~
• God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.
  ~ J. G. Holland ~
• Any healthy man can go without food for two days -- but not without poetry.
  ~ Charles Baudelaire ~
• Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.
  ~ Charles Baudelaire ~
• When I get a little money I buy books and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
  ~ Desiderius Erasmus ~
• When I get a little money I buy books and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
  ~ Desiderius Erasmus ~
• When I get a little money I buy books and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
  ~ Desiderius Erasmus ~
• My last meal? The food would be much less significant than the company.
  ~ Mario Batali ~
• Cookbooks have all become baroque and very predictable. I'm looking for something different. A lot of chefs' cookbooks are food as it's done in the restaurants, but they are dumbed down, and I hate it when they dumb them down.
  ~ Mario Batali ~
• I was at a party, and some squiggly looking dude with a bow tie came up and said, 'How'd you like to be on TV?' Turns out he was the programming guy at the Food Network. They had me come into the office, and I did a 'Ready, Set, Cook' with Emeril Lagasse, I believe.
  ~ Mario Batali ~
• Unlike curing cancer or heart disease, we already know how to beat hunger: food.
  ~ Mario Batali ~
• Shop often, shop hard, and spend for the best stuff available - logic dictates that you can make delicious food only with delicious ingredients.
  ~ Mario Batali ~
• Bologna is the best city in Italy for food and has the least number of tourists. With its medieval beauty, it has it all.
  ~ Mario Batali ~
• 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.
  ~ Mario Batali ~
• As far away as you can get from the process of mechanisms and machinery, the more likely your food's going to taste good. And that - that is probably the largest thing I can hand to anybody is let your hands touch it. Let them make it.
  ~ Mario Batali ~
• Everyone makes pesto in a food processor. But the texture is better with a mortar and pestle, and it's just as fast.
  ~ Mario Batali ~
• Finishing food is about the tiny touches. In the last seconds you can change everything.
  ~ Mario Batali ~
• 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.
  ~ Mario Batali ~
• Working at the Food Bank with my kids is an eye-opener. The face of hunger isn't the bum on the street drinking Sterno it's the working poor. They don't look any different, they don't behave any differently, they're not really any less educated. They are incredibly less privileged, and that's it.
  ~ Mario Batali ~
• The passion of the Italian or the Italian-American population is endless for food and lore and everything about it.
  ~ Mario Batali ~
• In America, I would say New York and New Orleans are the two most interesting food towns. In New Orleans, they don't have a bad deli. There's no mediocrity accepted.
  ~ Mario Batali ~
• We would load up the yellow Cutlass Supreme station wagon and pick blackberries during blackberry season or spring onions during spring onion season. For us, food was part of the fabric of our day.
  ~ Mario Batali ~
• Finishing food is about the tiny touches. In the last seconds you can change everything.
  ~ Mario Batali ~
• Bologna is the best city in Italy for food and has the least number of tourists. With its medieval beauty, it has it all.
  ~ Mario Batali ~
• We simply can no longer afford to deny the full potential of one half of the population. The world needs to tap into the talent and wisdom of women. Whether the issue is food security, economic recovery, health, or peace and security, the participation of women is needed now more than ever.
  ~ Michelle Bachelet ~
• We simply can no longer afford to deny the full potential of one half of the population. The world needs to tap into the talent and wisdom of women. Whether the issue is food security, economic recovery, health, or peace and security, the participation of women is needed now more than ever.
  ~ Michelle Bachelet ~
• We simply can no longer afford to deny the full potential of one half of the population. The world needs to tap into the talent and wisdom of women. Whether the issue is food security, economic recovery, health, or peace and security, the participation of women is needed now more than ever.
  ~ Michelle Bachelet ~
• When women earn the money for the family, everyone in the family benefits. We also know that when women have an income, everyone wins because women dedicate 90% of the income to health, education, to food security, to the children, to the family, or to the community, so when women have an income, everybody wins.
  ~ Michelle Bachelet ~
• We simply can no longer afford to deny the full potential of one half of the population. The world needs to tap into the talent and wisdom of women. Whether the issue is food security, economic recovery, health, or peace and security, the participation of women is needed now more than ever.
  ~ Michelle Bachelet ~
• When women earn the money for the family, everyone in the family benefits. We also know that when women have an income, everyone wins because women dedicate 90% of the income to health, education, to food security, to the children, to the family, or to the community, so when women have an income, everybody wins.
  ~ Michelle Bachelet ~
• When women earn the money for the family, everyone in the family benefits. We also know that when women have an income, everyone wins because women dedicate 90% of the income to health, education, to food security, to the children, to the family, or to the community, so when women have an income, everybody wins.
  ~ Michelle Bachelet ~
• I'm into very colorful food. Obviously lots of flavor, but I think we eat with our eyes first, so it has to look great. The presentation has to be great.
  ~ Giada De Laurentiis ~
• There's nothing like a home-cooked meal - nothing! When people ask me what the best restaurant in L.A. is, I say, 'Uh, my house.' It's more intimate. Food can connect people in a forever sort of way.
  ~ Giada De Laurentiis ~
• My grandfather gave me inspiration to cook, and love food and flavors. My Aunt Raffie, gave me creativity and the inspiration to create new things. My mother inspires me to find simplicity in food.
  ~ Giada De Laurentiis ~
• Attitudes toward food have completely changed.
  ~ Giada De Laurentiis ~
• Food was always a big part of my life. My grandfather was one of 14 kids, and his parents had a pasta factory, so as a kid, he and his siblings would sell pasta door to door. After he became a movie producer, he opened up De Laurentiis Food Stores - one in Los Angeles and one in New York.
  ~ Giada De Laurentiis ~
• I think you can tell the food is close to my heart, too, because I'm doing what I do best.
  ~ Giada De Laurentiis ~
• My goal is to make Italian food clean and accessible and beautiful and tasty, with simple ingredients that people can find at a local grocery store, because people don't want to go to a gourmet shop in search of items that will sit in their pantry for years after they use just a teaspoon or pinch of them.
  ~ Giada De Laurentiis ~
• Food brings people together on many different levels. It's nourishment of the soul and body it's truly love.
  ~ Giada De Laurentiis ~
• My grandfather's family used to own a pasta factory in Naples and they would go door-to-door selling their pasta. So his love of food came from his parents, which was then passed down to my mother and then again to me.
  ~ Giada De Laurentiis ~
• My grandfather's family used to own a pasta factory in Naples and they would go door-to-door selling their pasta. So his love of food came from his parents, which was then passed down to my mother and then again to me.
  ~ Giada De Laurentiis ~
• When I tour, I stuff fridges full of organic food and stick to that.
  ~ Avril Lavigne ~
• I was eating bad stuff. Lots of sugar and carbs, junk food all the time. It makes you very irritated.
  ~ Avril Lavigne ~
• I don't really believe in diets. I love food... If I deprive myself, I'm going to want it more. I snack on yogurt, raw cashews and cherry tomatoes.
  ~ Nicole Scherzinger ~
• Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.
  ~ Wendell Berry ~
• To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
  ~ Wendell Berry ~
• The food isn't too bad. It's very different from the food that the astronauts ate in the very early days of the space program.
  ~ Sally Ride ~
• I love food, I love eating.
  ~ Robin Gibb ~
• Men can absent themselves from real life for their art more easily. Women are anchored into the quotidian business of getting food on the table, making sure everybody's socks match, the soccer gear is ready. I admire idealists, but they're usually enabled by someone who holds the tether on their balloon, who pays the bills and sweeps up after them.
  ~ Geraldine Brooks ~
• I don't let it bother me too much if someone doesn't like me. I just figure there's no accounting for taste. It's not me, it's my acting. It's like if someone doesn't like someone's food, they just don't like my acting.
  ~ Anna Chlumsky ~
• Women oftentimes are the ones making those economic decisions, sitting around the kitchen table and trying to figure out how to pay for rising gas prices or food prices or the health insurance costs. And I think that they see where they expect their leaders in Congress to also make those tough decisions.
  ~ Cathy Mcmorris ~
• Women oftentimes are the ones making those economic decisions, sitting around the kitchen table and trying to figure out how to pay for rising gas prices or food prices or the health insurance costs. And I think that they see where they expect their leaders in Congress to also make those tough decisions.
  ~ Cathy Mcmorris ~
• St. Louis has a lot of weird food customs that you don't see other places - and a lot of great ethnic neighborhoods. There's a German neighborhood. A great old school Italian neighborhood, with toasted ravioli, which seems to be a St. Louis tradition. And they love provolone cheese in St. Louis.
  ~ Andy Cohen ~
• I love 'Top Chef.' I think it rewrote the book on how food shows are presented on TV.
  ~ Andy Cohen ~
• At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it.
  ~ Oliver Reed ~
• At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it.
  ~ Oliver Reed ~
• At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it.
  ~ Oliver Reed ~
• I need protein from food rather than just protein supplements. I changed my diet.
  ~ Travis Barker ~
• I need protein from food rather than just protein supplements. I changed my diet.
  ~ Travis Barker ~
• Older people shouldn't eat health food, they need all the preservatives they can get.
  ~ Robert Orben ~
• Older people shouldn't eat health food, they need all the preservatives they can get.
  ~ Robert Orben ~
• Older people shouldn't eat health food, they need all the preservatives they can get.
  ~ Robert Orben ~
• I can safely say that other than macaroni and cheese, there's no processed food in my life. There's no inorganic food in my life these days. There's no junk food. There's not a lot of sugar. There's no soy. I mean, really everything that's going into my body is pretty pure.
  ~ Ginnifer Goodwin ~
• I don't enjoy good food. I don't enjoy flashy cars. I don't care if I live in a dump. I don't enjoy good clothes. This is the best I've dressed in months.
  ~ Jack Kevorkian ~
• I can't stay away from Chinese food. I really love that stuff.
  ~ Shaun White ~
• If I don't get food in my mouth, I'm still happy. If my pants are round my ankles, as long as I don't get arrested for indecent exposure, I'm happy. I'm worried about keeping my hair, not how it's combed.
  ~ Michael J. Fox ~
• It was very clear to me in 1965, in Mississippi, that, as a lawyer, I could get people into schools, desegregate the schools, but if they were kicked off the plantations - and if they didn't have food, didn't have jobs, didn't have health care, didn't have the means to exercise those civil rights, we were not going to have success.
  ~ Marian Wright Edelman ~
• It was very clear to me in 1965, in Mississippi, that, as a lawyer, I could get people into schools, desegregate the schools, but if they were kicked off the plantations - and if they didn't have food, didn't have jobs, didn't have health care, didn't have the means to exercise those civil rights, we were not going to have success.
  ~ Marian Wright Edelman ~
• It was very clear to me in 1965, in Mississippi, that, as a lawyer, I could get people into schools, desegregate the schools, but if they were kicked off the plantations - and if they didn't have food, didn't have jobs, didn't have health care, didn't have the means to exercise those civil rights, we were not going to have success.
  ~ Marian Wright Edelman ~
• Freedom must be gained step by step, slowly. Freedom is a food which must be carefully administered when people are too hungry for it.
  ~ Lech Walesa ~
• Freedom must be gained step by step, slowly. Freedom is a food which must be carefully administered when people are too hungry for it.
  ~ Lech Walesa ~
• President Obama is the most successful food stamp president in American history. I would like to be the most successful paycheck president in American history.
  ~ Newt Gingrich ~
• President Obama is the most successful food stamp president in American history. I would like to be the most successful paycheck president in American history.
  ~ Newt Gingrich ~
• Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.
  ~ Billy Joel ~
• When I was 19, I made my first good week's pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked.
  ~ Billy Joel ~
• Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.
  ~ Billy Joel ~
• When I was 19, I made my first good week's pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked.
  ~ Billy Joel ~
• When I'm filming, survival requires movement. You need your energy, and you've got to eat the bad stuff, and survival food is rarely pretty, but you kind of do it. I get in that zone, and I eat the nasty stuff, but I'm not like that when I'm back home.
  ~ Bear Grylls ~
• I love home cooking, and I'm not a great one for fast food.
  ~ Bear Grylls ~
• When I'm filming, survival requires movement. You need your energy, and you've got to eat the bad stuff, and survival food is rarely pretty, but you kind of do it. I get in that zone, and I eat the nasty stuff, but I'm not like that when I'm back home.
  ~ Bear Grylls ~
• I love home cooking, and I'm not a great one for fast food.
  ~ Bear Grylls ~
• I have encouraged my kids to eat well from day one. I add flavor - herbs and spices - to everything because I don't want them getting used to starchy, bland food. I also want them to experiment - they don't have to love everything, but they do have to try it.
  ~ Alison Sweeney ~
• There are times, like after a long day of work, when the thought of an easy drive-through is enticing. But then I remember how crappy I felt when I ate fast food in the past, and it inspires me to head to the grocery store or my local farmer's market and whip up an easy but healthier option.
  ~ Alison Sweeney ~
• The number one mistake is giving pets table scraps. I made the mistake thinking I was showing my dog love by giving her food and treats. You see a tiny 4 oz. piece of cheese, but for a Boston Terrier like mine, that's like one and a half hamburgers. That's unhealthy.
  ~ Alison Sweeney ~
• I say grace. I'm a big believer in grace. I happen to believe in a God that made all the food and so I'm pretty grateful for that and I thank him for that. But I'm also thankful for the people that put the food on the table.
  ~ Alton Brown ~
• The kitchen's a laboratory, and everything that happens there has to do with science. It's biology, chemistry, physics. Yes, there's history. Yes, there's artistry. Yes, to all of that. But what happened there, what actually happens to the food is all science.
  ~ Alton Brown ~
• Everything in food is science. The only subjective part is when you eat it.
  ~ Alton Brown ~
• I am a filmmaker. That is all I've ever been. You know, Martin Scorsese makes films about the mob. And I make movies about food.
  ~ Alton Brown ~
• I think a lot of food shows, especially when we started 'Good Eats' back in the late '90s, they were still really about food. 'Good Eats' isn't about food, it's about entertainment. If, however, we can virally infect you with knowledge or interest, then all the better.
  ~ Alton Brown ~
• The kitchen's a laboratory, and everything that happens there has to do with science. It's biology, chemistry, physics. Yes, there's history. Yes, there's artistry. Yes, to all of that. But what happened there, what actually happens to the food is all science.
  ~ Alton Brown ~
• Do not allow watching food to replace making food.
  ~ Alton Brown ~
• I am a filmmaker. That is all I've ever been. You know, Martin Scorsese makes films about the mob. And I make movies about food.
  ~ Alton Brown ~
• I'm a filmmaker who decided to go to culinary school. All I picked up was the fact if I didn't understand what was going on with every single ingredient, I could be qualifying for, like, the lunch food job at my daughter's school.
  ~ Alton Brown ~
• I think a lot of food shows, especially when we started 'Good Eats' back in the late '90s, they were still really about food. 'Good Eats' isn't about food, it's about entertainment. If, however, we can virally infect you with knowledge or interest, then all the better.
  ~ Alton Brown ~
• You know most of the food that Americans hold so dear - things like hamburgers and hot dogs - were road food, but even before they were road food, they were peasant food.
  ~ Alton Brown ~
• I spent a college semester in a small town in Italy - and that is where I truly tasted food for the first time.
  ~ Alton Brown ~
• You don't want flame to hit your food. Flame is bad. Flame does nasty things to food. It makes soot and it makes deposits of various chemicals that are not too good for us. The last thing you really want to see licking at your food while it's on a grill is an actual flame.
  ~ Alton Brown ~
• I kept thinking, 'Somebody has to make a food show that is actually educational and entertaining at the same time... a show that got down to the 'why things happen.' Plus, I hated my job - I didn't think it was very worthwhile.
  ~ Alton Brown ~
• A lot of food shows need only to tempt. Some food shows only need to inspire, to empower. And there are a lot of shows that do that.
  ~ Alton Brown ~