I truly think you can get a great meal in most cities around the world now. I credit the internet for making it possible for a kid in Iowa to see what a great chef in Paris is doing and emulate it.
Doing a good play on the stage is like eating a good meal at home – assuming your wife is a great cook or that she’s hired a great cook.
I have a busy schedule and am constantly traveling so when I do have the time to grocery shop or prepare a meal, I make it a priority.
I believe in doing yoga and do Vajrasana for 20 minutes after every meal. I also do cardio exercise to lose fat.
I just wanted to give them the ‘Lost Jewelry’ so they can say, ‘Yo, they get that’s mean.’ And then when I tell ’em, ‘Yo, that ain’t even the meal. Get ready for the meal!’ That’s when we ’bout to go crazy because the taste of the appetizer.
I gained a lot of weight when I got to college because my eating habits were bad (I was eating pizza and French fries at every single meal), and it was hard to deal with.
The problem is when that fun stuff becomes the habit. And I think that’s what’s happened in our culture. Fast food has become the everyday meal.
As an athlete, you’re brought up with that mentality that you finish everything you start. If you’re going to start a meal, you’re going to finish it until the plate is clean. I had to change that mentality to one of where, ‘I eat until I’m full and leave the rest.’
At Eleven Madison Park, instead of brioche or chocolates, we give our guests a jar of breakfast granola as a gift at the end of a meal. We also make savory granolas.
I’m just really waiting for the music to get cooked the right way, and once it’s cooked, I’m going to serve that meal that everybody’s been waiting for.
Thai food became one of my favorite types of food, it’s so delicious, and when you finish a meal it’s a double whammy; it tasted great and was pretty healthy.
See, I just don’t want to starve at my wedding. So, my dream wedding is one where I get to eat a meal while everyone else enjoys themselves as well.
I think that romance sort of coincides with effort, so you can fall flat on your face, but as long as you’re making a great effort, I think it comes off as romantic. So it can be something as simple as, like, if you’re someone who doesn’t cook, you can make a meal.
My parents were out of town and sent me to stay at my grandma’s house. That’s where I learned how to make pancakes. I served them to all the old ladies who lived on her block. After the meal, they each left a $5 bill next to their plates. I thought, ‘Hey, I’m onto something here.’
Parathas are a flaky, buttery, and layered style of flatbread that can be served alongside curries, rolled up and dipped into hot chai, or made into a meal by themselves with a side of raita for dunking.
Every meal should end with something sweet. Maybe it’s jelly on toast at breakfast, or a small piece of chocolate at dinner – but it always helps my brain bring a close to the meal.
I am so obsessed with workouts that I am ok with skipping a meal or two but I just can’t imagine not working out for a day.
I don’t sign autographs when I’m out for a meal or out with my kids. I think that’s rude and disrespectful. I would never ask anyone for an autograph while they were eating dinner; that’s what I was taught by my parents.
We Georgians are really into food and drink. We would never have finger food at a party or a wedding – celebrations are always one long meal, on one long table, with endless toasts.
I love to make a one-pot meal – think stir-fry but in the French Fricassee. I start with what takes the longest to roast and then add vegetables, fresh herbs, and starch until the meal is complete in one shot.
Usually when I have a salad it’s pretty hearty, balanced and healthy and a full meal.
For the Anglo-Saxons, meat was the main meal of the day, which revolved around ‘before-meat’ and ‘after-meat.’ But it has ended up as the metaphor for the most basic: ‘meat and potatoes’ is as far from sassy – from ‘sauce’ – as you can get.
I tend to avoid cakes made with matzo meal instead of flour. Also, most prepared dessert products and mixes. Sometimes the packaging they come in tastes better than the product.
I lived in the streets for three years when I was a kid, and every day, I didn’t know where my next meal would come from.
Fame is like caviar, you know – it’s good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.
I don’t read a lot of magazines, but when I’m traveling, I’ll pick up a copy of ‘Vanity Fair’ to read on the plane – it’s like a full meal! The articles are so good, especially the crime stories. Browsing the Web is more like snacking – but I live on snacks.
I listen to everything: noise, classical, jazz. I like lots of different types of food. There’s no way you could get me to eat the same meal everyday, so why would I do the same with music?
Whatever hardships there have been in my life I still live in a very privileged position. Fear is not knowing where your next meal is coming from. Fear is seeing a child get hurt. Fear is watching someone you love waste away. Fear is knowing you are going to die yourself. But there’s no fear in what I do. I write books.
For food to be romantic, it should be light. Too many times people plan a romantic meal, and the food is too heavy.
I love soup ’cause I don’t like to cook. It’s so easy to prepare, and it fills you up and gives you all the nutrients you need. It’s a well-balanced meal, but you don’t have to do a lot of preparation.
I remember my father, who was ‘somebody’ in the synagogue, bringing home with him one of the poor men who waited outside to be chosen to share the Passover meal. These patriarchal manners I remember well, although there was about them an air of bourgeois benevolence which was somewhat comic.
I cannot finish a meal if I do not have a good dessert. But when I say good, I mean it has to be really good. And it’s usually small stuff – a piece of candy, crepes, some apple cobbler. No cake.
Creating a meal for somebody, it’s a way to show your love.
Customers are more friendly when they’ve had a meal.
The Greek side of me definitely loves a good meal, a lot of laughing, loud discussions.
When I was a child, we always had wine on the table, no matter how simple the meal. The wine had no special identity; it was just ‘the wine,’ from the cellar cask. The rules were general: white with the first course, red with the main course.
The poverty one still sees in America today is more shocking to me than anything I have seen in Ethiopia or Calcutta or Manila, and has made me, as someone living in a society of great wealth and someone who’s never had to worry about the next meal, think seriously about what universal responsibility really means.
I do know what my first meal in the next world would be… Spaghetti Aglio e Olio, heavy on everything.
I always think it’s kind of fun to get to the airport early, check in, and then go and have a meal before getting on the plane.
For a two-job working family, a pressure cooker gets a meal on the table in seven to 15 minutes, start to finish.
If it’s a cocktail party, I generally make five or six different things, and I try to choose recipes that feel like a meal: a chicken thing, a fish or shrimp thing, maybe two vegetable things, and I think it’s fun to end the cocktail party with a sweet thing.
I have a real dog-like mentality, in that it’s like, ‘Where is my next meal coming from? Am I ever gonna eat again? Will I ever write another song again? Will anyone show up for tour?’ I think it comes from being really poor as a kid.
For my meal replacements, I eat way too many Quest bars. I think you should eat every three hours. I usually wake up once a night, and if I do wake up, I always eat a Quest bar to feed my machine.
I tried therapy. This had never appealed to me. For me, it was a bit like a Chinese meal: very filling at the time, but then an hour later you’re hungry again.
An ideal day for me is a combination of a fun-exciting creative moment with work partners, some laughs and games with my kids, a good surf session, and great conversation with friends around a meal.
As a parent, my fantasy is to cook every meal, read every story, do everything, and also work all day. I’m overly hard on myself.
The two worst enemies of comedy are lack of sleep and not having had a decent meal.
I met my husband through a mutual friend. He invited me over for dinner and cooked this meal that knocked my socks off – and maybe knocked off a few other pieces of clothing off as well.
I love breakfast! Not only is it the most important meal of the day, but I loved waking up to – the smell of bacon in the morning was my favorite thing as a kid!
For many of us, Christmas lunch is the most special meal of the year – and I certainly want nothing but the very best for this celebration.
