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.
Never be a food snob. Learn from everyone you meet – the fish guy at your market, the lady at the local diner, farmers, cheese makers. Ask questions, try everything and eat up!
Just like food, you could think peanut butter is your favorite food for 5,000 years and then be like, ‘I actually like burgers better’, you know? I was just trying to say that kids and people in general don’t have to label themselves and say, ‘I’m straight’ or ‘I’m gay’ or ‘I’m whatever.’
Attitudes toward food have completely changed.
Food is an important part of a balanced diet.
My number one elixir for anxiety? Comfort food.
My favorite food from my homeland is Guinness. My second choice in Guinness. My third choice – would have to be Guinness.
More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.
Why would I want a place of my own? Then I would have to things worry about, like doing laundry and having food in the fridge.
If you’re good, you’ll get work. And if I’ve got food in my fridge and clothes on my back, I’ll be happy.
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.
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
Ounce for ounce, herbs and spices have more antioxidants than any other food group.
If we tackle deforestation in the right way, the benefits will be far-reaching – greater food security, improved livelihoods for millions of small farmers and indigenous people, more prosperous rural economies, and above all, a more stable climate.
I always knew that food and wine were vital, with my mother being Italian and a good cook.
I feel really bad for people who aren’t insane over food.
You entertain people who are satisfied. Hungry people can’t be entertained – or people who are afraid. You can’t entertain a man who has no food.
For the first few years we lived in a tiny rented cottage at the bottom of a friend’s garden. We often joked that there was plenty of film in the fridge, but not too much food!
I’ve had this terrible stomach problem for years, and that has made touring difficult. People would see me sitting in the corner by myself looking sick and gloomy. The reason is that I was trying to fight against the stomach pain, trying to hold my food down. People looked me and assumed I was some kind of addict.
As I see it, a green salad is an open invitation to carrots, onions, mushrooms, tomatoes, and the sprouts that grow in jars on my kitchen counter.
Of course I didn’t pioneer the use of food in fiction: it has been a standard literary device since Chaucer and Rabelais, who used food wonderfully as a metaphor for sensuality.
Why should blacks feel elated about seeing men walk on the moon when millions of poor blacks and whites don’t have enough money to buy food to eat on earth?
Every major food company now has an organic division. There’s more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before.
You can’t make a souffle rise twice.
The very fact that we are having a national conversation about what we should eat, that we are struggling with the question about what the best diet is, is symptomatic of how far we have strayed from the natural conditions that gave rise to our species, from the simple act of eating real, whole, fresh food.
You can’t simply slash the sugar in food; otherwise, people simply won’t accept it.
When I was a kid, my mother used to feed me mashed-potato sandwiches, brussel sprout sandwiches; my brain cells were starving from lack of food. I’ll eat anything. I’ll eat dirt.
I don’t avoid any particular food. But I don’t eat too much.
You can’t have a healthy civilization without healthy soil. You can’t have junk food and have healthy people.
Myself, Eric Wareheim, and Jason Woliner decided to start a Food Club where the three of us go to restaurants with a couple of other people. The three of us are the captains of the Food Club, so we have to wear the captains’ hats.
Food is a lens for culture.
I can testify to what UNICEF means to children because I was among those who received food and medical relief right after World War II.
If you see a black family, it’s looting, but if it’s a white family they are looking for food.
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.
I was a girl in a land where rifles are fired in celebration of a son, while daughters are hidden away behind a curtain, their role in life simply to prepare food and give birth to children.
I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.
A poet could write volumes about diners, because they’re so beautiful. They’re brightly lit, with chrome and booths and Naugahyde and great waitresses. Now, it might not be so great in the health department, but I think diner food is really worth experiencing periodically.
Low-cost, high-grade coal, oil and natural gas – the backbone of the Industrial Revolution – will be a distant memory by 2050. Much higher-cost remnants will still be available, but they will not be able to drive our growth, our population and, most critically, our food supply as before.
I’m a foodie. I enjoy it a lot, and contrary to what it looks, I eat a lot. My comfort food, of all things, would be southern soul barbecue.
I am a bit of a psycho when it comes to food.
If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I’d have it tinned. With vinegar.
If you’re going to America, bring your own food.
Food can bring people together in a way nothing else could.
Nobody in Singapore drinks Singapore Slings. It’s one of the first things you find out there. What you do in Singapore is eat. It’s a really food-crazy culture, where all of this great food is available in a kind of hawker-stand environment.
Economize in other things if you must, wear threadbare clothes if necessary, but never cheat your body or brain by the quality and quantity of your food. Poor, cheap food which produces low vitality and inferior brain force is the worst kind of economy.
In World War II, jazz absolutely was the music of freedom, and then in the Cold War, behind the Iron Curtain, same thing. It was all underground, but they needed the food of freedom that jazz offered.
Kip Keino, Moses Tanui, Paul Tergat, they all come from my tribe. Some say it is the food we eat that makes us strong, the way we live. In the history of our people we wear no clothes and we are used to drinking the blood of animals.
I’ve done everything from stocking shelves at a natural food co-op, to baking bagels at Brueggers and bussing tables. Then I realized that jobs suck, but if you could get up at 6 A.M. and bake your own breakfast, that is very satisfying.
I love all kinds of bread. Whenever I crave junk food, I want salty things like peanuts or potato chips.
Eating street food in Bangkok is an experience.
I need protein from food rather than just protein supplements. I changed my diet.
Food feeds both the body and soul – there are clear reasons to eat a balanced diet, but there are also reasons you cling to your mom’s secret chicken noodle soup recipe when you’re sick.
There is abundant science out there that connects mercury exposure in vaccines to not only autism, but to ASD, to SIDS, to ADD, ADHD, language tics – which is like Tourette Syndrome – OCD, asthma, food allergies, and diabetes.
Give your kids a bloody knife and fork and let me put some fresh food in front of them they can eat.
God created the universe in such a manner that all in common might derive their food from it, and that the Earth should also be a property common to all.
Never eat while doing something else, because you won’t get the satisfaction from your food and you’ll be more likely to overeat.
The food we call soul food is slave food. We were forced to eat it.
I wake up in the morning thinking about food.
So, what’s it like in the real world? Well, the food is better, but beyond that, I don’t recommend it.
Almost every single commercial on television for shampoo, sports shoes, drinks, food, clothes, perfume, cars, etc., is a short fairy tale, for they are given magical qualities.
A waffle is like a pancake with a syrup trap.
If you’re out, and starving, and need a bite to eat, then you need fast food.
I’m encouraged because you pick up any food magazine and there’s two or three recipes involving Indian spices.
Nothing beats the food of Delhi.
Organic food is the best for you, and I’m eating the best, a lot of fresh vegetables. I also keep myself hydrated. It’s all made a big difference to my performance in the gym.
I’ll eat anything. I love food in general. I love traditional Mexican, carne asada. Just meat, beans, rice, and some good salsa.
The simplest fix for better grilling is to line the inside of your barbecue with tin foil. It dramatically affects how evenly the heat is distributed. That crusty black hibachi or Weber grill is doing your food no favors.
