882 private quotes tagged food

“And if you look at the reality in the United States, where you have more than 40 million people below the poverty line and 42 million on food stamps, and then you look at poverty around the world, clearly the way we're running the engine of capitalism is not serving us well.” — Simon Mainwaring

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“It has never made any sense to argue that, unique among the people of the world, Arabs are more concerned on a day-to-day basis about the treatment of people they don't know than they are about how they're going to put food on their own tables, or whether their sons will ever find a job.” — John Podhoretz

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“When I go on Japanese Airlines, I really love it because I like Japanese food.” — Phil Collins

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“We must pay greater attention to keeping our bodies and minds healthy and able to heal. Yet we are making it difficult for our defences to work. We allow things to be sold that should not be called food. Many have no nutritive value and lead to obesity, salt imbalance, and allergies.” — David Suzuki

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“I have an amazing relationship with food.” — Katharine McPhee

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“If I could only have one type of food with me, I would bring soy sauce. The reason being that if I have soy sauce, I can flavor a lot of things.” — Martin Yan

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“Get people back into the kitchen and combat the trend toward processed food and fast food.” — Andrew Weil

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“People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue.” — Michael Pollan

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“Eating without conversation is only stoking.” — Marcelene Cox

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“Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply.” — Norman Borlaug

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“If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now.” — James Lovelock

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“I moved to New York last year and I love it. It's a huge change and I've always wanted to spend time there. It's like a more intense London, and everything's up a few notches. The lights are brighter, the pace is faster and the food's better.” — Rachel Weisz

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“I always knew that food and wine were vital, with my mother being Italian and a good cook.” — Robert Mondavi

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“Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.” — Mary Catherine Bateson

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“Money spent on carbon cuts is money we can't use for effective investments in food aid, micronutrients, HIV/AIDS prevention, health and education infrastructure, and clean water and sanitation.” — Bjorn Lomborg

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“Instead of going out to dinner, buy good food. Cooking at home shows such affection. In a bad economy, it's more important to make yourself feel good.” — Ina Garten

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“You go to a show, and there's no food at all, so if you're doing shows back to back, you can forget eating. I remember standing up in the bath one day, and there was a mirror in front of me, and I was so thin! I hated it. I never liked being that skinny.” — Kate Moss

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“When I go to a restaurant, I eat three-quarters of the food in front of me. That cuts my calorie intake by 25 percent.” — Bobby Flay

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“An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.” — A. J. Liebling

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“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

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“You know, for 300 years it's been kind of the same. There are restaurants in New Orleans that the menu hasn't changed in 125 years, so how is one going to change or evolve the food?” — Emeril Lagasse

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“I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.” — Michael Palin

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“I will come up with a project that will wipe out poverty in the Philippines in two years. I want to remove the people from economic crisis by using the Marcos wealth. Long after I'm gone, people will remember me for building them homes and roads and hospitals and giving them food.” — Imelda Marcos

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“Start with a clean grill. Keep it clean by brushing with a wire brush after preheating, and again after cooking. Make sure to oil your grates and your food before putting it on the grill to keep it from sticking.” — Emeril Lagasse

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“I've been to therapists my whole life. I find the less attention I pay to food, the healthier I am. Any obsession is dangerous. And a whole country that's obsessed with one thing, unless it's, like, jeans, it's very dangerous. Everyone's obsessed right now with carbohydrates in this country. It's ridiculous.” — Christina Ricci

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