882 private quotes tagged food

“I love South American food, and I haven't really been down there. I really need a vacation.” — Nate Silver

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“Keep it simple in the kitchen. If you use quality ingredients, you don't need anything fancy to make food delicious: just a knife, a cutting board, and some good nonstick cookware, and you're set.” — Curtis Stone

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“Food is no longer sacred to us: in becoming too efficient we've changed its nature.” — Mehmet Oz

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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.” — Ted Allen

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“Without food, man can live at most but a few weeks without it, all other components of social justice are meaningless.” — Norman Borlaug

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“I wasn't passionate about food until I'd been cooking for a while. I started long before food became part of the mainstream media. I just wanted to cook, period.” — Bobby Flay

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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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“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.” — Ted Allen

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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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“Back in 1983, the United States government approved the release of the first genetically modified organism. In this case, it was a bacteria that prevents frost on food crops.” — Jeremy Rifkin

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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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“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

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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 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

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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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“It's all about who's where on the food chain. When I'm the story editor, I expect my writers to follow my vision. When I'm working for another editor, I'm obliged to follow their vision.” — Len Wein

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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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“I think wine is such a big universe that it's kind of like food - it's intimidating to a lot of people, myself included.” — Padma Lakshmi

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“I love home cooking, and I'm not a great one for fast food.” — Bear Grylls

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“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

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“Even more importantly, it's wine, food and the arts. Incorporating those three enhances the quality of life.” — Robert Mondavi

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“Unlike curing cancer or heart disease, we already know how to beat hunger: food.” — Mario Batali

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“My last meal? The food would be much less significant than the company.” — Mario Batali

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“When you love food as much as I do, staying healthy is not easy. I mean, moderation, not deprivation. That's my new way of living. I always want more and that's just my life.” — Carnie Wilson

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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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