882 private quotes tagged food

“The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food.” — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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“I wanted to be a great white hunter, a prospector for gold, or a slave trader. But then, when I was eight, my parents sent me to a boarding school in South Africa. It was the equivalent of a British public school with cold showers, beatings and rotten food. But what it also had was a library full of books.” — Wilbur Smith

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“I'm not really into gourmet food I'm the kind of guy who just stops by a place that looks good rather than heading for the restaurant of the moment.” — Lee Child

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“The American public is not aware that there might be potential allergenic and toxic reactions. With regular food, at least people know which foods they have an allergy to.” — Jeremy Rifkin

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“I worked for the Office of Management and Budget in the White House, on nuclear energy policy. But I decided it would be much more fun to have a specialty food store, so I left Washington D.C. and moved to the Hamptons. And how glad I am that I did!” — Ina Garten

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“Let's keep the chemists over here and the food over here, that's my feeling. What do I know? But that is a big aspect of fast food is their ability to artificially taint the colors and the smells and stuff to stimulate appetite.” — Greg Kinnear

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“Long as I was riding in a big Cadillac and dressed nice and had plenty of food, that's all I cared about.” — Etta James

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“Even though I grew up as a Sephardic Jew in Brooklyn where we ate Syrian food and went to temple, it was still America.” — Isaac Mizrahi

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“Food is meant to be used as fuel for our bodies. If you're using it for any other reasons, take a step back and ask yourself, 'What's up.'” — Jennifer Hudson

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“Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is.” — Isaac Mizrahi

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“Australia is the only island continent on the planet, which means that changes caused by planet-warming pollution - warmer seas, which can drive stronger storms, and more acidic oceans, which wreak havoc on the food chain - are even more deadly here.” — Jeff Goodell

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“With nine degrees of warming, computer models project that Australia will look like a disaster movie. Habitats for most vertebrates will vanish. Water supply to the Murray-Darling Basin will fall by half, severely curtailing food production.” — Jeff Goodell

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“The public should know that the liability issues here have yet to be resolved, or even raised. If you're a farmer and you're growing a genetically engineering food crop, those genes are going to flow to the other farm.” — Jeremy Rifkin

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“We are already producing enough food to feed the world. We already have technology in place that allows us to produce more than we can find a market for.” — Jeremy Rifkin

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“The thing about all my food is that everything is a remembered flavor. Maybe it's something I had as a child or maybe it's something I had in Milan, but I want it to taste better than you ever thought.” — Ina Garten

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“I'm obsessed with food!” — Sofia Vergara

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“I want to make wines that harmonize with food - wines that almost hug your tongue with gentleness.” — Robert Mondavi

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“It's my first presenting role so I'll be nervous, but it's going to be great fun. I can't wait to sample the food and meet the celebrities. Hopefully I can inject some of my own glamour.” — Nicole Appleton

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“It's easy to be lazy when there's food lying around backstage or there's a fast-food joint a couple blocks away. But if you walk a little further, ask around a bit, of course there are exciting things to discover.” — Alex Kapranos

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“You have to find a balance with food in your life - you can't take out food. It can be absolutely terrifying.” — Carre Otis

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“I have an enormous fondness for delicious food. It's very comforting.” — Teri Garr

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“The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they're trying to keep out.” — Calvin Trillin

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“Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.” — Quincy Jones

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“When the farmer can sell directly to the consumer, it is a more active process. There's more contact. The consumer can know, who am I buying this from? What's their name? Do they have a face? Is the food they are selling coming out of Mexico with pesticides?” — Jerry Brown

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“Give your kids a bloody knife and fork and let me put some fresh food in front of them they can eat.” — Jamie Oliver

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