882 private quotes tagged food

“Doing things like playing music, something that's so natural and basic to human function, running around in nature, eating delicious food. These things are intrinsic in basic, primordial to human beings, so that's sort of a way to return to a blank canvas, allowing my true personality to return.” — Ezra Miller

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“I don't like to waste anything. Any food left over from the night before is always eaten the next day.” — Martin Yan

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“I buy food and gasoline - that's it.” — Kat Dennings

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“I used to get criticized for putting food in novels.” — Jim Harrison

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“At home I serve the kind of food I know the story behind.” — Michael Pollan

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“It makes sense that we came up with our public school system during the Industrial Revolution because it's like everybody is a factory worker, eating their terrible food and going back to the room where you're silent and listening to an idiot. That's an epitomizing idea, getting called 'Nothing' for your whole high school experience.” — Ezra Miller

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“Yeah, well, food is always a part of everything.” — Lisa Loeb

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“We simply can no longer afford to deny the full potential of one half of the population. The world needs to tap into the talent and wisdom of women. Whether the issue is food security, economic recovery, health, or peace and security, the participation of women is needed now more than ever.” — Michelle Bachelet

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“Corn is an efficient way to get energy calories off the land and soybeans are an efficient way of getting protein off the land, so we've designed a food system that produces a lot of cheap corn and soybeans resulting in a lot of cheap fast food.” — Michael Pollan

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“If you go back to the Greeks and Romans, they talk about all three - wine, food, and art - as a way of enhancing life.” — Robert Mondavi

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“Hash browns are my favorite breakfast food.” — Rachel Bilson

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“Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.” — Wendell Berry

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“I think the water dictates how food will taste in a country. In England the apples taste unlike apples grown in any other place. England is an island, there's a lot of salt in the air and in the water. I think that has something to do with it.” — Gael Garcia Bernal

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“I always knew the importance of it, since I was three or four years old my mother used to feed me wine and water. I grew up with wine as liquid food.” — Robert Mondavi

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“In corn, I think I've found the key to the American food chain. If you look at a fast-food meal, a McDonald's meal, virtually all the carbon in it - and what we eat is mostly carbon - comes from corn.” — Michael Pollan

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“As a freelance writer, I'd be asked to become an expert for various magazines on any subject, whether food or wine or history or the life span of veterinarians. I was completely unschooled in any of these things.” — John Hodgman

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“Fairness forces you - even when you're writing a piece highly critical of, say, genetically modified food, as I have done - to make sure you represent the other side as extensively and as accurately as you possibly can.” — Michael Pollan

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“Latin food suffers like Chinese. You can do marginal Chinese and be successful. You can do crappy Mexican and be packed.” — Aaron Sanchez

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“A few years ago, kids from poor areas in France were asked to draw items of food. For a chicken, they drew a drumstick. For a fish, they drew a fish stick. Those are extremes, but there is a lot that needs to be done to help children discover good food.” — Joel Robuchon

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“The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums.” — Peter De Vries

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“I loved everything about Spain - the people, the language, and the food!” — Karlie Kloss

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“My quest these days is to find my long lost inner child, but I'm afraid if I do, I'll end up with food in my hair and way too in love with the cats.” — Kenny Loggins

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“When I hosted the dinner I served fast food hamburgers. It had nothing to do with black, white, purple, yellow, green race. it had nothing to do with Tiger or his family or his golf game.” — Fuzzy Zoeller

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“If you're out, and starving, and need a bite to eat, then you need fast food.” — Nicholas Hoult

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“One can hardly be Indian and not know that almost every accent, which hand you eat your food with, has some deeper symbolic truth, reality.” — Anish Kapoor

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