Food Quotes

Part of treatment for drugs and alcohol is you abstain from these, but with eating disorders you can't abstain from food so the treatment is longer than drugs and alcohol.

I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.

The impetus behind going to graduate school was a year after graduating from college spent in Dallas working at the dog food factory and Bank America and not having met success in my chosen field, which at that point was being an actress.

The passion of the Italian or the Italian-American population is endless for food and lore and everything about it.

I've always wanted to be someone with credibility, and I want my food to speak for myself.

I think one of the terrible things today is that people have this deathly fear of food: fear of eggs, say, or fear of butter. Most doctors feel that you can have a little bit of everything.

A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible "lifestyles" turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind.

If you're going to America, bring your own food.

Rice at present prices provides more food for the money than most of the other cereals.

Bologna is the best city in Italy for food and has the least number of tourists. With its medieval beauty, it has it all.

Contaminated food is a major cause of diarrhea, substantially contributing to malnutrition and killing about 2.2 million people each year, most of them children.

If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him... the people who give you their food give you their heart.

I think there is a real misconception about Indian food being super spicy. And I know that's because when you go into an Indian restaurant, it is pretty spicy. But it doesn't have to be. In fact, my husband can't handle a lot of heat. I've had to temper my cooking so that he can eat with me.

A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

I couldn't care less about actors' trailers and food on sets and stuff like that - I just want to act.

All I ever wanted to do was to make food accessible to everyone; to show that you can make mistakes - I do all the time - but it doesn't matter.

How large and varied is the educational bill of fare set before every young gentleman in Great Britain; and to judge by the mental stamina it affords him in most cases, what a waste of good food it is!

My gosh, I love food. If I wasn't an actor, I could be a completely different body shape right now.

The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.

But it's really hard to eat good when you're traveling because you see fast food and you want to go to this restaurant and that restaurant.

Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.

Food is your body's fuel. Without fuel, your body wants to shut down.

There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation, and support from others.

The food pyramid is very complicated. It doesn't give you as much info in a quick glance as the plate does.

Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.

This June, I'll travel once again to the Food and Wine Magazine Classic in Aspen, Colorado. For many years, my dear friend Julia Child and I have teamed up to teach classes together at the event; for the past seven years, my daughter, Claudine, has been my cooking partner on stage.

If food were free, why work?

Mostly I enjoy the restaurants (my husband is a chef), though I wish we had a wider diversity of ethnic food.

Well, we lost a lot of our independence already. We are dependent on China for credit. We are dependent on Middle Eastern countries for energy supplies. And many Americans are dependent on the government for their income, health care, education of their children, food stamps.

With rising incomes, the share of expenditures for food products declines. The resulting shift in expenditures affects demand patterns and employment structures.