Food Quotes

It's fun to have money, but the more money I get, the less interesting it becomes. If you don't have very much, you have to think about it. If you are starving, you become interested in food. If you are struggling to pay the bills, money becomes tragically important.

Cooking is like doing yoga. There is a lot of satisfaction in cooking food for others.

In Buddhist culture, offering food to the monk symbolizes the action of goodness, and if you have no opportunity to support the practice of spirituality, then you are somehow left in the realm of darkness.

I would like to see people more aware of where their food comes from. I would like to see small farmers empowered. I feed my daughter almost exclusively organic food.

I'd rather have a good food - lots and lots of different varieties of good foods - than search for something perfect.

I promised her an interesting life and good food, and the rest is history.

I relish North Indian and Mughlai food. I'm also a big fan of good steaks and cold cuts.

The body doesn't accept the lack of food, and it suffers from the temptation of food and from other aspects which gnaw at it perpetually. The body fights back sure enough, but at the end of the day, everything returns to the primary consideration - that is, the mind.

I love England, especially the food. There's nothing I like more than a lovely bowl of pasta.

My goal is to make Italian food clean and accessible and beautiful and tasty, with simple ingredients that people can find at a local grocery store, because people don't want to go to a gourmet shop in search of items that will sit in their pantry for years after they use just a teaspoon or pinch of them.

People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in 'em as food.

I think the most wonderful thing in the world is another chef. I'm always excited about learning new things about food.

I'm a bit of a gourmet chef. I love cooking - mostly Thai food.

The body needs food, warmth and water, but your heart needs more.

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.

I have an enormous fondness for delicious food. It's very comforting.

For me, I love food. It's my greatest pleasure and also the thing that could ruin you as well. It's one of those things where, if you're not thoughtful about it, it could be unhealthy. But if there's a mindfulness about it; it actually is a wonderful tool of emotional expression.

The bottom line - customers want delicious food served quickly in an interactive format, and they are increasingly unwilling to compromise.

If you like good ol' fashion Southern soul food then, yes, I am a good cook! My specialty is chicken dumplings and poke salad.

The cure until the late 1940s, when there was an antibiotic discovered for tuberculosis, was basically rest. It was fresh, cold air, lots of food - five meals a day, lots of sleep, not very much talking, and for some people, complete stillness.