“When I got to France I realized I didn't know very much about food at all. I'd never had a real cake. I'd had those cakes from cake mixes or the ones that have a lot of baking powder in them. A really good French cake doesn't have anything like that in it - it's all egg power.”
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“And if you look at the reality in the United States, where you have more than 40 million people below the poverty line and 42 million on food stamps, and then you look at poverty around the world, clearly the way we're running the engine of capitalism is not serving us well.”
“The vast amount of waste and sheer stupidity in government - from the Pentagon to the Food and Drug Administration - could fill committee agendas for years.”
“I do not knowingly kill any living thing - including insects or rodents - and I thank my food for sustaining me.”
“If you don't want women to do whatever they need to do then you must provide them with food, you must provide them with shelter and their basic human rights.”
“Cats are very independent animals. They're very sexy, if you want. Dogs are different. They're familiar. They're obedient. You call a cat, you go, 'Cat, come here.' He doesn't come to you unless you have something in your hand that he thinks might be food. They're very free animals, and I like that.”
“Cats have a scam going - you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away that's the deal.”
“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.”
“Make food a very incidental part of your life by filling your life so full of meaningful things that you'll hardly have time to think about food.”
“I love places that have an incredible history. I love the Italian way of life. I love the food. I love the people. I love the attitudes of Italians.”
“The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose.”
“It has never made any sense to argue that, unique among the people of the world, Arabs are more concerned on a day-to-day basis about the treatment of people they don't know than they are about how they're going to put food on their own tables, or whether their sons will ever find a job.”
“When I was 19, I made my first good week's pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked.”
“Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.”
“You're raising a kid and you give it food and shelter and, most importantly, you give it the feeling that it's special. I think people react to celebrities like that - I mean, they treat celebrities like children.”
“I just spend my money on the essentials. Just basically food and shelter.”
“Everything in food is science. The only subjective part is when you eat it.”
“The kitchen's a laboratory, and everything that happens there has to do with science. It's biology, chemistry, physics. Yes, there's history. Yes, there's artistry. Yes, to all of that. But what happened there, what actually happens to the food is all science.”
“If I can wake up everyday before I die and know that I don't have to serve anyone food or drinks, I will be happy!”
“I am thankful I was born in America, although if I gain any more weight the burqa thing may start to seem like a good idea to me. See? Another plus about America, you can always find some food.”
“I'm girlie in the sense that I like makeup, but I also love sports and man food.”
“As we say in the American Institute of Wine and Food, small helpings, no seconds. A little bit of everything. No snacking. And have a good time.”
“Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.”
“I like being able to walk into an old town and find good local food.”