“I am a filmmaker. That is all I've ever been. You know, Martin Scorsese makes films about the mob. And I make movies about food.”
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“Do not allow watching food to replace making food.”
“Keep it simple in the kitchen. If you use quality ingredients, you don't need anything fancy to make food delicious: just a knife, a cutting board, and some good nonstick cookware, and you're set.”
“I hate menus, I hate choosing food. I just want to be brought. Bring me dinner!”
“Food - I love nuts. I eat them all the time, they're easy to carry around, and I am never hungry all day long.”
“Most food you drop is still perfectly edible. If it was in your eyesight the whole time, you can pick it up and eat it.”
“There are a lot of food Nazis in the U.S., but I believe if you can show people what's really important, they'll judge the rest for themselves.”
“Food is no longer sacred to us: in becoming too efficient we've changed its nature.”
“I think wine is such a big universe that it's kind of like food - it's intimidating to a lot of people, myself included.”
“People always comment about my clothes. They don't think a fashionable woman can love food and be knowledgeable and actually cook.”
“Without food, man can live at most but a few weeks without it, all other components of social justice are meaningless.”
“I went in saying I wanted to be the food guy.”
“Jay Leno is not a guy who likes change. He eats the same food every day.”
“You know the great irony is that people think you have to have money to enjoy fine food, which is a shame.”
“When I come home from a shoot, I'd rather reheat food I've made than eat takeout.”
“I've always hoped 'Chopped' would telegraph our enormous affection and love and admiration for chefs and food, but at the same time, we are inflicting extraordinary cruelty on them.”
“Believe me, I understand the need for easy and speedy. After a 12-hour day of shooting 'Chopped,' say, I'm talking stir-fry, spaghetti, heck, peanut-butter sandwiches. But that's not about the joy of food. That's survival.”
“I think what I do differently from a lot of TV chefs is that I break down barriers and make fine food more accessible to the regular person, who might be intimidated. I try hard, particularly with wine, to make it not intimidating. It's sort of a teaching job.”
“The interesting thing is, while we die of diseases of affluence from eating all these fatty meats, our poor brethren in the developing world die of diseases of poverty, because the land is not used now to grow food grain for their families.”
“Back in 1983, the United States government approved the release of the first genetically modified organism. In this case, it was a bacteria that prevents frost on food crops.”
“I don't enjoy good food. I don't enjoy flashy cars. I don't care if I live in a dump. I don't enjoy good clothes. This is the best I've dressed in months.”
“It's all about who's where on the food chain. When I'm the story editor, I expect my writers to follow my vision. When I'm working for another editor, I'm obliged to follow their vision.”
“There are pockets of great food in Spain, but there are also pockets of very mediocre food in Spain, and the same in Morocco and the same in Croatia and the same in Germany and the same in Austria.”
“Everyone makes pesto in a food processor. But the texture is better with a mortar and pestle, and it's just as fast.”