882 private quotes tagged food

“The American public is not aware that there might be potential allergenic and toxic reactions. With regular food, at least people know which foods they have an allergy to.”— Jeremy Rifkin

“I worked for the Office of Management and Budget in the White House, on nuclear energy policy. But I decided it would be much more fun to have a specialty food store, so I left Washington D.C. and moved to the Hamptons. And how glad I am that I did!”— Ina Garten

“Let's keep the chemists over here and the food over here, that's my feeling. What do I know? But that is a big aspect of fast food is their ability to artificially taint the colors and the smells and stuff to stimulate appetite.”— Greg Kinnear

“Long as I was riding in a big Cadillac and dressed nice and had plenty of food, that's all I cared about.”— Etta James

“Even though I grew up as a Sephardic Jew in Brooklyn where we ate Syrian food and went to temple, it was still America.”— Isaac Mizrahi

“Food is meant to be used as fuel for our bodies. If you're using it for any other reasons, take a step back and ask yourself, 'What's up.'”— Jennifer Hudson

“Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is.”— Isaac Mizrahi

“Australia is the only island continent on the planet, which means that changes caused by planet-warming pollution - warmer seas, which can drive stronger storms, and more acidic oceans, which wreak havoc on the food chain - are even more deadly here.”— Jeff Goodell

“With nine degrees of warming, computer models project that Australia will look like a disaster movie. Habitats for most vertebrates will vanish. Water supply to the Murray-Darling Basin will fall by half, severely curtailing food production.”— Jeff Goodell

“The public should know that the liability issues here have yet to be resolved, or even raised. If you're a farmer and you're growing a genetically engineering food crop, those genes are going to flow to the other farm.”— Jeremy Rifkin

“We are already producing enough food to feed the world. We already have technology in place that allows us to produce more than we can find a market for.”— Jeremy Rifkin

“The thing about all my food is that everything is a remembered flavor. Maybe it's something I had as a child or maybe it's something I had in Milan, but I want it to taste better than you ever thought.”— Ina Garten

“I'm obsessed with food!”— Sofia Vergara

“I want to make wines that harmonize with food - wines that almost hug your tongue with gentleness.”— Robert Mondavi

“It's my first presenting role so I'll be nervous, but it's going to be great fun. I can't wait to sample the food and meet the celebrities. Hopefully I can inject some of my own glamour.”— Nicole Appleton

“It's easy to be lazy when there's food lying around backstage or there's a fast-food joint a couple blocks away. But if you walk a little further, ask around a bit, of course there are exciting things to discover.”— Alex Kapranos

“You have to find a balance with food in your life - you can't take out food. It can be absolutely terrifying.”— Carre Otis

“I have an enormous fondness for delicious food. It's very comforting.”— Teri Garr

“The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they're trying to keep out.”— Calvin Trillin

“Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.”— Quincy Jones

“When the farmer can sell directly to the consumer, it is a more active process. There's more contact. The consumer can know, who am I buying this from? What's their name? Do they have a face? Is the food they are selling coming out of Mexico with pesticides?”— Jerry Brown

“Give your kids a bloody knife and fork and let me put some fresh food in front of them they can eat.”— Jamie Oliver

“I love doing demonstrations. I think to be a great chef you have to be a great teacher. I love doing classes with people who love food and enjoy food, bringing them all around one table so to speak.”— Michael Symon

“I wouldn't say that processed food, ready meals and even takeaways aren't relevant to modern life, it's just that over the past 40 years there are three generations of people who have come out of school and gone through their home life without ever being shown how to cook properly.”— Jamie Oliver

“A dead cow or sheep lying in a pasture is recognized as carrion. The same sort of a carcass dressed and hung up in a butcher's stall passes as food.”— John Harvey Kellogg