“In corn, I think I've found the key to the American food chain. If you look at a fast-food meal, a McDonald's meal, virtually all the carbon in it - and what we eat is mostly carbon - comes from corn.”
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“At home I serve the kind of food I know the story behind.”
“Corn is an efficient way to get energy calories off the land and soybeans are an efficient way of getting protein off the land, so we've designed a food system that produces a lot of cheap corn and soybeans resulting in a lot of cheap fast food.”
“Perhaps more than any other, the food industry is very sensitive to consumer demand.”
“Fairness forces you - even when you're writing a piece highly critical of, say, genetically modified food, as I have done - to make sure you represent the other side as extensively and as accurately as you possibly can.”
“If you're out, and starving, and need a bite to eat, then you need fast food.”
“A few years ago, kids from poor areas in France were asked to draw items of food. For a chicken, they drew a drumstick. For a fish, they drew a fish stick. Those are extremes, but there is a lot that needs to be done to help children discover good food.”
“I think the water dictates how food will taste in a country. In England the apples taste unlike apples grown in any other place. England is an island, there's a lot of salt in the air and in the water. I think that has something to do with it.”
“Latin food suffers like Chinese. You can do marginal Chinese and be successful. You can do crappy Mexican and be packed.”
“The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums.”
“I get way too much happiness from good food.”
“I believe food is the most brilliant invention ever.”
“I am a serious food lover and Peruvian cuisine is one of the best in the world.”
“From the minute I wake up until I go to bed I think about food.”
“My perfect day is constantly changing. Right now, it would be to lie around in a hammock reading with a portable phone and a table of food next to it. I would spend all day there. And that's all that I can possibly come up with on the spur of the moment.”
“For me, first, it's finding quiet in my life - and I do that through yoga and meditation. It's also been a matter of changing the way I eat, because I think what we eat can inform who we are food is a chemical and a drug to a certain extent.”
“What I've been developing is a vegan fast food chain and vegan food markets.”
“I got a fascination with food.”
“I had no accomplishments except surviving. But that isn't enough in the community where I came from, because everybody was doing it. So I wasn't prepared for America, where everybody is glowing with good teeth and good clothes and food.”
“My parents owned a soul food diner. It inspired me to go to culinary school.”
“I love tiny, plastic realistic food magnets. I don't know why. They're hilarious.”
“I'm not a food critic, and I'm not really an authority to write anything on food.”
“A lot of food criticism has a similar flavor to it, and I'm probably going to write about it in a different way.”
“My mother accidentally gave me food poisoning. She fed me baby carrots for a snack before Christmas dinner - but they had expired in June! I threw up for the next 24 hours.”