Quotes on Food

Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; and good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts.

Food is our common ground, a universal experience.

A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch.

By making this wine known to the public, I have rendered my country as great a service as if I had enabled it to pay back the national debt.

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.

French cooking is really the result of peasants figuring out how to extract flavor from pedestrian ingredients. So most of the food that we think of as elite didn't start out that way.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

In 1968, I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry, and unhappy like we do.

Looking back now, I realise that belonging to the family of a labourer actually helped to prepare my body for boxing. There were many times when my family didn't have enough food or warm clothing to go around. All this made me physically, as well as emotionally, tough.

We owe much to the fruitful meditation of our sages, but a sane view of life is, after all, elaborated mainly in the kitchen.

Not a whole lot of us are wrestling somebody for a canned food item in the supermarket or having an ax fight in the jungle clearing. Instead, we sit and think about taxes and the ozone layer.

A lot of what you see in the supermarket I would argue is not really food. It's what I call edible, food-like substances.

I'll never, ever be full. I'll always be hungry. Obviously, I'm not talking about food. Growing up, I had nothing for such a long time. Someone told me a long time ago, and I've never forgotten it, 'Once you've ever been hungry, really, really hungry, then you'll never, ever be full.'

Ski racing is not about how much you weigh. If weight was the key, everybody would be sucking down food.

Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

The people who give you their food give you their heart.

There is a daily discussion with our servants about the price of food and the number of loaves: a conference with our presbyters to consider the sins of our people is a very rare occurrence.

I am not a glutton - I am an explorer of food

Food is medicine. We can actually change our gene expressions with the foods we eat.

Some people who are obsessed with food become gourmet chefs. Others become eating disorders.