Famous Quotes
- 'Shkoff' is to eat. 'Shkiaff' is to slap. Like, 'Gettouttahere I'm gonna give you a couple of shkiaffs,' or, 'Forget presentation, just shkiaff the food onto the plate.'
- Nadia Giosia on Food
- 'The Food Network' was just starting in New York, and I was getting lots of attention from Mesa Grill. They had no money, so if you couldn't get there by subway, you couldn't be on. It wasn't like TV was something I really wanted to do - but I knew it would be great publicity for my restaurants.
- Bobby Flay on Food
- A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
- Margaret Mead on Food
- A couple of months ago, I was down in Florida for the Food and Wine Festival. And this journalist grabbed me and said, 'How does it feel to be a TV guy? You're no longer in the restaurant business.' And I laughed. I asked him, 'How long do you think it takes me to do a season?' He said, 'Well, 200 days.' And I was like, '200 days? Try 20!'
- Tom Colicchio on Food
- A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
- 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 on 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.
- Joel Robuchon on Food
- A fly cannot go in unless it stops somewhere therefore weapons, fuel, food, money will not go to Afghanistan unless the neighbors of Afghanistan are working, are cooperating, either being themselves the origin or the transit.
- Lakhdar Brahimi on Food
- A gun can be dangerous. But a gun can protect you, you can hunt for food with it - you know, the tool itself is a tool. The intention of the party using the tool is a part of the process, right? You know: the knife cuts the steak, stabs the person, saves somebody from danger, cuts somebody out of a car.
- Peter Guber on Food
- A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.
- Margaret Fuller on Food
- A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
- Benjamin Franklin on Food
- A human being has been given an intellect to make choices, and we know there are other food sources that do not require the killing of a creature that would protest being killed.
- Mary Tyler Moore 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.
- Alex Kapranos on Food
- A lot of food shows need only to tempt. Some food shows only need to inspire, to empower. And there are a lot of shows that do that.
- Alton Brown on Food
- A lot of people think Japanese food is difficult, a lot of work. But you don't have to buy the knife I have. You don't have to train as long as I have. You can do my cooking in your kitchen.
- Masaharu Morimoto on Food
- A lot of restaurants serve good food, but they don't have very good service.
- Wolfgang Puck on Food
- A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.
- 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.
- Leo Tolstoy on Food
- A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible 'lifestyles' turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind.
- George Will on Food
- About 20 per cent of the population believe themselves to have a food allergy and only about five per cent actually do.
- John Warner on Food
- Absolutely, there is a connection between food and love. I always say, when there's love in my heart or I'm feeling particularly good, the food comes out that much better. And so I think Valentine's Day is a special day.
- Todd English on Food
- Acceptable food rots while we are chased from bins behind restaurants, chased from sleeping on the street, chased from relieving ourselves unless we pay for food or gas, until finally we are so hungry, sleepless, smelly, constipated and beaten-down that we simply die of lack of will to live.
- Jane Siberry on Food
- Actually, if I don't eat healthy food I don't feel good. For me, I crave healthy food.
- Kristin Cavallari on Food
- After all the fertile land in the immediate neighbourhood of the first settlers were cultivated, if capital and population increased, more food would be required, and it could only be procured from land not so advantageously situated.
- David Ricardo on Food
- After failing four times and after working for other people and realizing that nobody paid attention to the food like they should have, we wanted to just pay attention to the food and service.
- Paul Prudhomme on Food
- After my pregnancy, I discovered I have an allergy to yeast. Problem is, all the food I love has yeast in it. So I have to relearn how to cook.
- Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers and the extermination camps, the same thing as blockades and the reduction of countries to famine, the same thing as the manufacture of hydrogen bombs.
- Martin Heidegger on Food
- All artists are people of growth. It's like food, you take the good and leave the rest.
- Andrew Jack on Food
- All I ever wanted to do was to make food accessible to everyone to show that you can make mistakes - I do all the time - but it doesn't matter.
- Jamie Oliver on Food
- Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind.
- Norman Borlaug on Food
- Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.
- Mason Cooley on Food
- America is a such a melting pot, I'm not sure if roast chicken is the classic comfort food for everybody.
- Eric Ripert on Food
- America is becoming more and more dependent upon imports from foreign manufacturers than we are exports from our country in all fields: in appliances, in clothing, even food. This year America may become for the first time in its history a net food importer.
- Marcy Kaptur on Food
- An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.
- A. J. Liebling on Food
- And I think of that again as I've written in several of my beauty books, a lot of health comes from the proper eating habits, which are something that - you know, I come from a generation that wasn't - didn't have a lot of food.
- Joan Collins on Food
- 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.
- Simon Mainwaring on Food
- And on a Canadian set, everybody is equal. You get paid the same. You live together in barracks. You have a communal kitchen. You buy and cook your own food.
- And though various organizations in America and England collected money and sent food parcels to these refugees, nothing was ever received by the Spanish.
- Martha Gellhorn on Food
- And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.
- Animal substance seems to be the first food of all birds, even the granivorous tribes.
- William Bartram on Food
- Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.
- George Bernard Shaw on Food
- Animals that we eat are raised for food in the most economical way possible, and the serious food producers do it in the most humane way possible. I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages.
- Julia Child on Food
- Anorexia, you starve yourself. Bulimia, you binge and purge. You eat huge amounts of food until you're sick and then you throw up. And anorexia, you just deny yourself. It's about control.
- Tracey Gold on Food
- Another nice thing was that I would type out letters home for the admiral's stewards. They would then feed me the same food the admiral ate.
- Jack Adams on Food
- Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.
- Charles Baudelaire on Food
- Anybody who finds it easy to make money on the horses is probably in the dog food business.
- Franklin P. Jones on Food
- Anything is good if it's made of chocolate.
- Appetite, craving for food, is a constant and powerful stimulator of the gastric glands.
- Ivan Pavlov on Food
- As a chef, I had started working with groups like Share Our Strength and various local food banks in New York, raising money for hunger-related issues. And not only me, but the entire restaurant industry has been very focused on this issue.
- Tom Colicchio on Food
- As a freelance writer, I'd be asked to become an expert for various magazines on any subject, whether food or wine or history or the life span of veterinarians. I was completely unschooled in any of these things.
- John Hodgman on Food
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