Famous Quotes

"Wine, like food, is so emotional. If you think about it, so much of the courting ritual is surrounded by wine and food. There's a built-in romance to wine."

Padma Lakshmi on Food

More quotes about Food

• "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead."

  Oscar Wilde on Food

• "You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans."

  Ronald Reagan on Food

• "It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available."

  Ronald Reagan on Food

• "You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six."

  Yogi Berra on Food

• "Beware the hobby that eats."

  Benjamin Franklin on Food

More quotes by Padma Lakshmi

• "In truth, I am a single mother. But I don't feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has a whole other side of her family who loves her, too. And so Krishna is parented by me, but also by her grandmother and aunts and cousins and uncles and friends."

• "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."

• "The best thing you can do for someone is make them a beautiful plate of food. How else can you invade someone's body without actually touching them?"

• "I really like to sometimes go into food detox and eat very simply."