“When I'm writing, my neural pathways get blocked. I can't read. I can barely hold a conversation without forgetting words and names. I wish I could wear the same clothes and eat the same food each day.”

“Food is not just what we put in our mouths to fill up it is culture and identity. Reason plays some role in our decisions about food, but it's rarely driving the car.”

“Everyone makes pesto in a food processor. But the texture is better with a mortar and pestle, and it's just as fast.”

“I don't really believe in diets. I love food... If I deprive myself, I'm going to want it more. I snack on yogurt, raw cashews and cherry tomatoes.”

“The world spends $40 billion a year on pet food.”

“I like to eat and I love the diversity of foods.”

“Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.”

“My feeling is that labels are for canned food... I am what I am - and I know what I am.”

“Working at the Food Bank with my kids is an eye-opener. The face of hunger isn't the bum on the street drinking Sterno it's the working poor. They don't look any different, they don't behave any differently, they're not really any less educated. They are incredibly less privileged, and that's it.”

“Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.”

“I'm a filmmaker who decided to go to culinary school. All I picked up was the fact if I didn't understand what was going on with every single ingredient, I could be qualifying for, like, the lunch food job at my daughter's school.”

“Food is available, but it cannot be shipped into an area, so the people in that area suffer the consequences.”

“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.”

“Used to be, conservatives revered the Average American, that Norman Rockwell oil painting of diner food, humble faith, honest toil, and Capraesque virtue.”

“We take food for granted, but it isn't a luxury for many people.”

“How large and varied is the educational bill of fare set before every young gentleman in Great Britain and to judge by the mental stamina it affords him in most cases, what a waste of good food it is!”

“There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation, and support from others.”

“Chicken fat, beef fat, fish fat, fried foods - these are the foods that fuel our fat genes by giving them raw materials for building body fat.”

“Local and regional food systems are about opportunity.”

“Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.”

“It makes me so angry - there's enough food in the world but people are starving. It's all political.”