“Though I love the luxury of the Waldorf Towers, room service there doesn't do soul food.”

“I don't need the fillers, additives, excessive amounts of sugars, fats, salts and other measures taken to taint the natural goodness of real food.”

“If you only design menus that are essentially junk or fast food, the whole infrastructure supports junk.”

“I like food too much to go on some crazy diet. French fries are my favorite downfall.”

“We have by far the most expensive health system in the world. We spend 50 percent more per person than the next most costly nation. Americans spend more on health care than housing or food.”

“I went in saying I wanted to be the food guy.”

“I like to cook Puerto Rican food. That's what I grew up on: rice, beans, meat, some Italian-American food. I know my way around the kitchen.”

“For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable.”

“If newspapers were a baseball team, they would be the Mets - without the hope for those folks at the very pinnacle of the financial food chain - who average nearly $24 million a year in income - 'next year.'”

“It's fun to pick a cuisine and say I'm going to research Ethiopian food, and see what it's all about. You find that there are a lot of similarities in cuisines from around the world and a lot of similar flavors.”

“My work has also motivated me to put a lot of time into seeking out good food and to spend more money on it.”

“I love good food. I'm an epicurean, that's for sure... But I am not really a good cook.”

“I do love Italian food. Any kind of pasta or pizza. My new pig out food is Indian food. I eat Indian food like three times a week. It's so good.”

“We're the biggest food and agriculture company in the world.”

“Food is meant to be used as fuel for our bodies. If you're using it for any other reasons, take a step back and ask yourself, 'What's up.'”

“It was dog food. Beef livers with onions in a can. You open it up and it looks like vomit.”

“Each of us needs something - food, liquor, pot, whatever - to help us survive. Dracula needs blood.”

“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.”

“I'm the only girl on The Food Network who grills - I have two bestselling grilling books. I try to really focus on what men and women can do outside together out on the grill. I think it's really fun to have men and women out there together, having fun, working and enjoying themselves.”

“Entrepreneurs always pitch their idea as 'the X of Y', so this is going to be 'the Microsoft of food.' And yet disruptive innovations usually don't have that character. Most of the time, if something seems like a good idea, it probably isn't.”

“I was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina.”