“For some Chicago expats, food is the medicine that blunts the pain of separation.”

“Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.”

“When I took command in Vietnam, I gave great emphasis to food and medical care - and to the mail.”

“You have to find a balance with food in your life - you can't take out food. It can be absolutely terrifying.”

“If I'm making a movie and get hungry, I call time-out and eat some crackers.”

“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.”

“I'm not a food critic, and I'm not really an authority to write anything on food.”

“I don't categorize food as bad or a guilty pleasure.”

“Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.”

“There is great food in Vegas.”

“While weight loss is important, what's more important is the quality of food you put in your body - food is information that quickly changes your metabolism and genes.”

“The disparity between a restaurant's price and food quality rises in direct proportion to the size of the pepper mill.”

“In Italy, they add work and life on to food and wine.”

“Let us build a 21st-century rural economy of cutting-edge companies and technologies that lead us to energy and food security. Such an investment will revitalize rural America, re-establish our moral leadership on climate security and eliminate our addiction to foreign oil.”

“I love spaghetti and meatballs... I eat a lot.”

“What is food to one man is bitter poison to others.”

“Sandwiches are wonderful. You don't need a spoon or a plate!”

“There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.”

“I'm very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn't fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Nigerian environment, because my parents were always working. My father was with D.C. Cabs and my mother worked in fast food and was a nurse.”

“If my daughter wants to get into this business, I would support that decision. She's going to have a hard time not being in it. She loves food and she's around it all the time.”

“As long as there's pasta and Chinese food in the world, I'm okay.”