“You don't have to look far to taste some of the best food the world has to offer. I'd pit my grandmother against a 3-star Michelin chef any day.”

“Appetite, craving for food, is a constant and powerful stimulator of the gastric glands.”

“We were raised in an Italian-American household, although we didn't speak Italian in the house. We were very proud of being Italian, and had Italian music, ate Italian food.”

“My grandmother was the greatest cook in the world. She could just go in there, the whole kitchen would look like a tornado hit it and then she'd come out with the best food. Then she'd sit at the table and she wouldn't eat!”

“The most used piece of kit in my kitchen is my saucepan. I use it every morning to cook my porridge in. The least used piece of equipment? I'd say a food mixer. I've never used it, I don't really know what they're for.”

“Shop often, shop hard, and spend for the best stuff available - logic dictates that you can make delicious food only with delicious ingredients.”

“I used to hang out by the food table at parties because you don't have to talk to anybody. If you do then you can talk about the food.”

“Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.”

“Attitudes toward food have completely changed.”

“We had the best food any battlefield ever had.”

“Don't you have a machine that puts food into the mouth and pushes it down?”

“Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.”

“I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.”

“He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.”

“The problem is when that fun stuff becomes the habit. And I think that's what's happened in our culture. Fast food has become the everyday meal.”

“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.”

“I love HGTV. I love the Food Network.”

“Research has shown that even small amounts of processed food alter the chemical balance in our brain and cause negative mood swings along with noticeable dips ill energy.”

“I like food, like any other guy, but it is not the main thing in my life. I can do without it.”

“I try to eat in a way that makes me feel good. If that means a little bite of chocolate I do that, but I try not to use food as a reward for myself.”

“But it's really hard to eat good when you're traveling because you see fast food and you want to go to this restaurant and that restaurant.”