“Italy will always have the best food.”

“When I eat with my friends, it is a moment of real pleasure, when I really enjoy my life.”

“It's better to get the nutrients for healthy skin from food, not supplements. Salmon, walnuts, blueberries, spinach... lots of my favorite foods happen to be amazing for skin too.”

“Let's keep the chemists over here and the food over here, that's my feeling. What do I know? But that is a big aspect of fast food is their ability to artificially taint the colors and the smells and stuff to stimulate appetite.”

“The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small.”

“Maybe we've been brainwashed by 130 years of Yankee history, but Southern identity now has more to do with food, accents, manners, music than the Confederate past. It's something that's open to both races, a variety of ethnic groups and people who move here.”

“The secret of food lies in memory - of thinking and then knowing what the taste of cinnamon or steak is.”

“I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent.”

“Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.”

“One of the glories of New York is its ethnic food, and only McDonald's and Burger King equalize us all.”

“Fast food is hugely important in the life of a comedy writer. All we do is order in, and what we're going to eat is hotly debated.”

“Not like Chinese food, where you eat it and then you feel hungry an hour later.”

“I don't want to spend my life not having good food going into my pie hole. That hole was made for pies.”

“Short cycle business are being impacted by credit, and are being impacted by gasoline prices, food, distribution businesses, chemical business.”

“In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.”

“And on a Canadian set, everybody is equal. You get paid the same. You live together in barracks. You have a communal kitchen. You buy and cook your own food.”

“When I came to the Food Network, I didn't want to do a cooking show. I told Kathleen Finch for nine months I didn't want to do a cooking show, I wanted to do a home-and-garden show.”

“I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.”

“It's coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It's not just climate change it's sheer space, places to grow food for this enormous horde. Either we limit our population growth or the natural world will do it for us, and the natural world is doing it for us right now.”

“I love food, I love eating.”

“I love 'Top Chef.' I think it rewrote the book on how food shows are presented on TV.”