Food Quotes
“A couple of months ago, I was down in Florida for the Food and Wine Festival. And this journalist grabbed me and said, 'How does it feel to be a TV guy? You're no longer in the restaurant business.' And I laughed. I asked him, 'How long do you think it takes me to do a season?' He said, 'Well, 200 days.' And I was like, '200 days? Try 20!'”
“I've always felt that sexuality is a really slippery thing. In this day and age, it tends to get categorized and labeled, and I think labels are for food. Canned food.”
-- Michael Stipe
“I wait for the next opportunity to have something to do with food. If I get rested, my mind just starts creating new dishes - click, click, click.”
-- Paul Prudhomme
“When I was younger I was fat. I was never conscious of it and was content with who I was because I was so loved. My mother never told me to lose weight and my father doted on me, but my agent told me. I tried, but I loved Indian food too much.”
-- Archie Panjabi
“Men do not have to cook their food they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.”
-- Edmund Leach
“One must know combinations, one must have a true knowledge of food to be in the moment.”
-- Charlie Trotter
“I grew up in Austria, and for me real comfort food is Wiener Schnitzel. Wiener Schnitzel and mashed potatoes because it reminds me of my youth... It reminds me when I grow up and it feels very comforting.”
-- Wolfgang Puck