Food Quotes
“I wouldn't say that processed food, ready meals and even takeaways aren't relevant to modern life, it's just that over the past 40 years there are three generations of people who have come out of school and gone through their home life without ever being shown how to cook properly.”
“Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.”
-- Mark Twain
“Cookbooks have all become baroque and very predictable. I'm looking for something different. A lot of chefs' cookbooks are food as it's done in the restaurants, but they are dumbed down, and I hate it when they dumb them down.”
-- Mario Batali
“I was raised by a lady that was crippled all her life but she did everything for me and she raised me. She washed our clothes, cooked our food, she did everything for us. I don't think I ever heard her complain a day in her life. She taught me responsibility towards my brother and sisters and the community.”
-- Ernest Gaines
“Older people shouldn't eat health food, they need all the preservatives they can get.”
-- Robert Orben