Food Quotes

“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 went from 118 pounds to 135 pounds in a few months. But, I still didn't know anything about food.”

-- Warren Cuccurullo

“President Obama is the most successful food stamp president in American history. I would like to be the most successful paycheck president in American history.”

-- Newt Gingrich

“I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead.”

-- Woody Allen