Food Quotes
“Somewhere between 50 to 60 percent of the food you eat has been touched by immigrant hands, and it is fair to say some of them are not here as they should be here. But if you didn't have these folks, you would be spending a lot more - three, four or five times more - for food, or we would have to import food and have all the food security risks.”
“When I'm writing, my neural pathways get blocked. I can't read. I can barely hold a conversation without forgetting words and names. I wish I could wear the same clothes and eat the same food each day.”
-- Kate Atkinson
“Food is not just what we put in our mouths to fill up it is culture and identity. Reason plays some role in our decisions about food, but it's rarely driving the car.”
-- Jonathan Safran Foer
“Everyone makes pesto in a food processor. But the texture is better with a mortar and pestle, and it's just as fast.”
-- Mario Batali
“I don't really believe in diets. I love food... If I deprive myself, I'm going to want it more. I snack on yogurt, raw cashews and cherry tomatoes.”
-- Nicole Scherzinger
“Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.”
-- Patricia Ireland
“My feeling is that labels are for canned food... I am what I am - and I know what I am.”
-- Michael Stipe
“Working at the Food Bank with my kids is an eye-opener. The face of hunger isn't the bum on the street drinking Sterno it's the working poor. They don't look any different, they don't behave any differently, they're not really any less educated. They are incredibly less privileged, and that's it.”
-- Mario Batali