Food Quotes
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I've been in the service industry. I've bar-tended. I've waited tables, and I've worked at pizza places; I've made pizza. I've had a lot of jobs, and many of them were in the food service industry.
Jon Favreau
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The biggest thing you can do is understand that every time you're going to the grocery store, you're voting with your dollars. Support your farmers' market. Support local food. Really learn to cook.
Alice Waters
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Back in 1983, the United States government approved the release of the first genetically modified organism. In this case, it was a bacteria that prevents frost on food crops.
Jeremy Rifkin
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The desire for attention has become a primal need along the lines of food, water, and clothing.
Alexandra Petri
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Twenty-first-century food is going to be real food. Real food is food that is truly nourishing for the consumer, the community, and the planet.
Kimbal Musk
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Food is no longer sacred to us: in becoming too efficient we've changed its nature.
Mehmet Oz
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Know you food, know your farmers, and know your kitchen. Start building up your larder! We don't even use that term any more.
Joel Salatin
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I'm a big State Fair person, and my main goal is to eat as much food as possible, but I tend not to do the foods on a stick. But I like Big Fat Bacon.
Alison McGhee
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A fisherman does not bait his hook with food he likes. He uses food the fish likes. So with boys.
Baden Powell
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Eating among the French certainly affected me. After a few years here, I gave up most of my selective food habits.
Pamela Druckerman
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The most important things are actually the easiest to obtain: great friends, good food, and a decent bottle of wine.
Blake Mycoskie
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Chefs are at the end of a long chain of individuals who work hard to feed people. Farmers, beekeepers, bakers, scientists, fishermen, grocers, we are all part of that chain, all food people, all dedicated to feeding the world.
Jose Andres
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It's in the nature of Italians to live life with a positive tone and to celebrate the invitations that come along in life. Italian food is so conducive to all of that.
Lidia Bastianich
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One of my great personal triumphs is, because I stay vigilant about my health, I was never going to give my detractors the satisfaction of not feeling well, or allowing my health to falter while eating rich and indulgent food all over the world.
Adam Richman
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I supplement a lot. So I'll take a probiotic, and I mostly eat green food.
Jillian Michaels
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Animals' taste systems are specialized for the niche they occupy in the environment. That includes us. As hunters and foragers of the dry savannah, our earliest forebears evolved a taste for important but scarce nutrients: salt and high-energy fats and sugars. That, in a nutshell, explains the widespread popularity of junk food.
Mary Roach
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A lot of local food is very tasty. I'm very happy to eat it. I just don't think it's the same thing as saving the world.
Tyler Cowen
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If we do nothing, the ensuing climate catastrophe will wreck our economy - including wreaking havoc on our food production systems. All credible scientists agree on this point.
Van Jones
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When two kids are being completely berserk, and they're naked and throwing food around, sometimes I just let it go because I can see a future where they're going to be dressed, and they're going to be at school. So I kind of let stuff go sometimes.
Louis C. K.
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When training and matches are finished, we'll all go out and have food together; we're always in touch with each other.
Jamie Vardy
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It gives men courage and ambition and the nerve for anything. It has the colour of gold, is clear as a glass and shines after dark as if the sunshine were still in it.
O. Henry
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You should just feel comfortable with food and your own culinary culture, whatever your mother and grandmother know.
Lidia Bastianich
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My mother always cooked, every day, proper food. We didn't have fast food. It was probably pretty much meat and two veg, but as time went on and new things came into the culture, she embraced all of that. I grew up with mealtimes and sitting around the table with proper cooking and eating.
Lesley Manville
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There are probably close to a million people in the hospitality industry here in the United States, and there are probably only a few hundred opportunities in the food media industry.
Curtis Stone