Food Quotes
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When I say, 'Everybody to the table and eat,' I mean it. That is the glue, the center that holds the family, that gives security. Good food brings everybody to the table.
Lidia Bastianich
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I'm just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.
Maya Angelou
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If I couldn't use food or love to define contentment, I would use reading.
Mary Roach
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I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more difficult is to identify with someone you don't see, who's very far away, who's a different color, who eats a different kind of food. When you begin to do that then literature is really performing its wonders.
Chinua Achebe
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People will travel anywhere for good food - it's crazy.
Rene Redzepi
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Olympia was a town crawling with music. I was new to the whole punk scene. The culture shock continued; Olympia had bagels! We didn't have bagels in Arkansas. You could order vegetarian food all over town! It was so crazy to me - a place with so many vegetarians, the restaurants made special dishes for them?
Mary Beth Patterson
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It was very important thousands of years ago to categorize things. I can eat that plant, I can't eat that plant. Or this tribe, not that tribe. We don't have to do that anymore - we have processed food now!
Keegan-Michael Key
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My secret indulgent food is dessert. I have an incredible sweet tooth - chocolate pudding with vanilla ice-cream or trifle and pavlova. I do love dessert.
Deborra-Lee Furness
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The more we learn of the true nature of non-human animals, especially those with complex brains and corresponding complex social behavior, the more ethical concerns are raised regarding their use in the service of man - whether this be in entertainment, as 'pets,' for food, in research laboratories, or any of the other uses to which we subject them.
Jane Goodall
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I write with humour about sadness, to introduce an element of sweet to the sour, a bit like Turkish food.
Elif Safak
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A third of our food comes from pollinating plants.
Louie Schwartzberg
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I feel that good food should be a right and not a privilege, and it needs to be without pesticides and herbicides. And everybody deserves this food. And that's not elitist.
Alice Waters
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The best thing about liver is how virtuous it makes you feel after you've eaten some.
Bruce Jay Friedman
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Presently, we were aware of an odour gradually coming towards us, something musky, fiery, savoury, mysterious, - a hot drowsy smell, that lulls the senses, and yet enflames them, - the truffles were coming.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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I love food shows: Anthony Bourdain, Iron Chef, Chopped, you name it.
Donnie Wahlberg
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Let those who are famished come that they may lay aside perpetual hunger and be filled with heavenly food.
Lactantius
