3,214 Quotes About Food

  • Author Alice Waters
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    Organize yourself so you aren't struggling to shop at the last minute. When you have real food, it's very easy to cook.

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  • Author Alice Waters
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    I just hope Americans come to understand that food isn't something to be manipulated by our teeth and shoved down our gullet, that it's our spiritual and physical nourishment and important to our well-being as a nation.

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  • Author Alice Waters
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    I don't think it ever works to tell people what they can't eat. They can do it for so long, and then they fall off. You have to bring them into a new relationship with food.

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  • Author Bee Wilson
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    I'd rather have a good food - lots and lots of different varieties of good foods - than search for something perfect.

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  • Author Bee Wilson
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    When someone watches us eating, we feel exposed. We might also harbor a suspicion that the person staring wants to steal food from our plate. The taboo, in any case, is long-standing.

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  • Author Charles Dudley Warner
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    Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.

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