I would say there are some foods that I strongly recommend that you do not eat. No. 1 on that list, I believe, is doughnuts. Comfort food. Zero value. Don’t eat them.

Find what’s hot, find what’s just opened and then look for the worst review of the week. There is so much to learn from watching a restaurant getting absolutely panned and having a bad experience. Go and see it for yourself.

Understand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it – not just the sirloin but also all those wonderful tough little bits.

The best comfort food will always be greens, cornbread, and fried chicken.

Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me. The perfect meal, or the best meals, occur in a context that frequently has very little to do with the food itself.

Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.

French fries kill more people than guns and sharks, yet nobody’s afraid of French fries.

Of course, animals have to be killed for food or to prevent their doing injury to others or to property. But such killing is too often carried out without regard to the pain inflicted.

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

Nobody in Singapore drinks Singapore Slings. It’s one of the first things you find out there. What you do in Singapore is eat. It’s a really food-crazy culture, where all of this great food is available in a kind of hawker-stand environment.

Some formulas are too complex and I don’t want anything to do with them.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

I eat steak primarily. That’s pretty much what my diet consists of. Sometimes I supplement that with other steaks.

Oh yes, there’s lots of great food in America. But the fast food is about as destructive and evil as it gets. It celebrates a mentality of sloth, convenience, and a cheerful embrace of food we know is hurting us.

I love eating chocolate cake and ice cream after a show. I almost justify it in my mind as, ‚You were a good boy onstage and you did your show, so now you can have some cake and ice cream.‘

After a hard day of basic training, you could eat a rattlesnake.

My sisters like cooking at my place. It has a bit more room, and the food tastes a little bit better. A big pot of spaghetti and sauce, some warm French bread – works all the time. I think I’ve been eating pasta for 26 years.

Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.

My dinners at home are startlingly simple. Every night, I stop at the market near my hotel and pick up a steak, lamb chops or some liver, which I broil in the electric oven in my room. I usually eat four or five raw carrots with my meat, and that is all. I must be part rabbit; I never get bored with raw carrots.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

People are generally proud of their food. A willingness to eat and drink with people without fear and prejudice… they open up to you in ways that somebody visiting who is driven by a story may not get.

It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?

Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.

I try to work out my mind more these days. I try to eat right. I don’t drink, I don’t smoke, and I take the skin off chicken. But I’m not on no special diet. I like my steak and potatoes, ice cream, doughnuts.

I was always a junk food person, still am.

The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small.

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.

Hong Kong is a wonderful, mixed-up town where you’ve got great food and adventure. First and foremost, it’s a great place to experience China in a relatively accessible way.

Tokyo would probably be the foreign city if I had to eat one city’s food for the rest of my life, every day. It would have to be Tokyo, and I think the majority of chefs you ask that question would answer the same way.

Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.

I’m not a sandwich store that only sells turkey sandwiches. I sell a lot of different things.

If I’m in the ‚hood, I like Chef Creole’s Haitian rice and stewed chicken.

Those places I don’t understand, just doing bad food. It takes some doing. Making good pasta is so much easier than making bad stuff. It actually takes quite an effort to make poor linguine pomodora.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

The boys know they’re from Southeast Asia, and they have their food and their music and their friends, and they have a pride particular to them.

Wherever I go, as long as I get a hot vegetable dish, I am okay. If I am in Gujarat, I have Gujarati food. If it’s Shillong, it’s northeastern.

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive.

Regardless of what our national credit rating is, people will always want a roof over their heads, food on their tables, fuel for their cars, and clothes on their backs.

Sometimes, it’s just easier to say yes to that extra snack or dessert, because frankly, it is exhausting to keep saying no. It’s exhausting to plead with our kids to eat just one more bite of vegetables.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

What nicer thing can you do for somebody than make them breakfast?

If you like good ol‘ fashion Southern soul food then, yes, I am a good cook! My specialty is chicken dumplings and poke salad.

My father opened a restaurant. It’s so amazing… it’s so freaking delicious, but I’m telling you I gain five pounds every time I go in there.

I won’t eat anything green.

I, personally, think there is a really danger of taking food too seriously. Food should be part of the bigger picture.

I don’t have much patience for people who are self-conscious about the act of eating, and it irritates me when someone denies themselves the pleasure of a bloody hunk of steak or a pungent French cheese because of some outdated nonsense about what’s appropriate or attractive.

It’s a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced than here on earth. It’s an interesting place to be. I recommend it.

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.

The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.

So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.

I can’t say this enough – the food that you put into your bodies can actually help you get better grades. And it can also affect your performance in sports and other activities too. You see, when you give your body the best possible fuel, you have more energy, you’re stronger, you think more quickly.

It was the Congress that imposed ‚Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,‘ it was certainly my position, my recommendation to get us out of an even worse outcome that could have occurred.

We have food all around us all the time, and if we haven’t eaten for three hours, we think we’re starving. You’re not starving – human beings can go for 30 days without food.

I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

I’m evangelical on the subject of some chefs and writers.

Going to Southeast Asia for the first time and tasting that spectrum of flavors – that certainly changed my whole palate, the kind of foods I crave. A lot of the dishes I used to love became boring to me.

Barbecue may not be the road to world peace, but it’s a start.