Another suggestion is to cook a meal, maybe not every night, but a couple more times a week than you usually do. That way you have leftovers, and you take your lunch to work.

When I cook for my family on Christmas, I make feijoada, a South American dish of roasted and smoked meats like ham, pork, beef, lamb, and bacon – all served with black beans and rice. It’s festive but different.

Just try not to ingest a lot of fats, and just try to eat carefully.

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

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

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 think every chef, not just in America, but across the world, has a double-edged sword – two jackets, one that’s driven, a self-confessed perfectionist, thoroughbred, hate incompetence and switch off the stove, take off the jacket and become a family man.

I never eat salad. I make sure I don’t put a lot of junk into my system, but I hate vegetables!

Back in Oakland, we have a lot of food in the locker room, but on the road, it’s mostly just fruit. So we have to prepare differently. But really, once you get to the gym, everything on the road is pretty much the same.

The mother of a family should look upon her housekeeping and the planning of meals as a scientific occupation.

I eat only vegetables and fruit, and to me it’s the most aspirational diet because it’s so easy. It’s quite simple, the cooking I do.

If you’re a person struggling to eat and stay healthy, you might have heard about Michael Jordan or Muhammad Ali, but you’ll never have heard of Bill Gates.

I’m a decent cook; I’m a decent chef. None of my friends would ever have hired me at any point in my career. Period.

I wasn’t that great a chef, and I don’t think I’m that great a writer.

I would love to encourage all my teammates to eat the best way they possibly can. High school athletes. Now, that’s not the way our food system in America is set up. It’s very different. They have a food pyramid, and I disagree with that. I disagree with a lot of things that people tell you to do.

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.

A bachelor’s life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.

I eat fish, three times a week meat, and if not yogurt, something like this and it rarely continues.

I would like to see people more aware of where their food comes from. I would like to see small farmers empowered. I feed my daughter almost exclusively organic food.

Don’t just eat McDonald’s, get something a bit better. Eat a salad. That’s what fashion is. It’s something that is a bit better.

I don’t snack. I don’t generally eat sweets or drink soda. I never eat between meals or even before big ones.

I’m just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.

If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that’s exactly what I did.

My kids are normal. If they could eat burgers and fries and ice cream every day, they would. And so would I. But that doesn’t sustain us.

Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I’m taking with me when I go.

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish – too much handling will spoil it.

I love Velveeta cheese.

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

I’m just wanting to make the proper breakfast and keep the house. That’s my passion. At the request of my kids, I’m taking cooking classes. As I go to sleep at night, I think, ‚Did I do a great job as a mom, or was that an average day?‘

I like to talk about my obsession with french fries because I don’t want people to think that ‚Let’s Move‘ is about complete, utter deprivation. It’s about moderation and real-life changes and ideas that really work for families.

I think Weetabix and full-fat milk is what it is all about.

No, and I never, ever eat in between the meals. I control it well enough and with no pills, and I sleep seven hours a night. I go to bed. I fall asleep, and I wake up seven hours later, and this is the most important.

When you cook under pressure you trade perfection.

There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.

And let’s be clear: It’s not enough just to limit ads for foods that aren’t healthy. It’s also going to be critical to increase marketing for foods that are healthy.

Cooking today is a young man’s game, I don’t give a bollocks what anyone says.

You can call me the bad boy chef all you want. I’m not going to freak out about it. I’m not that bad. I’m certainly not a boy, and it’s been a while since I’ve been a chef.

Writing’s just as natural to me as getting up and cooking breakfast.

Together, we can help make sure that every family that walks into a restaurant can make an easy, healthy choice.

I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.

I’m not trying to take New York by storm. I just want to sneak in there, keep my head down, batten down the hatches and cook.

I have loved to cook since I was a child in my mother’s kitchen. If I don’t have time to cook, I’ll just read a cookbook.

Cooking is about passion, so it may look slightly temperamental in a way that it’s too assertive to the naked eye.

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.

Eating is so intimate. It’s very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you’re inviting a person into your life.

You don’t come into cooking to get rich.

My mother cooked like a scientist. She had a giant Chinese-style cleaver that she chopped with, and a cupboard full of spices.

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

Who bothers to cook TV dinners? I suck them frozen.

The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.

We all need to start making some changes to how our families eat. Now, everyone loves a good Sunday dinner. Me included. And there’s nothing wrong with that. The problem is when we eat Sunday dinner Monday through Saturday.

‚Kitchen Confidential‘ wasn’t a cautionary or an expose. I wrote it as an entertainment for New York tri-state area line cooks and restaurant lifers, basically; I had no expectation that it would move as far west as Philadelphia.

We can make a commitment to promote vegetables and fruits and whole grains on every part of every menu. We can make portion sizes smaller and emphasize quality over quantity. And we can help create a culture – imagine this – where our kids ask for healthy options instead of resisting them.

When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink – boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts.

You know, from age 17 on, my paycheck was coming from cooking and working in kitchens.

Anyone who’s a chef, who loves food, ultimately knows that all that matters is: ‚Is it good? Does it give pleasure?‘

I like chicken a lot because chicken is generous – that is to say, it’s obedient. It will do whatever you tell it to do.

When you’re a chef, you graze. You never get a chance to sit down and eat. They don’t actually sit down and eat before you cook. So when I finish work, the first thing I’ll do, and especially when I’m in New York, I’ll go for a run. And I’ll run 10 or 15k on my – and I run to gain my appetite.

I do yoga, I do Bikram and I run, and I eat really healthy.

When I was 25 and I was told to eat 6 pieces of potato every day, someday it would be 8, someday it would be 10. Not that it’s going to make a big difference. But now when I am told by my nutritionist that you get to eat 6 pieces a day, it’s 6. Done!