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

Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer’s you are an old fart. That’s how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone.

It’s crazy how fast you get out of shape if you miss a couple days of action.

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

If a woman can, by careful selection of a father and nourishment of herself, produce a citizen with efficient senses, sound organs and a good digestion, she should clearly be secured a sufficient reward for that natural service to make her willing to undertake and repeat it.

Joe Frazier got hit more than me – and he doesn’t have Parkinson’s.

It’s simple, if it jiggles, it’s fat.

I think sometimes the best training is to rest.

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.

Why can’t I just eat my waffle?

Life would pall if it were all sugar; salt is bitter if taken by itself; but when tasted as part of the dish, it savours the meat. Difficulties are the salt of life.

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man’s own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.

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

No one ever told me I should eat egg whites or drink a gallon of water each day.

You just feel a little odd when you don’t get your kind of food. Fortunately, there are Indian restaurants all over the world.

All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization.

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

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

An army marches on its stomach.

Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body.

My weaknesses have always been food and men – in that order.

The more cats you have, the longer you live. If you have a hundred cats, you’ll live 10 times longer than if you have 10. Someday this will be discovered, and people will have a thousand cats and live forever. It’s truly ridiculous.

I eat next to nothing.

It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

Never order food in excess of your body weight.

Don’t get old, if you can avoid it.

A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

I’m proud to be an actor. See, as an actor, you live longer. Football players, the brain and all that stuff, ooh-eee, that’s not good.

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.

If you want to deal with an epidemic – crime or health – the smartest and most effective and cheapest way to deal with it is prevention first.

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.

Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long.

Attention to health is life’s greatest hindrance.

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

There is no doubt that some plant food, such as oatmeal, is more economical than meat, and superior to it in regard to both mechanical and mental performance. Such food, moreover, taxes our digestive organs decidedly less, and, in making us more contented and sociable, produces an amount of good difficult to estimate.

He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

When I’m home, I spend Sunday with my husband. If we’re not cooking, we travel around in our camper, stop at fast-food restaurants, and picnic. We love that stuff that will harden your arteries in a hurry.

Some people reckoned that I looked healthier when I was bigger but I had terrible skin and no energy.

I’m just glad to be feeling better. I really thought I’d be seeing Elvis soon.

There is one thing I have never taught my body how to do and that is to figure out at 6 A.M. what it wants to eat at 6 P.M.

Kitchens are hard environments and they form incredibly strong characters.

There are GMO skeptics more in Europe maybe than in other places, but not exclusively.

I cook, I create, I’m incredibly excited by what I do, I’ve still got a lot to achieve.

Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat – no matter who killed the meat for him.

Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.

I have little bones.

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.

You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

Sometimes, women in families put themselves last until it manifests itself in their own health.

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.

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases.