I love the masochistic aspect of eating seething, real Sichuan food in Sichuan Province.
Anthony BourdainI 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.
Harry S. TrumanThere are GMO skeptics more in Europe maybe than in other places, but not exclusively.
Bill GatesFacts are to the mind what food is to the body.
Edmund BurkeMy weaknesses have always been food and men – in that order.
Dolly PartonTokyo 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.
Anthony BourdainI 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.
Mr. TI 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.
Michelle ObamaI love a Hebrew National hot dog with an ice-cold Corona – no lime. If the phone rings, I won’t answer until I’m done.
Maya AngelouThe ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.
VoltaireOf 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.
Robert Baden-PowellIf more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
J. R. R. TolkienFind 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.
Gordon RamsayHunger is the best pickle.
Benjamin FranklinLet’s face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me.
Audrey HepburnWhat nicer thing can you do for somebody than make them breakfast?
Anthony BourdainBut, you know, it’s still a drag to get your picture taken when you’re eating a sandwich. It’s a downer.
Keanu ReevesYou’d have a hard time finding anything better than Barcelona for food, as far as being a hub. Given a choice between Barcelona and San Sebastian to die in, I’d probably want to die in San Sebastian.
Anthony BourdainI like chicken a lot because chicken is generous – that is to say, it’s obedient. It will do whatever you tell it to do.
Maya AngelouI hated the Naked Chef. Fine, yes, he did good things for school food or whatever, but, you know, I don’t want my chefs to be cute and adorable.
Anthony BourdainIt is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?
Fyodor DostoevskyI’m very type-A, and many things in my life are about control and domination, but eating should be a submissive experience, where you let down your guard and enjoy the ride.
Anthony BourdainIt took me years to eat a lot of shellfish. I was probably 20 years old before I had even seen a shrimp cocktail. I like oysters, but fried.
Dolly PartonThink of our physical sustenance. It is truly heaven-sent. The necessities of air, food, and water all come to us as gifts from a loving Heavenly Father.
Russell M. NelsonHonestly, I just go to restaurants to eat so I won’t die. If there was a pill I could take in January and then I wouldn’t have to eat again for the rest of the year, I would take it. Of course, I wouldn’t want to sacrifice my chocolate cake and ice cream.
Steven WrightI’m certainly well taken care of in terms of food and clothes.
Bill GatesSo 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.
John SteinbeckI’ll bring my grits when I travel, because I get so hungry on the road.
Dolly PartonFood is everything we are. It’s an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It’s inseparable from those from the get-go.
Anthony BourdainAfter a hard day of basic training, you could eat a rattlesnake.
Elvis PresleyIn general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
Benjamin FranklinI’m not a sandwich store that only sells turkey sandwiches. I sell a lot of different things.
Lady GagaSteak and Shake in Indianapolis is definitely the first stop when we hit that city.
Stephen CurryRelationships based on obligation lack dignity.
Wayne DyerFame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
Emily DickinsonIt’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.
Neil ArmstrongI love Velveeta cheese.
Dolly PartonTo eat is to appropriate by destruction.
Jean-Paul SartreRegardless 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.
Robert KiyosakiWhy does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.
Woody AllenMeals 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.
Anthony BourdainWe never repent of having eaten too little.
Thomas JeffersonI’ve never eaten a strawberry in my life. I have no desire to do that.
Tom BradyI hid myself in food.
Gordon RamsayThe equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing – that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world – is what I wish for all.
Fidel CastroRemember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.
John C. MaxwellI was always a junk food person, still am.
Dolly PartonContext and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one’s life.
Anthony BourdainBrevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.
Marcus Tullius CiceroI was mischievous. I wasn’t bad. I stole food so we could eat. My mother didn’t know. I used to tell her some man gave me $10 to sweep out the yard. I was like Robin Hood. I took from the rich and gave to the poor. Me.
Mr. TEating words has never given me indigestion.
Winston ChurchillEating 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.
Maya AngelouThere is no sincerer love than the love of food.
George Bernard ShawAnd what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.
PlatoI 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.
Anthony BourdainIf I’m in Rome for only 48 hours, I would consider it a sin against God to not eat cacio e pepe, the most uniquely Roman of pastas, in some crummy little joint where Romans eat. I’d much rather do that than go to the Vatican. That’s Rome to me.
Anthony BourdainA house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
Benjamin FranklinYou don’t come into cooking to get rich.
Gordon RamsayMy 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.
Marilyn MonroeHong 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.
Anthony Bourdain