I love trying out different cuisines. In Delhi, I love Megu at the Leela, and TK’s at the Hyatt. I also enjoy Khan Chacha’s rolls. In Mumbai, it’s Royal China and Shiro. And in Bangalore, I like the food at Bricklane.
Virat KohliFacts are to the mind what food is to the body.
Edmund BurkeI try to very hard to avoid a situation where I would be eating cat or dog; I’ve managed to gracefully avoid that. It’s hypocritical of me and an arbitrary line, but one that I have managed to avoid crossing.
Anthony BourdainThe 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.
John RuskinSo long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.
Franz KafkaWhen I’m back in New York – and this is a terrible thing to complain about – I eat a lot more really, really good food than perhaps I’d like to. So many of my friends are really good chefs. It’s kind of like being in the Mafia.
Anthony BourdainWe 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.
Jocko WillinkFood 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 BourdainCauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
Mark TwainI 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 Kobe craze really annoyed me. Most of the practitioners had no real understanding of the product and were abusing it and exploiting it in terrible and ridiculous ways. Kobe beef should not be used in a hamburger. It’s completely pointless.
Anthony BourdainI have much more support than most women around this world, and I have the financial means to have a home and help with care and food.
Angelina JolieEating 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 AngelouI’m not looking to freak people out – eating rodents or bugs. I don’t do that anymore.
Anthony BourdainMy 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 MonroeI love the masochistic aspect of eating seething, real Sichuan food in Sichuan Province.
Anthony BourdainAfter a hard day of basic training, you could eat a rattlesnake.
Elvis PresleySometimes, 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.
Michelle ObamaOh 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.
Anthony BourdainThere are GMO skeptics more in Europe maybe than in other places, but not exclusively.
Bill GatesTokyo 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 BourdainIf I’m in the ‚hood, I like Chef Creole’s Haitian rice and stewed chicken.
DJ KhaledI would never win an award for not loving pizza.
Dwayne JohnsonWherever 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.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamI’m certainly well taken care of in terms of food and clothes.
Bill GatesWe never repent of having eaten too little.
Thomas JeffersonHonestly, 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 not a sandwich store that only sells turkey sandwiches. I sell a lot of different things.
Lady GagaI, personally, think there is a really danger of taking food too seriously. Food should be part of the bigger picture.
Anthony BourdainGoing 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.
Anthony Bourdain‚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.
Anthony BourdainSo 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 SteinbeckFame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
Emily DickinsonThink 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. NelsonTo eat is to appropriate by destruction.
Jean-Paul SartreI will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead.
Woody AllenRegardless 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 KiyosakiI eat steak primarily. That’s pretty much what my diet consists of. Sometimes I supplement that with other steaks.
Jocko WillinkMy 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.
Lady GagaMeals 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 BourdainBarbecue may not be the road to world peace, but it’s a start.
Anthony BourdainHunger is the best pickle.
Benjamin FranklinI 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 BourdainLet food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.
HippocratesI 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. TrumanYou don’t come into cooking to get rich.
Gordon RamsayContext and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one’s life.
Anthony BourdainUnderstand, 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.
Anthony BourdainSome people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.
Dwight D. EisenhowerIn general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.
Benjamin FranklinI myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
Queen Elizabeth IIThere is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.
H. L. MenckenNobody 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.
Anthony BourdainThose 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.
Anthony BourdainMy weaknesses have always been food and men – in that order.
Dolly PartonEating words has never given me indigestion.
Winston ChurchillBut, you know, it’s still a drag to get your picture taken when you’re eating a sandwich. It’s a downer.
Keanu ReevesAcorns were good until bread was found.
Francis BaconOnion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.
Erma BombeckI’m a fry lover.
Michelle Obama