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.

I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

There is no such thing as Something for nothing.

Luck marches with those who give their very best.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

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.

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me when someone denies themselves the pleasure of a bloody hunk of steak or a pungent French cheese because of some outdated nonsense about what’s appropriate or attractive.

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.

Think 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.

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

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.

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

If a man does his best, what else is there?

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.

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

The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.

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?‘

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.

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

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.

It’s a rule to give all, and it can make the difference if you work more. If you don’t have to give all, and you still win, what’s this?

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.

Most of one’s life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

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.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

I’ve been my mom’s kitchen helper since I was a little kid.

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

The radiation left over from the Big Bang is the same as that in your microwave oven but very much less powerful. It would heat your pizza only to minus 271.3*C – not much good for defrosting the pizza, let alone cooking it.

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

I 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.

Food 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.

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.

I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.

To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.

Truth cannot be brought down; rather, the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountaintop to the valley. If you would attain to the mountaintop, you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices.

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

What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.

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

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

It is no use saying, ‚We are doing our best.‘ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

I was born in London in England in 1934. I went through, as a child, the horrors of World War II, through a time when food was rationed and we learned to be very careful, and we never had more to eat than what we needed to eat. There was no waste. Everything was used.

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.

Every chef I know, their cholesterol is through the roof. And mine’s not so great.

I won’t eat anything green.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.

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.

The 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.

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

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.

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

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

I’m a fry lover.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.