Jeannette Walls Quotes

My main recollection is of the work I had to do in order to eat.

If kids can learn how to make a simple Bolognese sauce, they will never go hungry. It's pretty easy to cook pasta, but a good sauce is way more useful.

Most people are hungry, therefore they eat. I am hungry, therefore I cook. Since my senior year in college, when I moved into an apartment with a bunch of friends, I have cooked almost every day of my life.

I understand that in some families both parents have to work, so the kids are home alone eating more processed foods. But if the kids know how to make oatmeal or eggs in the morning or pasta or a lentil soup at night - we're giving them real survival tools.

The best way to get anybody's attention is dinner. I have good kitchen skills and good grocery shopping skills.

I'm a really good cook. I left home to start my career at 15 - so my choices were to either learn to cook or eat Ramen noodles for the rest of my life.

I'll starve to death before I'll cook for myself. I think I could survive a week without eating.

Even if we could produce enough food globally to feed everyone satisfactorily, the continued steady rise in the cost of inputs will mean increasing numbers will not be able to afford the food we produce. This is a key point that is often missed.

I think the most important thing we can teach our kids for their long-term health and happiness is how to cook.

People in professional kitchens may love what they do, but sometimes it's just something that puts food on the table.

I wake up in the morning thinking about food.

I've always loved to cook, and then my love of it just grew as I got older and started traveling and started entertaining.

When you're just focused on nutrition and hunger, that's a harder, harder lift in isolation.

When you grow up starving, you cannot point with pride to a book you've just spent six hours reading. Picking cotton, sewing flour bags into clothes - those were the skills my father grew up appreciating.

As a chef, a mom, and a member of Team No Kid Hungry, I believe that every child deserves three meals a day, every day.

Nothing has been handed to me my entire life. You have to go there and take it. My mom taught me that.

Every man must know how to cook; this is the first thing that we are taught back home.

I rely way too much on Seamless, and I really need to learn how to feed myself.

I grew up working hard to earn everything I had.

Ideology never put food on my table.

You can't expect anyone to hand something to you. And I'm OK with that.

I never leave the field. I block. I catch. I never leave the field. I don't have anybody do my job. I do it myself.

I do not live off canned soup.

Food is a big part of my life.

Food is a part of life. People are foodies and love to shop for food.