People will travel anywhere for good food - it's crazy.
Eating is one of the most important aspects of living. I like indulging. I like to eat one food at a time, to savor each individual thing.
At least when it comes to food, there's no snobbery in Singapore.
When I ponder my mind I consistently find It is glued On food.
Good food is the basis of true happiness
The first glimpse I had of what Mario Batali's friends had described to me as the 'myth of Mario' was on a cold Saturday night in January 2002, when I invited him to a birthday dinner.
Food ... is the topmost taper on the golden candelabrum of existence.
Food is a subject of conversation more spiritually refreshing even than the weather, for the number of possible remarks about the weather is limited, whereas of food you can talk on and on and on.
Nashville is coming up to be an amazing foodie city.
There is no right way to go on an edible journey. You can never tell what is going to be great, so you have to try everything. If you become doctrinaire about sticking to lowbrow foods or epicurean delights, your just being an extremist, and it won't do you any good.
I'm living on things that excite me, be they pastry, or lobster, or love...
I came from the old world of gastronomy. Many years ago I walked into the kitchens of the Hotel St George and I feel very fortunate that I worked for chefs that were behind their stoves. I saw that world of gastronomy. I can sit here today and say that I saw the golden age of gastronomy. It's gone, it's gone. It's never going to have that anymore, once the accountants get involved the romance fades. That's the reality.
Food - there's no greater gift.
New York is the best food city in the world.
...appetite turns common food into the fare of kings.
As refined fare serves a hungry man as well as and no better than coarser food, the more pretentious artist will not dream of inviting the hungry man to his meal.
I don't think there was ever a dish that changed my life. I certainly remember a constant series of things that I had for the first time and thought, 'Where has this been all my life?' One was brie. I mean, oh my God! One was my first soft-shell crabs.
The parrot holds its food for prim consumption as daintily as any debutante, [with] a predilection for pot roast, hashed-brown potatoes, duck skin, butter, hoisin sauce, sesame seed oil, bananas and human thumb.
You might be a redneck if you consider pork and beans to be a gourmet food.
SAUCE, n. The one infallible sign of civilization and enlightenment. A people with no sauces has one thousand vices; a people with one sauce has only nine hundred and ninety-nine. For every sauce invented and accepted a vice is renounced and forgiven.
The greatest food city in the world is New York City, just in terms of depth and breadth, variety, size, infrastructure.
Do you like to eat things? -I love eating. I list it as a hobby.
As a chef I’m not your dietitian or your ethicist, I’m in the pleasure business.
If I'm a lush at anything, it's food and drink. I'm not materialistic in any way, but I value food.
People who love to eat are always the best people.
