Everyday Eating Quotes

For the Anglo-Saxons, meat was the main meal of the day, which revolved around 'before-meat' and 'after-meat.' But it has ended up as the metaphor for the most basic: 'meat and potatoes' is as far from sassy - from 'sauce' - as you can get.

My wife doesn't cook, so we eat out every night. It's not fine dining or anything - we're not fancy people.

I think what I do differently from a lot of TV chefs is that I break down barriers and make fine food more accessible to the regular person, who might be intimidated. I try hard, particularly with wine, to make it not intimidating. It's sort of a teaching job.

I think I'll be around as long as there is a market for simple, basic, non-intimidating food.

Food not only connects us at the idyllic dinner table setting with family and friends: it is also part of our mundane, daily transit to and from work.

Food is important to me, but I wouldn't say that I'm a gourmet. I don't like tricksy food.

What people eat is not well documented. Food writers prefer to focus on fashionable, expensive restaurants whose creative dishes reflect little of what most people are eating.

I'm simple in my approach and straightforward. I connect with the average person that is interested in food.

I go to Franny's in Brooklyn a lot. It's just a casual Italian place, but I could eat there every day.

I'm a terrible sort of non-fussy eater, really. I don't like posh food very much, and the more ingredients something's got in it, the less I tend to like it.