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" Give your kids a bloody knife and fork and let me put some fresh food in front of them they can eat. "

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John Galsworthy

" For me, food is all about balance. If you eat plenty of fruits, vegetables, and an appropriate amount of poultry, fish, and red meat that are sourced from good places, you're doing well. It's important to make sure that the meat you're consuming is hormone-free. "

" An adult human can last 40 days without food, a week without any sleep, three days without water, but only five minutes without air. Yet nothing is more taken for granted than the air we breathe. However, not just any air will do - it must be exquisitely designed to meet our needs. Too little oxygen in the atmosphere will kill us, as will too much. "

" I'd say, in some ways, I'm very Bengali. I have a love of the arts - dance, music, visual arts - which I think is a very Bengali trait. I also love food, which I know is very Bengali! "

" Everything that UCLA stands for, it's top of the food chain. So you either look at those things as burdens or you look at them as blessings. From day one, I've told my staff we're going to look at it as a blessing and do everything we can to build champions. "

" Right after I graduated high school, I joined a sushi restaurant to learn how to make Japanese food. And then spent seven years. Then that time - that's enough. Then sushi restaurant - butchering fish and they make your body smell like fishy. "

Masaharu Morimoto

" I'm not a chef. But I'm passionate about food - the tradition of it, cooking it, and sharing it. "

" Civilization depends on our expanding ability to produce food efficiently, which has markedly accelerated thanks to science and technology. "

" According to my mother, there pretty much wasn't anything I wouldn't eat as a child. Not just try, but eat. I was even inclined to dig into stuff about which she expressed open disgust - lobster and other shellfish, and cheap Chinese food with pepper so hot it made your gums feel like a medieval dentist had been at them. "

" It was interesting to think that the very first liquid ever poured on the Moon, and the first food eaten there, were communion elements. "

" Baking cookies is comforting, and cookies are the sweetest little bit of comfort food. They are very bite-sized and personal. "

" I like a restaurant called Bruci, and there's some really nice people who work there and good food. They change their menu a lot, so maybe that's what keeps me coming back. I never know what I'm going to get. "

" Even if you don't think you can cook well, you can cook better than the food industry. "

" My perfect day is constantly changing. Right now, it would be to lie around in a hammock reading with a portable phone and a table of food next to it. I would spend all day there. And that's all that I can possibly come up with on the spur of the moment. "

" I always preferred my father's pasta the next day, when he'd put it in a hot oven with heaps of extra cheese. It would emerge slightly burned and very crisp on top. "

Yotam Ottolenghi

" I'm reading a lot of different books, but I always think I have to switch it up a little bit. It's like food - everything in moderation, same with my books, same with my reading. You read books that are good for you and you learn a lot of stuff, then you read 'Fifty Shades of Grey,' which is like candy. "

" I think food is getting lighter and healthier because people eat out so often. It's about quality ingredients because that is the root of good food. "

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

" The public health of five million children should not be left to luck or chance. "

" A nanny is a woman who lives in an apartment, but the apartment is not her own. She raises children, teaches them how to walk, how to speak; she gives them food - but these children are not her children. So she is in a very ambiguous place. "

" Cooking is all about people. Food is maybe the only universal thing that really has the power to bring everyone together. No matter what culture, everywhere around the world, people get together to eat. "

" My philosophy from day one is that I can sleep better at night if I can improve an individual's knowledge about food and wine, and do it on a daily basis. "

" I do the same exercises I did 50 years ago and they still work. I eat the same food I ate 50 years ago and it still works. "

Arnold Schwarzenegger

" Nothing that has value, real value, has no cost. Not freedom, not food, not shelter, not healthcare. "

" Today, the news is scandals; that is news, but the many children who don't have food - that's not news. This is grave. We can't rest easy while things are this way. "

" The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food. "

" I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting. "

" A workday lunch that lasts as long as a transcontinental flight is an impossibility for all but the most pliant and footloose of food tourists. To get in the game, you need a thick wallet, an adventurous palate, and a whole lot of time. "

" I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still. "

" The food we eat is our identity. The youth of the nation must save our food culture and traditions. If not, it will affect future generations. "

Vijay Sethupathi

" From food trucks to hot dog stands to county fair favorites, 'street food' has enjoyed a rich and storied history in American cuisine. However, street food has been around for thousands of years. In fact, street food is believed to have originated as far back as Ancient Rome. "