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" I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a black family it says they're looting, if you see a white family it says they're looking for food. "

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" Well, it's very easy for me to gain weight, but even though I tried not eating for a week when I was really young, I couldn't do it any longer because I liked my food too much. "

Amanda Seyfried

" I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh. "

" There's tons of junk food for your mind on the Internet. You can sit there for three or 10 or 20 hours a day getting in online arguments with other people who also choose to waste their time. "

" In Buddhist culture, offering food to the monk symbolizes the action of goodness, and if you have no opportunity to support the practice of spirituality, then you are somehow left in the realm of darkness. "

" 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

" Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability to ensure his food supply. "

" It all comes back to the basics. Serve customers the best-tasting food at a good value in a clean, comfortable restaurant, and they'll keep coming back. "

" Some of the food in Liquor is food I've really eaten filtered through a veil of fiction. "

" My doorman is more important to me than any head of any company. He keeps us safe. "

" Our deep respect for the land and its harvest is the legacy of generations of farmers who put food on our tables, preserved our landscape, and inspired us with a powerful work ethic. "

James H. Douglas, Jr.

" Humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in any comparable period of time in human history, largely to meet rapidly growing demands for food, fresh water, timber, fiber and fuel. This has resulted in a substantial and largely irreversible loss in the diversity of life on Earth. "

" I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn. "

" The time has come to recognize that food, how we produce it, process it, package it, sell it, cook it and eat it, is as important as any other issue. "

" We have to bring children into a new relationship to food that connects them to culture and agriculture. "

" It was very liberating, living in a foreign country, a place where everything was new and strange - the food, the customs, the climate, everything. "

Deborah Moggach

" I genuinely enjoy the process of making colourful, delicious food. But I do allow myself an occasional piece of chocolate - today I had a pastry. If I fancy something, I'll have it. "

Victoria Pendleton

" Animals that we eat are raised for food in the most economical way possible, and the serious food producers do it in the most humane way possible. I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages. "

" We're not going to cure terrorism and spread peace and goodwill in the Middle East by killing innocent people, or I'm not even saying our bullets and bombs are killing them. The occupation that they don't have food. They don't have clean water. They don't have electricity. They don't have medicine. They don't have doctors. "

" The animal world seizes its food in masses little and big, and often gorges itself with it, but the vegetable, through the agency of the solvent power of water, absorbs its nourishment molecule by molecule. "

" Ice cream is the perfect buffer, because you can do things in a somewhat lighthearted way. Plus, people have an emotional response to ice cream; it's more than just food. So I think when you combine caring, and eating wonderful food, it's a very powerful combination. "

Jerry Greenfield

" There is no one on earth who knew you from the day you were born; who knew why you cried, or when you'd had enough food; who knew exactly what to say when you were hurting; and who encouraged you to grow a good heart. When that layer goes, whatever is left of your childhood goes with her. "

Adriana Trigiani

" I love hotel rooms, so I take pictures of the room and the way out and the lobby, the food and drink. "

Geoffrey Zakarian

" Peruvian food is so simple yet amazingly flavored with their traditional spices. "

" Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness. "

" I am your fairy tale. Your dream. Your wishes and desires, and I am your thirst and your hunger and your food and your drink. "

" I like a well-roasted rotisserie chicken and eggs cooked various ways, like sunny-side up or scrambled. It's comfort food for me. "

" Culture and tradition have to change little by little. So 'new' means a little twist, a marriage of Japanese technique with French ingredients. My technique. Indian food, Korean food; I put Italian mozzarella cheese with sashimi. I don't think 'new new new.' I'm not a genius. A little twist. "

Masaharu Morimoto

" Food isn't like anything else. It's something precious. It's not a commodity. "

" Get people back into the kitchen and combat the trend toward processed food and fast food. "

" President Obama has almost doubled our national debt to more than $19 trillion, and growing. And yet, what do we have to show for it? Our roads and bridges are falling apart, our airports are in Third World condition, and forty-three million Americans are on food stamps. "