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" Italian food really reflects the people. It reflects like a prism that fragments into regions. "

Lidia Bastianich

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" I cook a lot of Italian food. Bucatini Pomodoro is my best: it's a fat spaghetti with tomato, olive oil, and reminds me of getting married in Italy. "

" I like to take a day off and enjoy fast food for what it is. I have to say that in New York, I'm really partial about taco trucks. I mean, I really can't handle it. There is something about catching all those ingredients piled on top of each other: it puts me in a tizzy. I love it. I'm kind of a taco truck junkie. "

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

" Good food is good food. It doesn't have to come with pretense. "

" Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food. "

Robert M. Pirsig

" As a chef, I feel that it is my duty to make the most of what the earth gives us. "

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" You should just feel comfortable with food and your own culinary culture, whatever your mother and grandmother know. "

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" Since music is so important to me, I don't need to put in any extra effort to do this; it just flows for me. It's as simple as drinking water and having food, so definitely, music is one of the main purposes of my life. "

" For the first 50 years of your life the food industry is trying to make you fat. Then, the second 50 years, the pharmaceutical industry is treating you for everything. "

" What you're going to be eating in the next year is decided by chefs. If the consensus is that pot-bellies are in next season, that's what's on your plate. And I think that's a good thing, because we know, obviously, about food. "

Anthony Bourdain

" I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning. "

" Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs. "

Leonardo da Vinci

" To be honest, after you've crossed the line at the Olympic Games, it is bedlam for the next, about, five or six hours. Media, press conference, dope control - you might get some food if you're lucky. You might see family if you're lucky. "

Victoria Pendleton

" That's the beauty of risotto. You can make it any flavor you want. It's a great carrier. "

Lidia Bastianich

" What I continuously remember is when I was a child in the courtyard with my grandmother and we milked the goat and we made the ricotta. The still-warm ricotta from our goat, on top of a piece of bread, and we used to sprinkle just a little bit of honey or sugar on it. That flavor, that stays in my memory. "

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" Love and food are very similar in many ways. We can't survive without them, and they bring us great joy, and just as there is junk food, and you can become obese, there's also junk love. "

" Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures. "

M. F. K. Fisher

" I was raised by the Indian community, and those families are still very close to us. We used to go to each others' houses one Sunday a month, so we got to know everyone well. Also, we love Indian food and can't get enough of it. "

" Never be a food snob. Learn from everyone you meet - the fish guy at your market, the lady at the local diner, farmers, cheese makers. Ask questions, try everything and eat up! "

" Without sharks, you take away the apex predator of the ocean, and you destroy the entire food chain. "

" Each of us needs something - food, liquor, pot, whatever - to help us survive. Dracula needs blood. "

" We provide food that customers love, day after day after day. People just want more of it. "

" From dead plant matter to nematodes to bacteria, never underestimate the cleverness of mushrooms to find new food! "

" Keep it simple in the kitchen. If you use quality ingredients, you don't need anything fancy to make food delicious: just a knife, a cutting board, and some good nonstick cookware, and you're set. "

" I mean, I can cook, but I'd get very nervous having my food being judged by dinner guests. "

" I know some of you don't care about food stamps, but I'm telling you if it feeds children, you do care about it. "

Robert J. Bentley

" I love eating junk food. I'm a huge snacker, chips and candy. "

" When I come home, all I do is cook. I love cooking, so I go to markets, buy food, cook it for friends. I love doing that. "

" In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found. "

Alfred Russel Wallace

" People ask me all the time, 'What keeps you up at night?' And I say, 'Spicy Mexican food, weapons of mass destruction, and cyber attacks.' "

Dutch Ruppersberger