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" Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are. "

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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" A waffle is like a pancake with a syrup trap. "

" As women, we understand our bodies, and there's a blossoming that occurs. We're hungry for gourmet meals instead of the fast food. We bring to life a more expansive understanding of life, ourselves, and others. We are more generous and assertive. "

" Recipes are important but only to a point. What's more important than recipes is how we think about food, and a good cookbook should open up a new way of doing just that. "

" We are stronger as a group than an individual. Think in a cooperative and communal way, set up local food hubs and create growing communities. "

Arthur Potts Dawson

" 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. "

" Without strenuous preplanning, road food is almost always bad food, sad food, chain food, clown food. "

" I think that once people understand the great risks that climate change poses, they will naturally want to choose products and services that cause little or no emissions of greenhouse gases, which means 'low-carbon consumption.' This will apply across the board, including electricity, heating, transport and food. "

" Frankly, any city person who doesn't think I deserve a white-collar salary as a farmer doesn't deserve my special food. "

" Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water. "

" I'm trying to cut down a little on eating, on sodium, keep my blood pressure down, which is tough. Because I love food! I do, but it's unfair how everything that's bad for you tastes so good, and all the good stuff, veggies and green things, doesn't match up. "

" Long as I was riding in a big Cadillac and dressed nice and had plenty of food, that's all I cared about. "

" I always say that candy is the perfect studio food - it keeps your energy going. "

" Food can be expressive and therefore food can be art. "

" In coastal waters rich in runoff, plankton can swarm densely, a million in a drop of water. They color the sea brown and green where deltas form from big rivers, or cities dump their sewage. Tiny yet hugely important, plankton govern how well the sea harvests the sun's bounty, and so are the foundation of the ocean's food chain. "

Gregory Benford

" Perhaps more than any other, the food industry is very sensitive to consumer demand. "

" Nobody had ever told me junk food was bad for me. Four years of medical school, and four years of internship and residency, and I never thought anything was wrong with eating sweet rolls and doughnuts, and potatoes, and bread, and sweets. "

" 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

" The traditional family table is round. No corners. No sides. No head. No tail. Everything is smooth. The food is in the center, and each family member reaches over the same distance. Someone you love is next to you on each side, and no one is last or at the end. The person farthest away from you is also the person facing you. "

" I eat a variety of foods like vegetables, fruit and beef for protein and iron. "

" The most dangerous food is wedding cake. "

" Ice cream is my comfort food. "

" 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. "

" When I eat with my friends, it is a moment of real pleasure, when I really enjoy my life. "

Monica Bellucci

" It seems strange that bears, so fond of all sorts of flesh, running the risks of guns and fires and poison, should never attack men except in defense of their young. How easily and safely a bear could pick us up as we lie asleep! Only wolves and tigers seem to have learned to hunt man for food, and perhaps sharks and crocodiles. "