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

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" Food was a labor of love you felt by cooking it and eating it. "

George Tillman, Jr.

" 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. "

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

" The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified delicacy of all: impunity. "

" Labor gives birth to ideas. "

" We need the humbleness and clarity to see that our food, while benefitting from technological advances, has benefitted even more from free ecological resources: Cheap energy, lots of water everywhere, and a stable climate. "

" There's so much importance in honoring your everyday hero. It doesn't take money. It doesn't take connections. What matters is that people get involved. Whether your passion is gun control or food or whatever it may be, everybody needs to stop being so self-absorbed. "

" I won't eat anything green. "

" I get way too much happiness from good food. "

Elizabeth Olsen

" It's easy for Americans to forget that the food they eat doesn't magically appear on a supermarket shelf. "

Christopher Dodd

" If you're using first-class land for biofuels, then you're competing with the growing of food. And so you're actually spiking food prices by moving energy production into agriculture. "

" When I'm back in New York - and this is a terrible thing to complain about - I eat a lot more really, really good food than perhaps I'd like to. So many of my friends are really good chefs. It's kind of like being in the Mafia. "

Anthony Bourdain

" There is no doubt that some plant food, such as oatmeal, is more economical than meat, and superior to it in regard to both mechanical and mental performance. Such food, moreover, taxes our digestive organs decidedly less, and, in making us more contented and sociable, produces an amount of good difficult to estimate. "

" I am writing to all the churches to let it be known that I will gladly die for God if only you do not stand in my way... Let me be food for the wild beasts, for they are my way to God. "

Ignatius of Antioch

" Grief is a bad moon, a sleeper wave. It's like having an inner combatant, a saboteur who, at the slightest change in the sunlight, or at the first notes of a jingle for a dog food commercial, will flick the memory switch, bringing tears to your eyes. "

Meghan O'Rourke

" There's no such thing as 'bad' food or 'good' food. "

" The cure until the late 1940s, when there was an antibiotic discovered for tuberculosis, was basically rest. It was fresh, cold air, lots of food - five meals a day, lots of sleep, not very much talking, and for some people, complete stillness. "

" I grew up eating fried food. I thought that macaroni and cheese was a vegetable. "

" Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals. "

Finley Peter Dunne

" There's nothing very exotic about classic Chilean street food. Imagine a hot dog hidden beneath an explosion of mayonnaise and ketchup. Cost? Twenty-five to 30 pence. This is the completo, an all-purpose solution to breakfast, lunch or, once, the curiously English teatime snack enjoyed by Chileans of all ages. "

Jonathan Franklin

" Like Hollywood movies, MTV and blue jeans, fast food has become one of America's major cultural exports. "

" 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. "

" I did this book 'Harvest for Hope,' and I learned so much about food. And one thing I learned is that we have the guts not of a carnivore, but of an herbivore. Herbivore guts are very long because they have to get the last bit of nutrition out of leaves and things. "

" Food feeds our souls. It is the single great unifier across all cultures. The table offers a sanctuary and a place to come together for unity and understanding. "

Lidia Bastianich

" You can't have a healthy civilization without healthy soil. You can't have junk food and have healthy people. "

" If I like a food, I'll eat it, even if I know it's not good for me. "

" Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply. "

" Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country. "

" For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the superficial 'I eat ethnic food', to something dignified, mutually respectful and worthwhile. "

Randa Abdel-Fattah