quotations about food
Once you become an elaborate and well-developed culture, anything from Rome or the Etruscans, for that matter, the food starts to become a representation of what the culture is. When the food can transcend being just fuel, that's when you start to see these different permutations.
MARIO BATALI
"The Traditions of the Table"
Food is like a chameleon meandering through the historical landscape changing its symbolic expression to meet the vagaries of the socio/cultural domain.
JANE FERRY
Food in Film
You can't just eat good food. You've got to talk about it too. And you've got to talk about it to somebody who understands that kind of food.
KURT VONNEGUT
Jailbird
Food has it over sex for variety. Hedonistically, gustatory possibilities are much broader than copulatory ones.
JOSEPH EPSTEIN
Familiar Territory
Food was always a conduit in our family for storytelling, and it was a way for us to keep in touch and remember things. We're people that use food to keep each other together and to always cheer us up and make all of our days better.
RACHEL RAY
Newsweek, Oct. 15, 2007
There are primitivists who contend that one should eat only raw plant foods, conspiracy theorists who view all processed foods as poisonous, food industry toadies who insist that the best foods are engineered, contrarians who are all too ready to subvert the conventional nutritional wisdom, classic conservatives who will go to any lengths to defend the majority opinion against all evidence, and other types. There will come a day when our growing scientific knowledge of human nutrition squeezes out most of the ideologists, but we're not there yet.
MATT FITZGERALD
Runner's World Performance Nutrition for Runners
You are what what you eat eats.
MICHAEL POLLAN
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
We ought to know about our culinary past. Food and identity is terribly important ... I don't mean we should go out and eat historic dishes, but we should know what makes us different ... self-confident nations have that sense of where they come from.
TOM JAINE
Weekend Telegraph, Sep. 30, 2000
The best foods are organically grown and come straight from the garden to the dinner table fresh, clean, and pure.
BRUCE FIFE
The Detox Book