- Fault
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- Nov 07, 2020
Food Quotes
Food as comfort, hardship, and honest confession.
This collection spans food's range, from the humiliation of accidentally poisoning a dinner guest to a genuine hardship of not having enough money for basic meals or clothes while starting out. For lighter, image-ready food lines, see Captions.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
For most of us, our protective lies or omissions are so insignificant that being found out would be only mildly embarrassing. But for some of us, our secret may threaten to destroy everything. And that is food and drink to a novelist.
- Famous
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've probably got lots of heroes. One is a chap called Charles Campbell - he is a wonderful chap. We cooked together in a nightclub in Notting Hill. He told me brilliant stories of food and life and generally put me on the right track.
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
I cook British food, but it doesn't mean I'm jingoistic about it. People can cook very good fusion food.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
What worries me is that, because of the amount of media coverage of food, Britain seems to have become a foodie nation - but I'm not sure it actually has. I'm not sure there's been a huge change in the pantry at home or what we cook for supper.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my country, we say that football is like a huge plate of food. Well, I want to eat everything because I want to win every trophy I can for City.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
We never have business meals at El Bulli. If it's about business, you're probably not paying much attention to the food.
- Cooking
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a child plays sport early in childhood, and doesn't give it up, he will play sport for the rest of his life. And if children have a connection with, and are involved in the preparation of, the food they eat, then it will be normal for them to cook these kind of meals, and they will go on cooking them for the rest of their lives.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
Monkeys don't enjoy or appreciate flavours. Experts have told us that human beings are the only beings that can appreciate food at this higher level and the only living beings that cook.
- Cuisines
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everywhere the sky is blue. There are a multitude of cuisines and dishes. I think of them as the languages and dialects of food.
- Crazy
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- Nov 07, 2020