- American
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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 Jul 30, 2026
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
I generally only eat one meal a day, which is pretty unusual for a restaurant reviewer. It's not that I have a problem with food; I'll eat anything that doesn't involve a bet, a dare, or an initiation ceremony.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't do dinner parties. I have people come to share the food I've cooked for the family.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think people know that I love food, but maybe people don't know that I cook a lot.
- Nov 07, 2020
For a long time, I couldn't even afford food and clothing. I climbed from the very bottom of the society.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I travel, there are no rules with my diet. I eat whatever looks good, but in small portions. Food is such a rich part of the travel experience. There is no way I would cut that out!
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would still like to own and run a restaurant serving Indian food with a good dollop of Parsi cooking - which you can't seem to get anywhere.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We live in a capitalist society and if we're talking about the people at the bottom of the food chain, it's women of colour.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being nerdy just means being passionate about something, including everyone - the coolest people on Earth are passionate and therefore nerdy about something whatever it is, whether it's sports, or gaming, or technology, or fashion, or beauty, or food, or whatever.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
GM has never been about feeding the world or tackling environmental problems. It is and has always been about control of the global food economy by a tiny handful of giant corporations. It's not wicked to question that process. It is wicked not to.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
All schools should teach children basic cooking skills. Every school should be able to buy sustainable, good quality food wherever possible from local sources. Every school should include food-growing in the curriculum. For some, that will mean twinning with willing farms. For others, it will mean literally building their own small farms.
- Exporting
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- Nov 07, 2020
The food system is not a free market. In this country, we impose reasonably high standards of animal welfare - but we haven't applied the same standards to food we import, so all we're really doing is exporting cruelty from Britain elsewhere, and at the same time undermining our farmers.
- Practice
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- Nov 07, 2020