- Independent
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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
- Holiday
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dad likes my food, but he probably thinks it's too busy. He is a wonderful cook but only uses three ingredients. My mum rips out my articles and makes my recipes.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to talk about food, ingredients, and how to adapt recipes. It's a dialogue.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Food was always important in my family, but I didn't think of it as a vocation until a later point in life.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the troubles with food is that people take themselves too seriously. This is why I'm very happy for people to change my recipes, alter them, replace one ingredient for another.
- Mouth
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Guardian's 'Word of Mouth' blog bridges the gap between blogging and serious food journalism.
- See
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fusion food as a concept is kind of trying to quite consciously fuse things that are sometimes quite contradictory, sometimes quite far apart, to see if they'd work.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
I cook everything from Italian to Cajun food. I have now mastered the roux for gumbo. I love cooking.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Good food is healthy food. Food is supposed to sustain you so you can live better, not so you can eat more. Some people eat to live, and some people live to eat.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
With so much evidence of depleting natural resources, toxic waste, climate change, irreparable harm to our food chain and rapidly increasing instances of natural disasters, why do we keep perpetuating the problem? Why do we continue marching at the same alarming beat?
- Great Actor
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- Nov 07, 2020