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If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?
Joyce Carol Oates on food

I was always on the go, and thought I was too busy to develop something like this. I thought at the time that diabetes went along with bad habits, but I was the last one in my family to eat junk food.
Angie Stone on food

Food has always brought me comfort and the bingeing is triggered when I'm in a space that is not positive.
Janet Jackson on food

I kept thinking, 'Somebody has to make a food show that is actually educational and entertaining at the same time... a show that got down to the 'why things happen.' Plus, I hated my job - I didn't think it was very worthwhile.
Alton Brown on food

You don't want flame to hit your food. Flame is bad. Flame does nasty things to food. It makes soot and it makes deposits of various chemicals that are not too good for us. The last thing you really want to see licking at your food while it's on a grill is an actual flame.
Alton Brown on food

I spent a college semester in a small town in Italy - and that is where I truly tasted food for the first time.
Alton Brown on food

You know most of the food that Americans hold so dear - things like hamburgers and hot dogs - were road food, but even before they were road food, they were peasant food.
Alton Brown on food

I think a lot of food shows, especially when we started 'Good Eats' back in the late '90s, they were still really about food. 'Good Eats' isn't about food, it's about entertainment. If, however, we can virally infect you with knowledge or interest, then all the better.
Alton Brown on food

I'm a filmmaker who decided to go to culinary school. All I picked up was the fact if I didn't understand what was going on with every single ingredient, I could be qualifying for, like, the lunch food job at my daughter's school.
Alton Brown on food

I am a filmmaker. That is all I've ever been. You know, Martin Scorsese makes films about the mob. And I make movies about food.
Alton Brown on food

Do not allow watching food to replace making food.
Alton Brown on food

Keep it simple in the kitchen. If you use quality ingredients, you don't need anything fancy to make food delicious: just a knife, a cutting board, and some good nonstick cookware, and you're set.
Curtis Stone on food

I hate menus, I hate choosing food. I just want to be brought. Bring me dinner!
Hugh Laurie on food

Food - I love nuts. I eat them all the time, they're easy to carry around, and I am never hungry all day long.
Mehmet Oz on food

Most food you drop is still perfectly edible. If it was in your eyesight the whole time, you can pick it up and eat it.
Mehmet Oz on food

There are a lot of food Nazis in the U.S., but I believe if you can show people what's really important, they'll judge the rest for themselves.
Mehmet Oz on food

Food is no longer sacred to us: in becoming too efficient we've changed its nature.
Mehmet Oz on food

I think wine is such a big universe that it's kind of like food - it's intimidating to a lot of people, myself included.
Padma Lakshmi on food

People always comment about my clothes. They don't think a fashionable woman can love food and be knowledgeable and actually cook.
Padma Lakshmi on food

Without food, man can live at most but a few weeks without it, all other components of social justice are meaningless.
Norman Borlaug on food