Food

Asian food is very easy to like because it hits your mouth very differently than European food does. In European food, there may be two things to hit – maybe sweet and salty, maybe salty-savory, but Asian kind of works around, plus you have that distinct flavor thats usually working in Asian food. – Tom Colicchio

We are not really privy to all that crazy stuff that goes on in the show. I go to work, eat, and talk about food. The wild things happen when we arent around. I expected Top Chef to last three or four seasons and we are now shooting season ten. – Tom Colicchio

Were adults. Were the ones who should teach the kids whats good to eat. I dont think the government should ever regulate what we eat at home, but were feeding them in school with tax dollars. Quite frankly, if my tax dollars are being spent to feed kids, Id rather feed them better food. – Tom Colicchio

Theres a food revolution going on throughout the country. And it doesnt matter if youre down south, up north in Maine, if youre out west in Portland or Seattle. – Tom Colicchio

But its really hard to eat good when youre traveling because you see fast food and you want to go to this restaurant and that restaurant. – Nicole Polizzi

But Australia faces additional regional and global challenges also crucial to our nations future – climate change, questions of energy and food security, the rise of China and the rise of India. And we need a strong system of global and regional relationships and institutions to underpin stability. – Kevin Rudd

You feel better when youre eating food that retains nutritional value. – Amber Heard

In the States, you can buy Chinese food. In Beijing you can buy hamburger. Its very close. Now I feel the world become a big family, like a really big family. You have many neighbors. Not like before, two countries are far away. – Jet Li

The less you do to beautiful food, the better its going to taste. You dont need to mess with it all the time. – Gail Simmons

Im tempted by everything. My husband makes fun of me because every day its a new food that I love. I have a weakness for butterscotch pudding, ice cream in any flavor and dark chocolate, although thats one thing I do keep in my house – 70% dark chocolate. – Gail Simmons

Theres not a single chef I know of that does not think about the politics of the food theyre serving. – Gail Simmons

There are days when I literally have to eat 17 plates of food – its intense. Its about moderation. You just need a few bites to get the gist of a dish. – Gail Simmons

Fast sex, like fast food, is cheap, but it doesnt nourish the body – or the soul. – Suzanne Fields

I was born in the 60s and grew up in the 70s – not exactly the best decade for food in British history. It was horrendous. It was a time when, as a nation, we excelled in art and music and acting and photography and fashion – all creative skills… all apart from cooking. – Heston Blumenthal

You think about some of the most memorable meals youve ever had the food will be good but it will often be about locating a mental memory and taste is inexorably linked to all the other senses and memory, so ultimately it is all about taste. – Heston Blumenthal

Its easy for people in an air-conditioned room to continue with the policies of destruction of Mother Earth. We need instead to put ourselves in the shoes of families in Bolivia and worldwide that lack water and food and suffer misery and hunger. – Evo Morales

When I came to the Food Network, I didnt want to do a cooking show. I told Kathleen Finch for nine months I didnt want to do a cooking show, I wanted to do a home-and-garden show. – Sandra Lee

Im not sure that some of the food purists are in touch with what really goes on in American households. – Sandra Lee

Its really easy to figure out why I love what I love, the holidays and food. I know the difference between having them and not having them. – Sandra Lee

Im the only girl on The Food Network who grills – I have two bestselling grilling books. I try to really focus on what men and women can do outside together out on the grill. I think its really fun to have men and women out there together, having fun, working and enjoying themselves. – Sandra Lee