Food

You cant escape the taste of the food you had as a child. In times of stress, what do you dream about? Your mothers clam chowder. Its security, comfort. It brings you home. – Jacques Pepin

I say: If you dont know how to cook, Im sure you have at least one friend who knows how to cook. Well, call that friend and say, Can I come next time and can I bring some food and can I come an hour or two hours ahead and watch you and help you? – Jacques Pepin

I taped my first series for PBS in 1982 at WJCT-TV in Jacksonville, Florida. The show, called Everyday Cooking with Jacques Pepin, was about saving time and money in the kitchen – and it was a celebration of simple and unpretentious food. – Jacques Pepin

When I wrote Fast Food My Way in 2004, I hoped that my friends would prepare my recipes. Now, more people cook from that book than any other Ive written in the past 30 years. – Jacques Pepin

This June, Ill travel once again to the Food and Wine Magazine Classic in Aspen, Colorado. For many years, my dear friend Julia Child and I have teamed up to teach classes together at the event for the past seven years, my daughter, Claudine, has been my cooking partner on stage. – Jacques Pepin

Anorexia, you starve yourself. Bulimia, you binge and purge. You eat huge amounts of food until youre sick and then you throw up. And anorexia, you just deny yourself. Its about control. – Tracey Gold

Entrepreneurs always pitch their idea as the X of Y, so this is going to be the Microsoft of food. And yet disruptive innovations usually dont have that character. Most of the time, if something seems like a good idea, it probably isnt. – Eric Ries

Im not a Luddite, but Im outside more than Im on my computer. We have a micro-farm – its a step up from a garden. We have a pretty extensive vineyard. We grow about 60 percent of our own food, make our own wine, have chickens for eggs. – Emilio Estevez

I probably grow half my food. Its a good way to keep perspective. – Emilio Estevez

Ive been very lucky in the characters Ive chosen. Up until last year I was a nobody. I did jobs I booked because I needed to put food in my mouth. – Kristen Bell

Doing things like playing music, something thats so natural and basic to human function, running around in nature, eating delicious food. These things are intrinsic in basic, primordial to human beings, so thats sort of a way to return to a blank canvas, allowing my true personality to return. – Ezra Miller

I normally dont eat junk food. – Martin Yan

I dont like to waste anything. Any food left over from the night before is always eaten the next day. – Martin Yan

As long as the food is well prepared and not overdone, I think it tastes good. It doesnt matter if its Chinese, Japanese, anything. – Martin Yan

My quest these days is to find my long lost inner child, but Im afraid if I do, Ill end up with food in my hair and way too in love with the cats. – Kenny Loggins

Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they cant be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy. – Wendell Berry

I buy food and gasoline – thats it. – Kat Dennings

As a freelance writer, Id be asked to become an expert for various magazines on any subject, whether food or wine or history or the life span of veterinarians. I was completely unschooled in any of these things. – John Hodgman

Music is my No. 1 passion. If you made me choose between music and food, its definitely music. – Trisha Yearwood

In corn, I think Ive found the key to the American food chain. If you look at a fast-food meal, a McDonalds meal, virtually all the carbon in it – and what we eat is mostly carbon – comes from corn. – Michael Pollan