Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Food Quotes
CultureFoodLifestyleLocal customsTravel Nobody in Singapore drinks Singapore Slings. It's one of the first things you find out there. What you do in Singapore is eat. It's a really food-crazy culture, where all of this great food is available in a kind of hawker-stand environment.
DisgustFoodHumor Okra is the closest thing to nylon I've ever eaten. It's like they bred cotton with a green bean. Okra, tastes like snot. The more you cook it, the more it turns into string.
DesireFoodLove And RelationshipsPrioritiesWeakness My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order.
Culinary ArtsFoodPleasureSatisfactionTaste Anyone who's a chef, who loves food, ultimately knows that all that matters is: 'Is it good? Does it give pleasure?'
CookingEffortFoodPerfectionQuality Those places I don't understand, just doing bad food. It takes some doing. Making good pasta is so much easier than making bad stuff. It actually takes quite an effort to make poor linguine pomodora.
FamilyFoodIndulgenceLeisureTravel When I'm home, I spend Sunday with my husband. If we're not cooking, we travel around in our camper, stop at fast-food restaurants, and picnic. We love that stuff that will harden your arteries in a hurry.
CulinaryCultureFoodPreferenceTravel Tokyo would probably be the foreign city if I had to eat one city's food for the rest of my life, every day. It would have to be Tokyo, and I think the majority of chefs you ask that question would answer the same way.
CultureFoodLocationPreferenceTravel You'd have a hard time finding anything better than Barcelona for food, as far as being a hub. Given a choice between Barcelona and San Sebastian to die in, I'd probably want to die in San Sebastian.
CuisineDiningFoodRomance I love Indian, Italian and Mexican food. And if it's a romantic type of thing, I like a good French restaurant.
FamilyFoodHealthIndulgenceJoy My father opened a restaurant. It's so amazing... it's so freaking delicious, but I'm telling you I gain five pounds every time I go in there.
FoodHealthHumorSelf-awareness Every chef I know, their cholesterol is through the roof. And mine's not so great.
CultureDaily LifeFoodPleasureTradition The Italians and Spanish, the Chinese and Vietnamese see food as part of a larger, more essential and pleasurable part of daily life. Not as an experience to be collected or bragged about - or as a ritual like filling up a car - but as something else that gives pleasure, like sex or music, or a good nap in the afternoon.
