In the Seventies, my children played in the street, read politically incorrect stories, ate home-cooked food and occasional junk and, yes, were sometimes smacked.
When I stopped eating meat, I fell in love with East Indian food - there's so much selection, and they use the most beautiful spices.
French culture is known for many great attributes, some of which probably have nothing to do with food, wine, and romance.
The moment I walk into a room, I have kind of like the Terminator's tracking system for where the food is, and I can get there immediately.
Being a vegan is pretty easy these days, as almost every town and city has health food stores and vegetarian-friendly restaurants.
Food, like sex, is one of the principal kinds of human activity that engage people when they wonder about how to account for different kinds of human behaviour.
Food is no longer sacred to us: in becoming too efficient we've changed its nature.
In general, I try to eat food without added hormones and pesticides, but I'm not so strict that I won't have a Big Mac once in a while.
Regulation is necessary to protect our natural environment, keep our food and medicine safe, and ensure fair competition and fair treatment of our workers.
You have to balance, but you can be aggressive as a chef. It benefits the food. You have to be passionate. You can't be angry cooking.
Every time you use the word 'healthy,' you lose. The key is to make yummy, delicious food that happens to be healthy.
The dialogue and conversation about food is everywhere - television, chat rooms, social media outlets and among everyday conversations.
I was always getting run-down from jet lag and being in strange towns where I didn't speak the language or know what the food was like.
I don't like to waste anything. Any food left over from the night before is always eaten the next day.
I am terrible at making food. I love eating, but I can't make anything.
Civilization depends on our expanding ability to produce food efficiently, which has markedly accelerated thanks to science and technology.
'Shkoff' is to eat. 'Shkiaff' is to slap. Like, 'Gettouttahere I'm gonna give you a couple of shkiaffs,' or, 'Forget presentation, just shkiaff the food onto the plate.'
In Buddhist culture, offering food to the monk symbolizes the action of goodness, and if you have no opportunity to support the practice of spirituality, then you are somehow left in the realm of darkness.
Chefs think about what it's like to make food. Being a scientist in the kitchen is about asking why something works, and how it works.
Many of the things the slow food people honor were innovations within historical times. Somebody had to be the first European to eat a tomato.
But it's really hard to eat good when you're traveling because you see fast food and you want to go to this restaurant and that restaurant.
