Quotes of: Food-network Keyword

When people say they prefer organic food, what they often seem to mean is they don't want their food tainted with pesticides and their meat shot full of hormones or antibiotics. Many object to the way a few companies - Monsanto is the most famous of ...

Michael Specter

In terms of foods for me, I think I have more of the usual associations - foods from childhood that I associate with care and love, from relatives or special restaurants like the kind elderly man who dusted seasoning salt on French fries at the corne...

Aimee Bender

The adults said the only good food was the bacon, but the kids knew better. They had never had a more fun breakfast in their lives. Although they had to agree the bacon was very good. Then again, it was bacon. It was always good.

Ella M

We can’t go from zero to sixty in a day or even a week when it comes to shifting our food-habit gears. We have to take baby steps, starting with an increasing awareness of our habits and a willingness to chip away at the ones that aren’t doing us...

Cravings: A Catholic Wrestles with Food, Self-Image, and God

I can think of no sadder example of our food paradigm than two posters taped to the window of a California IHOP. One is a colorful photo of pancakes heaped with bananas, strawberries, nuts, syrups and whipped cream with the caption, 'Welcome to Parad...

The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce, and Obsession

Our holiday food splurge was a small crate of tangerines, which we found ridiculously thrilling after an eight-month abstinence from citrus.... Lily hugged each one to her chest before undressing it as gently as a doll. Watching her do that as she sa...

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

Sometimes Alton Darwin would talk to me about the planet he was on before he was transported in a steel box to Athena. 'Drugs were food,' he said. 'I was in the food business. Just because people on one planet eat a certain kind of food they're hungr...

Hocus Pocus

This is considered almost holy work by farmers and ranchers. Kill off everything you can't eat. Kill off anything that eats what you eat. Kill off anything that doesn't feed what you eat." "It IS holy work, in Taker culture. The more competitors you ...

Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit

A human being is primarily a bag for putting food into; the other functions and faculties may be more godlike, but in point of time they come afterwards. A man dies and is buried, and all his words and actions are forgotten, but the food he has eaten...

The Road to Wigan Pier

Ramadan is not fasting. Ramadan is an Islamic feast where one stuffs oneself twice a day with food, and in between lets ones intestines dry out. To describe that process as 'fasting' seems rather ubiquitous to me. The amount of food transported into ...

Martinus Hendrikus Benders

For some Chicago expats, food is the medicine that blunts the pain of separation.

Mary Schmich

It is not right to associate the fight against international terrorist networks with an imaginary crusade against Islam.

Omar Bongo

Poker would have never gotten on TV when we only had three networks.

Penn Jillette

I used to be a rabid reader, but now it's scripts or nothing - network television is quite relentless, and you can't drop the ball.

Robert Carlyle

You don't have to be a nerd or a programmer or a network engineer to make a difference.

Rebecca MacKinnon

I once called the head of a network a liar. In hindsight, I should have called him an incompetent liar.

Steven Levitan

I have no problem at all going back and forth between cable and network.

Shawn Ryan

In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.

Ted Koppel

Anthology shows as a whole scare people. The networks can't quite get their heads around it.

Todd McFarlane

I believe photos is one of the underlying things in every social network that becomes successful.

Kevin Systrom

As electronic journalism came to be evaluated for its cost effectiveness, the network world began breaking up.

Roger Mudd