Let me be the first to tell you, drinking alcohol is the worst thing to do in cold weather. Hot soup is the best because the process of digesting food helps to warm you up.
The best thing you can do for someone is make them a beautiful plate of food. How else can you invade someone's body without actually touching them?
It is difficult to get organic food at most restaurants, so when possible, eat at home. When not, do your best.
My favorite healthy foods are Jamaican chicken soup, Jamaican chicken stew peas, Jamaican brown stew chicken, plantains and banana chips.
Sustainability is best illustrated by those who sell food … just so they afford something to eat.
Choose between dying of hunger or a bullet to the head. This means you either suffer without food or get killed
I was far too embarrassed to share the experience of Indian food at school. As a kid, you're desperate to fit in, to assimilate in some way, and everything about me stood out.
I spent a college semester in a small town in Italy - and that is where I truly tasted food for the first time.
I just want to serve food that people want to eat, and show a way forward for the restaurant industry, for all industries. One day, everything I've done will be worthwhile.
You can't have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.
I'm pretty earthy; I nursed forever because I liked it and my kids liked it, but at the same time I'm very laissez-faire about stuff like bedtimes and food.
It's a funny thing about me. I don't have any interest in food most of the time now, although when I was a kid I was always hungry.
Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardship. Spiritual and social ostracism, the invasion of your privacy, are what constitute the pain of poverty.
What I used to do between writing fits was feed my kids, ride my horse and go shopping for cat and dog food.
For the most part this is a place to find down-to-earth advice on everyday cooking, eating, food shopping, cooking equipment, and nice things to put on your table.
In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found.
I do feel like food should cost more, because we aren't paying farmers a living wage. It has to cost more.
Organize yourself so you aren't struggling to shop at the last minute. When you have real food, it's very easy to cook.
Basically, the person in the White House should be principled, should have a philosophy about food that relates directly to organic agriculture. I will continue to push for that.
Clearly, America's dysfunctional food culture must bear some of the blame for our excess pounds, but it's likely our walking-averse lifestyles contribute as well.
If I spoke Italian, I'd be in Italy in a minute. I love the food, I love the way people live there. I mean, it really is my idea of paradise.
