Everything in food works together to create health or disease. The more we think that a single chemical characterizes a whole food, the more we stray into idiocy. - T Colin Campbell Healthful whole foods improve our brain function as well. - Marilu Henner Years later, on a Steve Jobs discussion board on the website Gawker, the following tale appeared from someone who had worked at the Whole Foods store in Palo Alto a few blocks from Jobs' home: 'I was shagging carts one afternoon when I saw this silver Mercedes parked in a handicapped spot. Steve Jobs was inside screaming at his car phone. This was right before the first iMac was unveiled and I'm pretty sure I could make out, 'Not. Fucking. Blue. Enough!!! - Walter Isaacson The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much. - A J Jacobs It was through eavesdropping that I learned that you could buy fresh peanut butter at Whole Foods from a machine that grinds it in fro...

I'd sit around dreaming that the boys I saw at shows or at work - the boys with silver earrings and big boots - would tell me I was beautiful, take me home and feed me Thai food or omelets and undress me and make love to me all night with the palm trees whispering windsongs about a tortured gleaming city and the moonlight like flame melting our candle bodies. - Francesca Lia Block Short of screaming-hot Thai food, everything can be suitable for kids too. - Guy Fieri

It has long been known for sure that the sight of tasty food makes a hungry man's mouth water; also lack of appetite has always been regarded as an undesirable phenomenon, from which one might conclude that appetite is essentially linked with the process of digestion. - Ivan Pavlov It's almost seems as though there's a battle going on between the public and all the fast-food establishments, and, believe me, I think it's very tasty food. - Regis Philbin

My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food. - David Byrne It's like spicy food - sometimes you have to tone it down so more people can enjoy it. - Kenneth Edmonds I only eat spicy food. - Joshua Ledet I love spicy food. - Cynthia Nixon In my travels, I also noticed that kids in Thailand like spicy food, and kids in India love curry. I'm hoping to introduce my son, Hudson, to lots of veggies and spices when he's young. I say that before he's started on solid foods, so it could be easier in theory than practice! - Curtis Stone

Without such a thing as fast food, there would be no need for slow food, - Michael Pollan People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue. - Michael Pollan

I'm in an environment where I have a lot of information about how to stay healthy and live a good life. I love vegan and raw food, I love to exercise. If I weren't in this business, I think I would be aging differently. - Connie Britton I also try to eat as much raw food and clean food as possible. - Kirsty Gallacher Many other raw food products--notably poultry from CAFOs--typically carry a much higher threat to human health in terms of pathogen load, and yet the government trusts us to render it safe in our own humble kitchens. But it's easy to see how impossibly strict milk rules might gratify industry lobbyists, by eliminating competition from family producers. - Barbara Kingsolver

We are talking about a programme which claims that 'processed foods do not contain water', possibly the single most rapidly falsifiable statement I've seen all week. What about soup? - Ben Goldacre Research has shown that even small amounts of processed food alter the chemical balance in our brain and cause negative mood swings along with noticeable dips ill energy. - Marilu Henner Paradoxically Americans are becoming both more obese and more nutrient deficient at the same time. Obese children eating processed foods are nutrient depleted and increasingly get scurvy and rickets, diseases we thought were left behind in the 19th and 20th centuries. - Mark E Hyman Maybe most important, farm food itself is totally different from what most people now think of as food: none of those colorful boxed and bagged products, precut, parboiled, ready to eat, and engineered to appeal to our basest desires. We were selling the opposite: naked, unprocessed food, two steps from the dirt. ...

I cannot admit this out loud. In the first place, we are expected to be supermoms these days, instead of admitting that we have flaws. It is tempting to believe that all mothers wake up feeling fresh every morning, never raise their voices, only cook with organic food, and are equally at ease with the CEO and the PTA. - Jodi Picoult When I can afford it, I'm very into organic food and I love going to restaurants that use organic produce and such. I think that it's a shame for everyone that, unfortunately, organic can be pretty expensive, so you just do what you can. - Sprague Grayden I cook. I go to farmers markets in London and cook really good sort of organic foods. - Keira Knightley When I tour, I stuff fridges full of organic food and stick to that. - Avril Lavigne I've been eating tons of organic foods, staying away from processed sugars, white flours, and anything artificial. It's the same as my normal regime, but I'm being even stricter, because everythi...

Mexican food is far more varied than people think. It changes like dialects. I was brought up in Jalisco by the sea on a basic diet - tomatoes, chillis, peppers of every size and rice, which is a Mexican staple. The Pacific coast has a huge array of seafood. - Gael Garcia Bernal Yes, Horus said. I remember this place. It's El Paso, I told him. Unless you went out for Mexican Food, you've never been here. - Rick Riordan You can't get decent Mexican food in DC. - Michael Crichton Flushed with the explosive shit of a sumo wrestler who ate Mexican food. - Hillary Frank My very first kiss happened when I was 6, underneath some desks during 'nap time', but my first real kiss happened when I was 15 in the parking lot at a Mexican food restaurant. - Armie Hammer I wanted to get away from the Mexican vernacular and do more 'nuevo Latino.' Americans are starting to understand regionality in Mexican food. It is very regional in terms of ingredients. - Aaron Sanc...

Families are struggling against a tide of junk information on junk food. - Diane Abbott Cracker Jacks don't count as junk food because they're corn and peanuts, which we know to be high in nutrition. And they have a prize inside. - Janet Evanovich So I ring Justine Kalinsky and I say, "It's Francesca Spinelli," and she says, "Francesca, you've got to stop using last names. How are you doing?" and I say "I feel like shit", and I don't know how it happens, but by eight o'clock that night I'm lying next to her on the couch with Siobhan and Tara and we're eating junk food and watching a Keanu movie. And I want to stay on that couch for the rest of my life. - Melina Marchetta I love all kinds of bread. Whenever I crave junk food, I want salty things like peanuts or potato chips. - Tyra Banks Eating overeating saved me. It comforted me when I was at the mercy of grown-ups who didn't know how to give what I needed. Food ...

Many rock musicians are excellent cooks, I've found, and those that are prefer to eat their own cooking in the studio. I encourage this behavior as I also enjoy the benefits of fresh food. - Steve Albini Instead of hunting and gathering, instead of farming and harvesting in the area where we live, we are flying God's fruits and vegetables around the planet, not eating foods designed for our terrain and climate. We are distributing, selling and consuming "fresh foods" (or so the package says) days and weeks after they have been harvested. - Celso Cukierkorn Dickens writes that an event, began to be forgotten, as most affairs are, when wonder, having no fresh food to support it, dies away of itself. - Charles Dickens The very fact that we are having a national conversation about what we should eat, that we are struggling with the question about what the best diet is, is symptomatic of how far we have strayed from the natural conditions that gave rise to our species,...

Well, we lost a lot of our independence already. We are dependent on China for credit. We are dependent on Middle Eastern countries for energy supplies. And many Americans are dependent on the government for their income, health care, education of their children, food stamps. - Jim Demint I was always the new kid in school, I'm the kid from a broken family, I'm the kid who had no dad showing up at the father-son stuff, I'm the kid that was using food stamps at the grocery store. - Dave Mustaine If you need food stamps, you should meet the criteria. - Bob Goodlatte The US head of state grew up on food stamps. The British head of state grew up on the postage stamps. - Johann Hari The American head of state grew up with a mother on food stamps. The British head of state grew up with a mother on postage stamps. Is that a contrast that fills you with pride? - Johann Hari Baba dropped the stack of food stamps on her desk. "Thank you but I don't want," Baba sai...

Well, we lost a lot of our independence already. We are dependent on China for credit. We are dependent on Middle Eastern countries for energy supplies. And many Americans are dependent on the government for their income, health care, education of their children, food stamps. - Jim Demint I was always the new kid in school, I'm the kid from a broken family, I'm the kid who had no dad showing up at the father-son stuff, I'm the kid that was using food stamps at the grocery store. - Dave Mustaine President Obama is the most successful food stamp president in American history. I would like to be the most successful paycheck president in American history. - Newt Gingrich If you need food stamps, you should meet the criteria. - Bob Goodlatte The US head of state grew up on food stamps. The British head of state grew up on the postage stamps. - Johann Hari The American head of state grew up with a mother on food stamps. The British head of state grew up with a mother on pos...

There were different challenges along the way. Certainly the food shortage was unpleasant. - Leroy Chiao Grow a garden. When there's a food shortage in the future, you'll need it. And when people try to steal your food and you shoot them, you'll also need a good place to hide the bodies. - Jarod Kintz

I brought you a snack," Takumi said, dropping an oatmeal cream pie onto my book. "Very nutritious," I smiled. "You've got your oats. You've got your meal. You've got your cream. It's a fuckin' food pyramid. - John Green The food pyramid is very complicated. It doesn't give you as much info in a quick glance as the plate does. - Tom Vilsack

Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy. - Wendell Berry To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd. - Wendell Berry I am but one member of a vast team made up of many organizations, officials, thousands of scientists, and millions of farmers - mostly small and humble - who for many years have been fighting a quiet, oftentimes losing war on the food production front. - Norman Borlaug We wouldn't think of going to our doctor and saying 'Treat me the way doctors treated people in the 19th Century', and yet that's what we're demanding in food production. - Nina Fedoroff Farms and food production should be, I submit, at least as important as who pierced their navel in Hollywood this week. Please tell me I'm not the only one who believes this. Please. As a culture, we think we're well edu...

I got food poisoning today. I don't know when I'll use it. - Steven Wright There's more of gravey than grave about you, whatever you are! - Scrooge, referring to Marley's ghost which he believes is a hallucination from food poisoning - Charles Dickens Then Jack turned to her. Safari? That was the best excuse you could come up with for me not being at a meeting?" She winced apologetically. "I'm sorry. I'm a terrible liar." What was wrong with simple sickness? A nice, normal bout of food poisoning?" He was in a bad mood. I kind of got carried away," she admitted. Boy, are you lucky I watched Tarzan so much as a kid. - Sarah Mayberry And by the way, my belief is that if men were the ones getting pregnant, abortions would be easier to get than food poisoning in Moscow - Dennis Miller In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of...

I was at a party, and some squiggly looking dude with a bow tie came up and said, 'How'd you like to be on TV?' Turns out he was the programming guy at the Food Network. They had me come into the office, and I did a 'Ready, Set, Cook' with Emeril Lagasse, I believe. - Mario Batali 'The Food Network' was just starting in New York, and I was getting lots of attention from Mesa Grill. They had no money, so if you couldn't get there by subway, you couldn't be on. It wasn't like TV was something I really wanted to do - but I knew it would be great publicity for my restaurants. - Bobby Flay Nobody believed the 'Food Network' could last. Even I was short sighted and thought to myself, 24 hours of food on TV? They'll run out of things to talk about in four days! But that wasn't true. 'Food Network' continues to get better and evolve. - Bobby Flay Don't try to be the next Rachael Ray or Bobby Flay, we already have those peop...

People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health, and are treated by the health industry, which pays no attention to food. - Wendell Berry The development of the food industry for both domestic and export markets relies on a regulatory framework that both protects the consumer and assures fair trading practices in food. - Gro Harlem Brundtland However, as a parent, as a grandparent, as a former educator, I know that these practices alone when we are dealing with young children are insufficient. We will never control this rising epidemic without greater accountability from the food industry. - Bob Filner Congress is headed in the wrong direction with this bill which removes any and all incentives from the food industry to improve their products for children. - Bob Filner It's an empowering idea. The entire goliath of the food industry is driven and determined by the choices we make as the waiter gets impatient for our order or in the practicalities ad whim...

I saw 'Food, Inc.' last night - it was like a horror movie. I'm definitely thinking about my food supply now and how I want to grow my own. - Lauren Ambrose As incisively pointed out in the documentary Food Inc.," an overwhelmingly large percentage of "new," healthy," and "organic" alternative food products are actually owned by the same parent companies that scared us into the organic aisle in the first place. "They got you comin' and goin'" has never been truer. - Anthony Bourdain But the economic meltdown should have undone, once and for all, the idea of poverty as a personal shortcoming or dysfunctional state of mind. The lines at unemployment offices and churches offering free food includes strivers as well as slackers, habitual optimists as well as the chronically depressed. When and if the economy recovers we can never allow ourselves to forget how widespread our vulnerability is, how easy it is to spiral down toward ...