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.
I wear a pedometer, aiming for five miles a day - don't be too impressed; that includes walking around my house and food shopping.
I didn't realise how much I ate Mexican food, like tacos and burritos three times a week, until I came to Europe and couldn't find any.
In the five years from 2007 to 2012, we only gained a little over 1,200 farmers. Since we aren't going to stop eating, we have to reverse that trend, or we'll see even more consolidation, more corporate farms, or increasing food imports; none of that is in our interest.
The problem with living in a fast-food nation is that we expect food to be cheap.
Always look for the best ingredients, treat the food you cook with respect, always read the entire recipe first, be organized, and have fun.
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.
'Blue Plate Special' is the autobiography of my first half-century of life, with food as the subject.
I feel if I'm healthy and happy, I look good. With a good mixture of fitness and healthy food I always feel great!
I didn't grow up vegan or vegetarian. I grew up with junk food! And because of the way I ate before changing my diet, I can truly understand the challenges of making changes and stepping away from foods that provided a form of comfort and happiness growing up, but finding out that most of what I loved was really bad for me!
The unmerited fear of genetically modified organism crops threatens scientific advancements in biotechnology needed to meet the growing global demand for safe and affordable food.
When you're a dancer who is injured, you are at the bottom of the food chain. We are so replaceable.
The natural sweetness of leeks, with their soft, oniony aroma, makes them the perfect winter comfort 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.
No family should have to depend on the labor of its children to put food on the table and no person should be forced to work in captivity.
Success is like food caught in your teeth: much more noticeable when it happens to other people. If it happens to you, other people have to take you aside and say something.
I think Bhutanese food - long dissed by every food writer out there - has gotten a bum rap.
I like me food. I also don't like me exercising. It's something me don't do very well. But it's something I've got to get into.
To me, what I'm interested in, in the end, is the meaning of food in our lives.
I look at fitness as a necessity in the same way as how you drink water, eat food, one should look at fitness in a dedicated way. People will look fresh and happy. If you are happy, you in a way look fit.
Ordering food has not changed for 30 or 40 years.
I grew up in Greeley, Colorado, in a house without a television set. I was a very nerdy kid: I used to play 'astronaut' and eat bouillon as astronaut food. We also had tons of books.
English food writer Elizabeth David, cook and author Richard Olney and the owner of Domaine Tempier Lulu Peyraud have all really inspired the way I think about food.
It's so funny because my mom is Thai and my dad is this big American guy - and our food tastes were so similar growing up. He was meat and potatoes, I was meat and potatoes.
Global trade has advantages. For starters, it allows those of us who live through winter to eat fresh produce year-round. And it provides economic benefits to farmers who grow that food.
If you go to the supermarket and buy a package of food and look at the photo on the front, the food never looks like that inside, does it? That is a fundamental lie we are sold every day.
I don't like posh hotels. I like small, eclectic hotels, and luxury for me would mean really good company with good food in a really funky, beautiful house in the middle of a field where someone came and serviced the place for us.
I like being able to go to a local pub and have great food and particularly love pubs that welcome my dogs.
It comes down to balance when consuming food - I'll eat burgers, pizza, candy, and then I'll balance it out with fruit, salad, fish... and of course I work out.
I don't like salads: I like the strong food.
While weight loss is important, what's more important is the quality of food you put in your body - food is information that quickly changes your metabolism and genes.
I love everything about Philadelphia, and its food is like the city itself: real-deal, hearty, and without pretension. We've always had an underdog vibe as a city, but that just makes us try harder, and I love our scrappiness and scruffiness.
I felt that what you should do is really take the best from each party's agenda and come to a solution somewhere above the positions of each party. So from the Left, take the idea that we need day care and food supplements for people on welfare. From the Right, take the idea that they have to work for a living and that there are time limits.
If we can afford food stamps and housing subsidies, why not gun stamps to help urban citizens survive the next Islamist assault?
I'm really into food; it's one of my favourite things - everything from potato waffles to lobster.
I am still not a fussy eater, although I do enjoy good food.
