Jamie Oliver Quotes

Community through food is my mission; it is what I do.

Even today with the public's growing interest in food and diet issues, politicians rarely include food as part of their political platforms.

Of course, with well-masticated food playing the role of social glue, it's absolutely essential that everyone clear their plate. Sod the starving kiddies in Africa - it's the overfed ones here we need to worry about.

I love to talk about cooking and recipes, but I love as much talking about how food and cooking can change the world.

Marcus Samuelsson is a chef who inspires me everyday. He has such a deep understanding of flavors and techniques. His food is representative of the diverse world that we live in. What he has done in Harlem with Red Rooster is very special. Marcus is not just a chef, he's a food activist.

I'm engaged in food on so many levels, and I love that. So my work, my craft, is around food, and writing is one aspect of it; communicating a narrative, cooking online is one aspect of it; solving the food chasm that we have in Harlem and finding a farmers market is another one, and all of them are equally exciting for me.

Food has become such an interesting issue in the nation and the world.

How can you satisfy your hunger while your neighbor is spending the night hungry?

If you eat, you should be concerned about the people who are providing you with food.

There's never been a culture that wasn't obsessed with food. The sort of sad thing is that our obsession is no longer with food, but with the price of food.

In countries around the world, people spend more money on food because they know how precious it is.

There is no typical day, not when there are so many people out there that I care about that can't access good food in their neighborhoods.

There's not a single chef I know of that does not think about the politics of the food they're serving.

Food is national security. Food is craft. Food is everything, when you think about it.

A few years ago, kids from poor areas in France were asked to draw items of food. For a chicken, they drew a drumstick. For a fish, they drew a fish stick. Those are extremes, but there is a lot that needs to be done to help children discover good food.

People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue.

A country like America has twice as much food on its shop shelves and in its restaurants than is actually required to feed the American people.

In 2010, I created World Central Kitchen as a way to try and help find solutions to many of the food issues we face.

When we are trying to come up with new health laws, you bring doctors, you bring experts in medicine. In urban planning, you bring the best architects. How it is possible that when we are talking about the way we are going to feed America, no chef shows up in the room?

To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.

Being Italian, I have a very special relationship with the culinary arts. One my projects was to share Italian cultural food with my colleagues.

I wish that the world's food was spread evenly on everybody's plate, and that no-one got more or less than anyone else.

The same ten dollars you spend on lunch is all it costs for City Harvest to feed 37 kids who are hungry. That's pretty astounding.

We must make organic and farm-raised costs more affordable. We need to come to a level where people who don't have a lot of money can afford it. If we could eat just fresh foods, it would be wonderful.

To feed a nation is never easy!