Alexandra Kleeman Quotes

Attitudes toward food have completely changed.

I am fascinated by how people eat and what it reveals about them.

By and large, we're a bread-eating culture. People like sandwiches. We don't really over-think that one.

Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.

I eat mostly vegetables and meat.

There are no bad foods, only bad food habits.

People who grow up in a region doubtless have a better cultural awareness of their own cuisine, but it's also true that a lot of locals go to McDonald's, Applebee's and the like.

More than any other in Western Europe, Britain remains a country where a traveler has to think twice before indulging in the ordinary food of ordinary people.

I've slowly gone back, later on in life, to fish and then chicken and then, last year, red meat.

I don't have much patience for people who are self-conscious about the act of eating, and it irritates me when someone denies themselves the pleasure of a bloody hunk of steak or a pungent French cheese because of some outdated nonsense about what's appropriate or attractive.

The dialogue and conversation about food is everywhere - television, chat rooms, social media outlets and among everyday conversations.

I also like to eat very much, so I like all different types of foods.

People have their cultural reasons for eating meat, their traditional reasons, their likes and dislikes.

Food is not just what we put in our mouths to fill up; it is culture and identity. Reason plays some role in our decisions about food, but it's rarely driving the car.

Restaurants stress the protein. People read menu items left to right, with the protein first. I read descriptions right to left.

We've become such a restaurant society.

Here's a thought: what if we ban the word 'healthy food' from our culinary vocabulary? I'm not talking about banning foods that are considered healthy. I'm talking about changing the way we think about food overall.

My relationship with food is intimate. I don't eat and tell.

I don't think that eating bones is necessarily gruesome unless you're a vegetarian.

It's hard to come into a new relationship with food unless you're engaged in an interactive way at an early age; it's hard to change your values.

I don’t do carrots.

People don't eat in the long run. They eat every day.

You have to diet before you even go to shoot in Chicago because we just eat the entire time.

I'm not fussy about my food.

I'm not a big fan of food, but when I do eat, I like to eat.