Lord Byron Quotes

To eat steak rare... represents both a nature and a morality.

In the Netherlands - where I come from - you actually never see a pig, which is really strange, because, in a population of 16 million people, we have 12 million pigs. And well, of course, the Dutch can't eat all these pigs. They eat about one-third, and the rest is exported to all kinds of countries in Europe and the rest of the world.

New Mexico's agricultural economy is primarily composed of dairy and range livestock production.

We all buy our meat wrapped in plastic because we don't like to think about the animal that died.

Meat has become a passion for me.

Respecting the dignity of a spectacular food means enjoying it at its best. Europeans celebrate the short season of abundant asparagus as a form of holiday. In the Netherlands the first cutting coincides with Father's Day, on which restaurants may feature all-asparagus menus and hand out neckties decorated with asparagus spears.

I know vegetarians don't like to hear this, but God made an awful lot of land that's good for nothing but grazing.

A slab of bread "buttered" with lard and, if you were lucky, seasoned with salt and pepper, was a luxury.

The sharing of food is the basis of social life, and to many people it is the only kind of social life worth participating in.

It seems hopeless, hopeless. Those who eat meat [at public expense] are a mean, selfish lot, and so the country is doomed. Our only hope lies in the grass-roots folk who eat our traditional food.

A cow is a very good animal in the field; but we turn her out of a garden.

It is not part of religion to breed buffaloes or, for that matter, cows.

Dear Lord, I've been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us... a turkey which was no doubt a lively, intelligent bird... a social being... capable of actual affection... nuzzling its young with almost human- like compassion. Anyway, it's dead and we're gonna eat it. Please give our respects to its family.

The longer I've looked at these questions, of the American diet and the public health crisis that we face because of that diet, the more I've come to the conclusion that the collapse of cooking is a big part of the problem.

I actually saw a kid and went home and drew him. I don't even know who he was. I was buying a TV set in Circuit City. I was looking at this kid and he was kind of standing there, staring off into space. Kids are pretty chubby nowadays because of all the fast-food places. I grew up eating fast food but now everything is double beef and double cheese. So there are a lot of these chubby boys with long, baggy shorts.

Culture, when it comes to food, is of course a fancy word for your mom.

Oh, when I was a kid in show business I was poor. I used to go to orgies to eat the grapes.

I had a very sparse comic upbringing - not because I was being whipped into reading Chekhov and Dickens, but I read Asterix on holidays when I was a kid, and Tin Tin was featured, I remember, for a few years.

I'm Indian-American and I think that when I think of myself as being culturally Indian, it had so much to do with when I lived with my parents and was a kid because they would take me to the Diwali festivals. They would take me to the temple, and they would teach me about all the different holidays.

Eating meat is primitive, barbaric, and arrogant.

Cooking is one of the oldest arts and one which has rendered us the most important service in civic life.

It's fascinating to travel around Italy and realize just how many different ways they make spaghetti.

If 6,000,000 cattle had been slaughtered, there would have been more interest. A way would have been found.

Holidays are also an opportunity for kids to unlearn every good habit they've learned during the rest of the year. They don't go to school. They get to stay up past their bedtime. They get candy and presents for doing nothing. Childhood utopia.

Food culture in the United States has long been cast as the property of a privileged class. It is nothing of the kind. Culture is the property of a species.