Steven Patrick Morrissey Quotes

A bad or mediocre meal is more than just an unpleasant taste, it is an unnecessary negation of one of life's pleasures - a wasted chance to refine our palates, learn about the world, and share a rewarding experience.

If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.

Too many people just eat to consume calories. Try dining for a change.

I've had the privilege of having a lot of amazing people cook for me.

Having curry for breakfast is a thing of beauty.

The Italians and Spanish, the Chinese and Vietnamese see food as part of a larger, more essential and pleasurable part of daily life. Not as an experience to be collected or bragged about - or as a ritual like filling up a car - but as something else that gives pleasure, like sex or music, or a good nap in the afternoon.

I really love good food occasionally, but I need time to enjoy it, and I need to be hungry.

You know the great irony is that people think you have to have money to enjoy fine food, which is a shame.

Eating is one of the great beauties in life. One of my favorite recreations... eating with friends, the service, the ambience.

I have a generally optimistic temperament and am thrilled by what I see as a rapidly growing food movement, especially among young people who care about how food is produced and what it does to their health and the environment.

I had decided I wanted to write about food, and I knew the only way to do that is to speak with authority, which meant learning the language and knowing what that experience is like.

Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat.

You can have intense food experience with less food. Europeans have intense food experiences but eat less food.

The most I like about cooking is eating what someone else has cooked.

I remember the first time eating my chef's Caesar salad. It was just like one of those moments in the movie theater when everything gets quiet.

I hope people will learn more about agriculture in America. About locally grown farming and about water conservation. About how much pollution results from beef and pig farming.

I'm only happy when people are eating.

I had one of the best nights of my life in a restaurant called Barclay Prime. It was a steak house that mixed modern with tradition.

After many days of grocery store food, sitting down for a deliberate, slow, expensive eating time can be the best.

The podcast most likely to encourage you to fully appreciate your food is the episode of BBC World Service's 'The Food Chain' in which Antonio Carluccio talks to Emily Thomas about his life in five dishes.

I'm really interested in food now. I never used to be. I always used to just eat when I'm hungry, and now it's an experience.

I consider a perfect hot dog on the street to be as valid a food experience as dinner at Blue Hill at Stone Barns.

I think it's important for children to know where their food comes from and how much work it takes to produce the items we eat in our home.

I actually live to eat.

Dining should be a delightful and a beautiful experience.