Suzy Amis Quotes

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

In America, we are engaged in constant battle with food.

I just hope Americans come to understand that food isn't something to be manipulated by our teeth and shoved down our gullet, that it's our spiritual and physical nourishment and important to our well-being as a nation.

I think food is very important to how we live as people and as families.

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

Yeah, well, food is always a part of everything.

I have an amazing relationship with food.

I will eat disgusting things, but only those with long established culinary traditions.

There's all kind of things going on in the world that I don't like but I can't change. But at least I can say, 'Change the way you eat!'

I think I was immediately fed, so food became a very important part of my life.

I do a lot of reading about food and the food industry, so I try to eat locally and go to the farmer's market.

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

Talking about food is like talking about your dreams. Everyone has something to say. We all have to eat, it's just what we eat which differs. Some people eat for fuel and I feel bad for them.

Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity.

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.

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

When I travel, there are no rules with my diet. I eat whatever looks good, but in small portions. Food is such a rich part of the travel experience. There is no way I would cut that out!

Attitudes toward food have completely changed.

What a character eats is a detail - like eye color or a favorite song. But food is also our lifeblood.

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

I think America's food culture is embedded in fast-food culture. And the real question that we have is: How are we going to teach slow-food values in a fast-food world? Of course, it's very, very difficult to do, especially when children have grown up eating fast food and the values that go with that.

I feel it is an obligation to help people understand the relation of food to agriculture and the relationship of food to culture.

I'm not a dieter. I have the palate of a 7-year-old boy, although I'm working on it. I order off the kids' menu! I'm working hard to eat more fruit and veggies and round it all out, but I'm a big pretzels and Diet Coke kind of girl.

All the foods that you regularly eat are ones that you learned to eat. Everyone starts life drinking milk. After that, it's all up for grabs. From our first year of life, human tastes are astonishingly diverse.

Food choices are something fundamental you can control about yourself: what you take into your body. When so many other things are out of control and your influence over climate change - all these much larger issues - it's very hard to see any results or any progress. But everybody can see progress around food.