John Cooper Clarke Quotes

Beans are a real go-to for me.

One food I've tried and I haven't grown at all to like - foie gras, I don't like it. I just don't. I've tried it several different ways, and I think it's a texture thing for me.

I love quinoa. It's great, it cooks like rice and is better than caviar.

I went into raw vegan for a while, but I prefer cooked food, the way it smells, the way it feels going through your system.

I mostly eat plant-based, so give me an avocado or something, even late at night, and I'll be happy.

All of the plants that we do not consider food that are safe for the human body to digest, we don't eat because they're sour and bitter. The reason why you don't eat Kentucky bluegrass or crabgrass is because it tastes sour and bitter.

For whatever reason, I enjoy eating soggy cereal.

I believe the future is vegetables and fruits. They are so much more sexier than a piece of chicken.

It's all about salsa with grain chips, tofu, turkey slices, hummus, and coconut water.

I'm a terrible sort of non-fussy eater, really. I don't like posh food very much, and the more ingredients something's got in it, the less I tend to like it.

I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.

I was one of those kids who found it difficult to eat anything that looked like an animal.

I like beans. Lentils are beans, right? I love beans and rice.

I can't eat beans - all beans. I think because I'm half Cuban. So growing up, we were always eating black beans and rice, and I think I just said, 'Enough with it,' and I can't even stand to taste it anymore.

I've done a lot of kale as well as broccoli. I love it. Asparagus I couldn't stand before, but now it is part of my meals. All three of those are greens that I never used to eat. Now, a smoothie for me is nothing but fruits and veggies and vanilla Greek yogurt.

I can eat beef, provided it's minced in disguise. I couldn't eat a gammon steak. Forget it.

I think the patterns are set very early when the kids are young. But at the same time, there are some flavors kids just don't like.

I'm a big fruit-and-vegetable kind of guy.

Before I turned vegetarian, I used to often cook seafood or my favourite breakfast of eggs and bacon. Now, I love making pulao or rice with lots of spices and vegetables.

It's amazing how meaty cauliflower can be.

I cannot get enough farro.

Italian food is my favorite food. It's the most sophisticated eating system.

I love using hummus as centerpiece and then making different containers of vegetables for fun dipping.

I love portobello mushrooms. I often say that if I were vegetarian, I would live off of these. Now, it would never happen, but it's still nice to know that they exist. So meaty, so flavorful.

I try to stick to the natural peanut butter, and I have several jars in the cupboard. I'll put it on oatmeal, rice cakes, chocolate... I just love it.