Sophie Dahl Quotes

Normally I don't care so much about food. I'm more interested in the people I'm with.

Literally, I just love food and I like going to dinner with big groups of people so you can try everything.

When I'm in L.A., I have salads, sandwiches, and soups all the time. Eating in New York, I feel like I have to have pizza and bagels while I'm here!

I do quite like rice and beans weirdly, I don't know how or why. For me I always eat my beans first one by one and then savour the rice because it is bloody fantastic.

I love seeing what people are eating. It's a great way of looking at what is similar and what is different about people. It's sociology and anthropology and history rolled into one.

As I famously said before, I don't like to waste meals. I'm no one's food snob.

We can only love a person who eats what we eat.

The older I get, the more interested in good meals I am.

If you're at a restaurant and someone asks, 'Fresh pepper?,' the answer is yes. When people shake off the fresh pepper, they clearly have no interest in living a full life. Same thing goes for grated Parmesan. Why would you turn that down?

We're social beings, and food is one of the things we can use three times a day to connect with family or with friends.

I don't eat at home, ever.

Food is kind of the conduit that brings people together.

I always eat bread and almost always peanut butter and apple syrup, sometimes cheese. I hardly ever ate out as a child. When I did it more as a student, it felt strange to be served.

I had to train myself to like spicy foods as I got older because they weren't a part of my upbringing at all.

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.

Eating among the French certainly affected me. After a few years here, I gave up most of my selective food habits.

I think that lunch is one of the most enjoyable and important things in the day. But you need to create the space and the time to do just that. And in Italy, we do that.

I go to Michelin-starred restaurants as part of my job, but that's not how I want to eat all the time.

Food not only connects us at the idyllic dinner table setting with family and friends: it is also part of our mundane, daily transit to and from work.

I just like to eat, buy food, eat food. Eating is my hobby.

I love breakfast. Well, I just like food. I'm properly into my food. It comes from my father. If we go anywhere, we like to look up the best restaurants.

There are some things I like that Hef likes, too. For example, Colonel Sanders' chicken is a standby. I've never been able to figure out how to recreate the combination of herbs they use to flavor the crust.

Having lived in America and France, I've been on both sides of the picky-eating divide.

I order food like a normal human being. If I'm out to lunch, I'm going to order three courses like everybody else. I'm not going to feel like some kind of freak.

I like to eat other people's food in restaurants.