Tamsin Egerton Quotes

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.

In America, you look at food as bad and guilty. In France, we love food and we enjoy food; food is pleasure.

I believe that 'Food is a giver.' It gives you nutrition, health, and at times can give you recognition, like it did in my case, and you got to treat it with that kind of respect.

Twenty-first-century food is going to be real food. Real food is food that is truly nourishing for the consumer, the community, and the planet.

The business of feeding people is the most amazing business in the world.

I'm pretty pro-food.

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

I have an amazing relationship with food.

What I've learned is I want to enjoy my life, and food is a big part of it.

I'm fascinated by food. Food is love, isn't it?

For me, I love food. It's my greatest pleasure and also the thing that could ruin you as well. It's one of those things where, if you're not thoughtful about it, it could be unhealthy. But if there's a mindfulness about it; it actually is a wonderful tool of emotional expression.

Food is a passion. Food is love.

Food isn't like anything else. It's something precious. It's not a commodity.

It is important that we relish the food we eat. If we cannot do this, but eat mechanically, our food does not do us that good it should, and we fail to be nourished and built up by it as we otherwise would be, if we could enjoy the food we take into the stomach.

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

I am a foodie and do not suppress the needs of my body.

Food may be essential as fuel for the body, but good food is fuel for the soul.

I don't cook. I respect food too much.

I believe eating is a form of medicine, a reasoned way of giving your body and mind what it needs.

Everybody has their role in the food world and what they choose to appreciate. I'm not a fine dining chef. I appreciate it. I think Thomas Keller is amazing. But I really like where I'm at; I like what I do. I like how it makes people feel.

We know there is a deep reservoir of food wisdom out there, or else humans would not have survived to the extent we have. Much of this food wisdom is worth preserving and reviving and heeding.

Food is a common denominator for all people.

I don't diet. I'm Puerto Rican! You can never take my rice, pork, and beans away.

I don't think I've ever missed a meal.

I enjoy a good meal as much as anyone, but I get so confused by nutritional, budgetary, ecological, ethical, aesthetic, and time-management concerns that I often subsist for weeks on instant oatmeal and multivitamins.