Anthony Bourdain Quotes

It's weird how America works. Healthy food costs way more than crap.

Eating well is a class issue.

The entire trendy foodie world - food writing, food television, celebrated restaurants - is all about food for the rich. But the most important food issue is how to feed the poor or the hardworking middle class.

One of the richest countries in the history of the world having communities where people have to go over half an hour to get to fresh produce and food is unacceptable.

I grew up with this kind of grocery store that caters to the poor. They serve you the worst food.

There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class.

I'm a working-class person, working with class.

We take food for granted, but it isn't a luxury for many people.

The lack of access to proper nutrition is not only fueling obesity, it is leading to food insecurity and hunger among our children.

I come from a very working-class background.

That which in England we call the middle class is in America virtually the nation.

Even if we could produce enough food globally to feed everyone satisfactorily, the continued steady rise in the cost of inputs will mean increasing numbers will not be able to afford the food we produce. This is a key point that is often missed.

Food insecurity is not remotely the same as hunger.

I care a lot about big food and everyone's right to healthy, nutritious food and what's caused obesity in America and obesity in children in America.

When I was at school, you could tell the demography of children by how thin they were. You could see by looking at their eyes.

I didn't eat at many restaurants when I was younger. There wasn't much in South Central anyways, except for fast food joints.

There is no typical day, not when there are so many people out there that I care about that can't access good food in their neighborhoods.

Food poverty comes in two strands. The first is not having enough money to buy food for yourself and your family. The second is poverty of education.

We have been growing more food than we need since the '60s... what we have is a terrible distribution problem.

All kids should be able to have healthy food to eat and should not have to worry about when their next meal will be.

Sadly, many people in our biggest cities are at the mercy of industrial food.

My dad was working class.

If people were able to afford to eat nutritious food, I think they would make better choices.

A lot of the things that we think of as being racial differences are really class differences in America.

Not everyone can afford to eat well in America, which is a literal shame, but most of us can: Americans spend less than 10 percent of their income on food, less than the citizens of any other nation.