Lesley Manville Quotes

I was too thin. I was working all the time, not eating at home. Spaghetti bolognese on planes. Ugh. Now most of my meals I cook for myself with organic ingredients.

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

You should just feel comfortable with food and your own culinary culture, whatever your mother and grandmother know.

We all need to start making some changes to how our families eat. Now, everyone loves a good Sunday dinner. Me included. And there's nothing wrong with that. The problem is when we eat Sunday dinner Monday through Saturday.

Do not allow watching food to replace making food.

I'm a simple hillbilly. I don't like eating modern, industrialized, fast food. I grew up eating home-cooked food. So when I'm traveling abroad, like when I recently received a six-month writing fellowship to Iowa in the U.S., I like to cook my own food.

That's one of the things my family miss most when I'm travelling - my Sunday roasts and my Japanese meals.

I don't eat fast food, but I can't live without pizza.

I eat only simple Indian home food - sabzi, roti, dal, chawal, ghee. There are so many benefits of having ghee. My grandmother is 84 and she is still fit and looks beautiful.

Get people back into the kitchen and combat the trend toward processed food and fast food.

Macaroni and cheese was my mother's special dish. She'd also make jambalaya and dirty rice and bake a ham that would be incredible. And greens. But if you were looking for vegetables and healthy things, there weren't a lot of those.

You don't want to eat haute cuisine all the time; it's not healthy.

Mum's cooking is still the best thing. It's very healthy.

My grandmother used to cook for eight every day - sitting down lunches and dinner, the way you do it in Italy, you sit down. And when my parents could afford their own place, I went with them but still my mother used to work but used to come back from work to cook lunch for my father, come back from work, cook dinner for my father and me.

I can get whatever I want to eat and when you, you know, you forget to eat you sometimes pick up fast food.

At home I serve the kind of food I know the story behind.

America is a country of abundance, but our food culture is sad - based on huge portions and fast food. Let's stop with the excuses and start creating something better.

I love home cooking, and I'm not a great one for fast food.

My mom fed us a lot of processed food when we were kids, like chicken fingers, grilled cheese sandwiches and quesadillas. I make those treats for my family, too, but I use organic cheeses and whole wheat bread and tortillas.

There was a period in my life when I was eating ramen non-stop. These days, less so. Once you have a kid, you end up eating a lot of foods with broccoli in them.

Food is important to me, but I wouldn't say that I'm a gourmet. I don't like tricksy food.

I am a foodie, but I prefer to be at home and enjoy home-cooked food.

I am very picky about my food, and I'm very healthy-oriented, so I always try to cook.

There's just so much love that goes into home cooking, and I think it will really help the American family overall. I'm hoping to maybe get a cookbook out one day because I've got some great family recipes.

I eat well. I don't really, I guess, like, steam my own food and cook my own food in advance. I enjoy food, but I just don't make bad decisions.