Padma Lakshmi Quotes

You know, I used to think I was a foodie, and then my wife went to culinary school and basically explained to me that I was just a guy that likes to eat.

I don't consider myself a food person. I'm no Bobby Flay. I'm no Emeril or Paula Deen, and I'm certainly not Rachael Ray.

I remember the first time I heard a co-worker refer to himself as a foodie. It immediately irritated me. Was he implying that he appreciated food more than other people? That his love of eating was somehow more evolved than mine? Don't all people love the thing we can't live without?

I had this stereotypical view that black people apart from me probably threw stones and lived in huts.

I love fashion, and that's how I express myself.

I love good food. I'm an epicurean, that's for sure... But I am not really a good cook.

I went to school for culinary arts. I love to cook. That's a talent not a lot of people know about.

You're not stupid because you're interested in fashion, period.

I always think of my grandfather as the original foodie. He was the slowest eater. He savored everything. Even when everyone was gone from the table, he was still eating.

I had a prejudice against the British until I discovered that fifty percent of them were female.

'Savage' describes a cultural condition, not a degree of intelligence.

I do feel that, generally, people will see me and go, "He knows where the good food is," which is an awesome correlative. It's an awesome simplification.

No one can believe I might have a brain. Because I'm really tall, I'm really blonde, I have big muscles, and kill people for a living. There you go. If anybody's going to be assumed to be stupid, it's me. I don't know what my IQ score is, but I did study for five years at college. And I'm proud of my chemical engineering degree. I haven't done anything with it, but it's a card up your sleeve for later in life. It's nice to have, just in case.

The pervasive idea is that if you're a man in the fashion industry, you're gay until proven otherwise. And of course there are lots of men who aren't. But people make certain assumptions.

New Rule: If you still think Obama is a Muslim, you just might be a redneck. A Christian church in South Carolina has a sign out front that says 'Obama... Osama... Hmmm... Are they brothers?' No, they're not brothers. In fact, they're not even related, which is more than I can say for the married couples in your church.

After I decided to become a Jew, only then did I learn that the Jews don't have all the money. When I found out Rockefeller and Ford were goyim, I almost resigned.

This (Paris,France) wouldn't be a bad place, but it's full of Frenchmen.

The very nature of the Chinaman holds him back. If his fellow should fall, John thinks it quite proper that he stamp on the underdogs face.

Some people think because I wear makeup that I am gay. But one thing has nothing to do with the other.

You don’t spring into good cooking naked. You have to have some training. You have to learn how to eat.

The art of cooking is among the most intimate things that we can do for another.

Assume nothing. Inside every dumb blond there may be a very smart brunette.

We white people think that we know everything.

I'm not some anti-technology person. I think it's often how people would assume that if they don't know me.

Prejudices subsist in people's imagination long after they have been destroyed by their experience.