Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

Food ... is the topmost taper on the golden candelabrum of existence.

Food is a big part of my life.

The podcast most likely to encourage you to fully appreciate your food is the episode of BBC World Service's 'The Food Chain' in which Antonio Carluccio talks to Emily Thomas about his life in five dishes.

I think I wrote my first piece about food in 1978.

Life is the most important. Always.

People ask me: "Why do you write about food, and eating, and drinking? Why don't you write about the struggle for power and security, and about love, the way the others do?" . . . The easiest answer is to say that, like most other humans, I am hungry.

there are many ways of eating, for some eating is living for some eating is dying, for some thinking about ways of eating gives to them the feeling that they have it in them to be alive and to be going on living, to some to think about eating makes them know that death is always waiting that dying is in them.

You're too important to just... die.

If there is anything we are serious about, it is neither religion nor learning, but food.

Food is one of the great organizing tools.

Food is a profound subject and one, incidentally, about which no writer lies.

I like eating. I like food.

I've spent a great deal of my life one way or another talking about food or eating food.

The service of food is to nurture, to please, to nourish.

Food has always been at the frontier of creativity.

We all have incredible relationships to what we eat, to what we don't eat, to what we've eaten since childhood and what we were fed, to what food means to us. And so I find it a really powerful tool in storytelling and in opening people's hearts and their minds.

I have a lot of different passions. Food has been a constant through my whole life; it's something I've always had a very intrinsic passion toward and for, and I continue to learn about it, and I'm not going to let any type of negative comments dissuade me from wanting to pursue that, because I love it.

Food is the common language for all of us.

Life means a lot to me.

I'm definitely a foodie.

We eat to live.

Food is culture. Food is an identity, a footprint of who you are.

Age is irrelevant.

You bring people together with food. You connect them and tie the fabric of society together through food.

I grew up in Lucknow, which is famous for its street food and kebabs. It was the street food and Lucknowi kebabs that inspired me. The culture of the varieties of food that I tasted as a child inspired me to be a cook.