Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes

I love to sit and eat quietly and enjoy each bite, aware of the presence of my community, aware of all the hard and loving work that has gone into my food.

Too many people just eat to consume calories. Try dining for a change.

I've had the privilege of having a lot of amazing people cook for me.

Because only slow food can teach us the things that really matter - care, beauty, concentration, discernment, sensuality, all the best that humans are capable of, but only if we take the time to think about what we're eating.

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.

If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.

To eat in the same room where food is cooked - that is the way to thank the Lord for His abundance.

Part of life and part of the enjoyment of life is a croissant and a chocolate cake and eggs and milkshakes and oatmeal. There's so many things, you have to learn to appreciate it all. When I don't eat as much as I should, I'm not fun to be around; I'm fussy.

You know the great irony is that people think you have to have money to enjoy fine food, which is a shame.

I was brought up to think a lot about food and have respect for it, both as medicine and something to eat and enjoy.

I'm from Canada, so Thanksgiving to me is just Thursday with more food. And I'm thankful for that.

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.

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

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.

Some foods you may say, 'Oh wow, this is not food.' People actually eat that somewhere. I just want people to really understand that and really appreciate it.

Starving isn't sexy. What's sexy is a healthy appreciation for food.

Food to a large extent is what holds a society together, and eating is closely linked to deep spiritual experiences.

While you fear missing a meal, you aren't fully aware of the meals you do eat.

Ecstasy carries you completely outside your ego boundaries. In ecstasy you know yourself as cosmic ego, unbounded in time and space.

Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it.

... but food eaten quickly isn't food.

A significant part of the pleasure of eating is in one’s accurate consciousness of the lives and the world from which food comes.

Spend as much time enjoying the meal as it took to prepare it

Some kids have never seen what a real tomato looks like off the vine. They don't know where a cucumber comes from. And that really affects the way they view food. So a garden helps them really get their hands dirty, literally, and understand the whole process of where their food comes from. And I wanted them to see just how challenging and rewarding it is to grow your own food, so that they would better understand what our farmers are doing every single day across this country and have an appreciation for ... that American tradition of growing our own food and feeding ourselves.

Eat with consciousness. When you eat with consciousness, and you know what you're eating, and you eat it in full appreciation of what it is, it's enormously satisfying.