Al Roker Quotes

I love food: biscuits and gravy, cheese grits, spaghetti and meatballs, chicken-fried steak with white gravy... but my favorite dish is my wife's beanie weenie cornbread casserole. It's so good. It sounds stupid, but if you eat it, it's heaven. Of course, it's only something you can eat if you've got a lot of money.

At home, my food is just sort of comfort food. It's not super fancy, but it's certainly tasty.

The smells of slow cooking spread around the house and impart a unique warmth matched only by the flavour of the food.

When you have that deep kind of hunger that is part longing, what's better to eat than the best apple pie? Or the best potato salad and guacamole? Or the best deviled eggs and crab cakes and white chocolate raspberry pie?

Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.

All food is comfort food. Maybe I just like to chew.

Food from Quebec is not known to be amazing. Actually, even though you can eat really, really well in Montreal, it's crazy. It's one of the best cities I eat in, but typical Quebec food is like food from people that work in the woods. It's potatoes, meat and sauce.

Food can be mean to me, but I love it anyway.

The food I've liked in my time is American country cookin'.

Steak and its accompaniments - wine, vegetables, potatoes and generous desserts - is a primal source of pleasure to which many people can relate.

For me, the food I like to make is the food I can enjoy all the time anytime. It's not too calculated or technical.

Love food and I love to eat.

I love to cook comfort food. I'll make fish and vegetables or meat and vegetables and potatoes or rice. The ritual of it is fun for me, and the creativity of it.

My cooking style is simple, healthy, and very basic.

Good food is good food. It doesn't have to come with pretense.

When I feel like the day is great? Pasta. When I feel like I want the day to be great? Pasta. It's just awesome.

I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.

Food is a huge source of comfort for me.

I like simple home-cooked food.

I eat very simple food, really. A lot of it tending towards nursery food.

I go on 'Sunday Brunch' and Simon Rimmer's mashed potato is like heaven.

My mom's cooking was all about comfort, flavor, and plenty of butter. It was so hearty.

There's a couple of foods that if you see me eat them in a contest, you can tell I like them. Grilled cheese sandwiches, chicken wings, ribs, hot dogs, hamburgers, pizza. I mean, those, they go down like I was made to eat them.

Food is a passion for me, especially Italian cuisine. I prefer to have somebody cook for me, but I can do some very nice pasta dishes.

By definition, comfort foods are rich and creamy or evocative of childhood pleasures.