Food Connection Quotes

My idea of good living is not about eating high on the hog. Rather, to me, good living means understanding how food connects us to the earth.

When I grew up in Italy in the 1950s, it was still very agricultural. Food was very important; produce was very important. Everyone made their own olive oil. It took me a long time after I moved here to understand that Americans are much further away from their food.

The sharing of food is the basis of social life, and to many people it is the only kind of social life worth participating in.

Understanding where your food comes from, trying to bolster local farmers and local economies and having a better connection to the food around you and the people around you, only good can come of that. I love to be involved with things like that.

In a strange city, I connect through food and fantasy.

I know once people get connected to real food, they never change back.

I hope to use food as a way to connect with people.

Food not only connects us at the idyllic dinner table setting with family and friends: it is also part of our mundane, daily transit to and from work.

Intellectually, human beings and animals may be different, but it's pretty obvious that animals have a rich emotional life and that they feel joy and pain. It's easy to forget the connection between a hamburger and the cow it came from. But I forced myself to acknowledge the fact that every time I ate a hamburger, a cow had ceased to breathe

Having spent many years working in New York's Chinatown restaurants early in my career, I have the utmost respect for the history and connection New Yorkers have with Chinese cuisine.

I made the connection between food and weight, but feeling good or bad was a separate issue.

My grandmother was the genesis of my connection and passion to food.

I'm simple in my approach and straightforward. I connect with the average person that is interested in food.

I'm nutty for nutrition. I've become one of those people who can't stop talking about the connection between food and health. Now that I know how much changing what you eat can transform your life, I can't stop proselytizing.

The reality is that we connect through food, and we have the opportunity to do it three times a day.

By cooking with your kids, you can help them understand that food is a powerful tool in connecting human beings.

I'm going to work on food culture and help food become fun and part of peoples' lives again. The traditional restaurant is more commercial-oriented. But I want community through food.

A lot of equipment can get in the way of the connection with food, with touching and feeling.

Food is so heavily connected to memory.

Change is a pesky notion. For many folks, the biggest challenge in changing their eating habits isn't money, time, or education; it's reframing their connection between food and love.

Another thing cooking is, or can be, is a way to honor the things we're eating, the animals and plants and fungi that have been sacrificed to gratify our needs and desires, as well as the places and the people that produced them. Cooks have their ways of saying grace too... Cooking something thoughtfully is a way to celebrate both that species and our relation to it.