Food Knowledge Quotes

I don't want to sound too mystical or weird but it's important to know what garlic smells like when it's cooking, or what eggs look like when they're cracked out of a shell.

My philosophy from day one is that I can sleep better at night if I can improve an individual's knowledge about food and wine, and do it on a daily basis.

You don't need to know what an antioxidant is to eat well.

I think it's important for children to know where their food comes from and how much work it takes to produce the items we eat in our home.

Imagine a world where children were fed tasty and nutritious, real food at school from the age of 4 to 18. A world where every child was educated about how amazing food is, where it comes from, how it affects the body and how it can save their lives.

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.

Goodness, how much there is to learn about food!

I sold steaks over the phone in Omaha, Nebraska. Marbling, fantastic. That's what makes a great steak; a lot of people don't know.

Know you food, know your farmers, and know your kitchen.

It should be that every child, when they leave school, can do ten meals, because when they leave home, they've got to be able to eat healthily. Blow the science of it and everything else. They've just got to be able to know what's good for them, how to buy it, and how to make a few dishes that they enjoy and don't cost too much.

A farmer friend of mine told me recently about a busload of middle school children who came to his farm for a tour. The first two boys off the bus asked, "Where is the salsa tree?" They thought they could go pick salsa, like apples and peaches. Oh my. What do they put on SAT tests to measure this? Does anybody care? How little can a person know about food and still make educated decisions about it? Is this knowledge going to change before they enter the voting booth? Now that's a scary thought.

I think it's one of the most important battles for consumers to fight: the right to know what's in their food, and how it was grown.

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

When a mother goes to the store and purchases food for her child, she has the right to know what she is feeding her family.

I've always believed consumers have a right to know what's in their food.

I learned how to cook, began reading books on food. I began to understand about nutrition. It never had occurred to me that what you ate could affect how you felt. It could affect your health. It seems obvious now, but at age 23 or 22 or whatever I was, it wasn't obvious at all.

I think the most wonderful thing in the world is another chef. I'm always excited about learning new things about food.

I learned to cook because I want to know about the food and the ingredients going into my family's bodies.

You've got to know what you put in your body. That's it.

The reason I started officially learning to cook was because when I first got pregnant, I had to face the sad fact that I didn't even know how to boil an egg.

Too few people understand a really good sandwich.

People have a right to know what is in the food they are eating, and that the food is safe.

I have been collecting recipes and information for over 20 years, but three years ago, my editor said to me, 'You're a walking encyclopedia of food, so why don't you do an encyclopedia?'

Ultimately, I realized that in order to write about food you need to understand everything about cooking, so I moved to New York and enrolled in the Institute of Culinary Education.

Know you food, know your farmers, and know your kitchen. Start building up your larder! We don't even use that term any more.