I love to cook. But I have some food allergies, so I have to contend with those.
— Zooey Deschanel
When I travel, there are no rules with my diet. I eat whatever looks good, but in small portions. Food is such a rich part of the travel experience. There is no way I would cut that out!
— Zoe McLellan
I grew up with coconuts as the main flavor in food in Jamaica. It's part of our culture.
— Ziggy Marley
I used to work at Cafe Mogador in the East Village. I love Mogador, but I feel like working almost anywhere will kind of ruin it for you. There was a lot of panicking while being a waitress there. I don't like to think about that. But I love the food.
— Zazie Beetz
For me, food is all about nostalgia.
— Zawe Ashton
We're taught that food in a dumpster is waste. But when you find bags of bread that are perfectly good, all of a sudden that waste turns into bounty. That's an important shift in perception.
— Zal Batmanglij
I'm a foodie. I enjoy it a lot, and contrary to what it looks, I eat a lot. My comfort food, of all things, would be southern soul barbecue.
— Zach Johnson
I'm not a chef. But I'm passionate about food - the tradition of it, cooking it, and sharing it.
— Zac Posen
Food is everything. Food, friends, family: Those are the most important things in life.
All schools should teach children basic cooking skills. Every school should be able to buy sustainable, good quality food wherever possible from local sources. Every school should include food-growing in the curriculum. For some, that will mean twinning with willing farms. For others, it will mean literally building their own small farms.
— Zac Goldsmith
I'm from Georgia, and everybody gathers around food in the South.
— Zac Brown
I lived with my parents in Belarus, and I went to Russian kindergarten, which is where I learned Russian. Belarus had just become an independent country; there was no food in the supermarkets, so it looked very post-war, very Soviet.
— Yung Lean
If the first bite is with the eye and the second with the nose, some people will never take that third, actual bite if the food in question smells too fishy, fermented or cheesy.
— Yotam Ottolenghi
The natural sweetness of leeks, with their soft, oniony aroma, makes them the perfect winter comfort food.
The combination of lentils with rice or bulgur is the absolute height of Levantine comfort food. I could eat it every day.
Going out for a meal, especially for young urbanites, is less about socialising over enjoyable food than about enjoying food as a way to socialise.
One of the troubles with food is that people take themselves too seriously. This is why I'm very happy for people to change my recipes, alter them, replace one ingredient for another.
For a long time, I couldn't even afford food and clothing. I climbed from the very bottom of the society.
— Zong Qinghou
I'm a health-food junkie, so all of my food is a splurge, money-wise!
— Zoe Lister-Jones
If food is labeled, some people might choose to eat stuff that's genetically modified. They might decide they love it. But give us a choice.
I'm a keen experimenter in the kitchen. With food, not with anything else!
We live in a capitalist society and if we're talking about the people at the bottom of the food chain, it's women of colour.
Being nerdy just means being passionate about something, including everyone - the coolest people on Earth are passionate and therefore nerdy about something whatever it is, whether it's sports, or gaming, or technology, or fashion, or beauty, or food, or whatever.
— Zachary Levi
Whenever I'm in Des Moines, I always make a trip to Manhattan Deli for a sandwich. I spent a lot of time there when I was going to college at Drake, so it's usually my one 'go-to' food stop when I'm in town.
I'm a pretty controlled and disciplined person, but my real vice is buying plants and food shopping.
Europe believes that providing clear labelling for genetically modified food is a consumer right, but such practice is absolutely opposed by the vast majority of states in the U.S.
GM has never been about feeding the world or tackling environmental problems. It is and has always been about control of the global food economy by a tiny handful of giant corporations. It's not wicked to question that process. It is wicked not to.
If we had to pose for every single person at the Eat & Greets, we wouldn't get to speak to anyone that's there, and we definitely wouldn't get to serve them food.
I did retail. I worked at TJ Maxx before. I did fast food at Shake Shack.
— Young M.A
Food that's served at the table in a paper parcel always creates a remarkable culinary moment when opened, because the package is full of aromatic steam from the lightly cooked ingredients inside.
The smells of slow cooking spread around the house and impart a unique warmth matched only by the flavour of the food.
Sea spaghetti looks like dark fettuccine and has a similar texture - you can get it in health food stores or online.
Fusion food as a concept is kind of trying to quite consciously fuse things that are sometimes quite contradictory, sometimes quite far apart, to see if they'd work.
When I was a kid, there was always food to be had on the street in Jerusalem, but anything above a falafel stand was mediocre or worse.
I think people know that I love food, but maybe people don't know that I cook a lot.
— Zoey Deutch
It was very hard for me to come back to a place of feeling normal about food and about my body. And then, when I came to the other side of it, it felt like something was gone. An exorcism. I still experience the same chemical swings and moods and pain, but I'm much better at dealing with it than I was at 18.
— Zoe Kazan
The music I do is food... that will be your dinner.
Each project you do demands a different diet in a way. Because there's so much tension in 'Betrayal,' so much holding of breath and emotion, I can't get too happy in my food choices or I can't get alert enough.
I would still like to own and run a restaurant serving Indian food with a good dollop of Parsi cooking - which you can't seem to get anywhere.
— Zarin Mehta
I like to get a salad or fruit in me - just some good energy food - and then a plate a pasta with a breast of chicken.
— Zach LaVine
Obviously, I like very beautiful food, because I think as delicious as food has to taste, it also has to look very beautiful - the process of presentation is very important.
I always end up in the kitchen at restaurants. At events or parties, too, I like to see where my food is prepared or made. I like the theater of it.
The food system is not a free market. In this country, we impose reasonably high standards of animal welfare - but we haven't applied the same standards to food we import, so all we're really doing is exporting cruelty from Britain elsewhere, and at the same time undermining our farmers.
I think the only real knowledge I had before I went to Iowa was what I learned from 'Food Inc'. But once I got there and developed these extensive relationships with the farmers, I realized that we're basically made of corn.
— Zac Efron
I am still not a fussy eater, although I do enjoy good food.
— Yves Chauvin
One man's trash is another man's treasure, and the by-product from one food can be perfect for making another.
Amaranth, the world's most nutritious grain, is available from health food stores.
I always preferred my father's pasta the next day, when he'd put it in a hot oven with heaps of extra cheese. It would emerge slightly burned and very crisp on top.
A food processor, or even one of those small bowls that fit on a stick blender, is a real treasure. No, that's not an overstatement.
The Guardian's 'Word of Mouth' blog bridges the gap between blogging and serious food journalism.
