Food was always important in my family, but I didn't think of it as a vocation until a later point in life.
— Yotam Ottolenghi
If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father.
My dad makes food with very few delicate flavours.
I cook everything from Italian to Cajun food. I have now mastered the roux for gumbo. I love cooking.
— Yolanda Adams
Vegetarian food is actually good for the body.
— Yogi Adityanath
With so much evidence of depleting natural resources, toxic waste, climate change, irreparable harm to our food chain and rapidly increasing instances of natural disasters, why do we keep perpetuating the problem? Why do we continue marching at the same alarming beat?
— Yehuda Berg
All of us want to live, and that is absolutely natural. However, we should learn from childhood on to choose our best way to die. If we don't do that, we end up spending our days like a dog, only in search of harbour, food and expressing a blind loyalty to his owner in return. That isn't enough to make our lives have a meaning.
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar.
— Xun Kuang
I find it much more compelling to make a four-biter that leaves you wishing that you had a fifth. I think 'the tyranny of the entree' is the right way to put it. I don't want to build this giant plate of food.
— Wylie Dufresne
I think things like 'farm to table' are misleading. I think sometimes that becomes a pedestal or a soap box to get people into your restaurant but is not... it's almost empty in a way. I mean, my food comes from a farm, and I serve it on a table.
I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead.
— Woody Allen
Television in the '80s was very limited. There was no Food Network.
— Wolfgang Puck
Italian food is all about ingredients and it's not fussy and it's not fancy.
Everybody has to put purees underneath everything now. It's like people think we need the steak, and then we need some baby food with it.
Food sovereignty is an affirmation of who we are as indigenous peoples and a way, one of the most surefooted ways, to restore our relationship with the world around us.
— Winona LaDuke
The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food.
— William Winwood Reade
If music be the food of love, play on.
— William Shakespeare
Stereotypical vegetarian food looks gray and brown.
Food can bring people together in a way nothing else could.
I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.
When I'm able to eat cheap and delicious food, like ramen and beef bowls, I can't stop but to think, 'Ah, what a great era I was born in.'
— Yoko Taro
I love all kinds of Indian music, and Indian food as well. If the chance arises for me to play in India, I'm there.
— Yngwie Malmsteen
The secret of being a great actor is a love of food.
— Yash Chopra
Today, the origin of 90% of all the edible food Gambians consume are from places they have never heard of.
— Yahya Jammeh
I'm really into this anime called 'Food Wars.'
— Xavier Woods
It's been a struggle to get people to come eat for fun. You know, the way they listen to music. You can do all kinds of things with music. But food - it's something people need, and that changes everything. You start playing with it, people have all sorts of reactions.
I lived in a hut with no roof, and I rode to school on a donkey. I used to shoot birds with a slingshot to cook for dinner. Now I prefer to get my food from KFC.
— Wyclef Jean
The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small.
What I don't like is breakfast in the morning. I have a double-espresso cappuccino, but no food.
A lot of restaurants serve good food, but they don't have very good service.
I grew up in Austria, and for me real comfort food is Wiener Schnitzel. Wiener Schnitzel and mashed potatoes because it reminds me of my youth... It reminds me when I grow up and it feels very comforting.
Food for us comes from our relatives, whether they have wings or fins or roots. That is how we consider food. Food has a culture. It has a history. It has a story. It has relationships.
We had the best food any battlefield ever had.
— William Westmoreland
I haven't eaten at a McDonald's since I became President.
— William J. Clinton
I like to talk about food, ingredients, and how to adapt recipes. It's a dialogue.
Dad likes my food, but he probably thinks it's too busy. He is a wonderful cook but only uses three ingredients. My mum rips out my articles and makes my recipes.
Good food is healthy food. Food is supposed to sustain you so you can live better, not so you can eat more. Some people eat to live, and some people live to eat.
You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six.
— Yogi Berra
If I was president, all the food in the grocery stores would be organic.
— YG
I am following a particular diet, and it requires me to not just eat right but also at the right time. So, I carry food from home.
— Yami Gautam
'Postmates' will provide you with any food you can imagine - delivered. Frozen yogurt craving? Need coffee and no time to run? Last minute dinner guests and no food in the house? They take care of it all. Easy and awesome. I'm a fan.
— Yael Cohen
People have been manipulating food ever since they realized cooking a whole animal was difficult. Cows don't come in hot dog form.
Typically, you learn how to cook, but you don't know why. We were looking for a deeper understanding of what was happening to our food as we roasted it, boiled it, grilled it, chopped it, etc. And it turned out, as we began to really say what is cooking, what does it mean to cook, there's a lot of science involved.
Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.
The original title for 'In the Mood for Love' was called 'A Story About Food.' The idea was to tell a love story through different courses.
— Wong Kar-wai
There's a lot of processed food in America and I know that can make some tourists who're used to fresh food feel sick.
I believe that London is the most exciting food city in Europe.
Politics is comparable to boxing. The only thing is that in politics there are basically no rules. In boxing, you can get a black eye, but in politics you can get poison in your food or a bullet in the head. It's definitely rougher and tougher than other sports.
— Wladimir Klitschko
I'm interested in what kind of food we're going to eat as the climate changes. I'm interested in what kind of economy we're going to have in another 1,000 years.
When I took command in Vietnam, I gave great emphasis to food and medical care - and to the mail.
