Unlike other essential goods, like clothing, shelter, or food, we take cheap or even free water for granted. It often takes a crisis, such as a major drought or flood, to spur investment and policy reforms in improving water security.
— Jose Angel Gurria
One thing that makes me very happy is to see the growing activism among chefs in America. Chefs like Tom Colicchio, Bill Telepan, and Rachel Ray and food writers like Michael Pollan have gone to Congress, indeed sometimes even have testified before Congress, have lent this support to Mrs. Obama's effort to combat childhood obesity.
— Jose Andres
Spain is a fascinating mix of people, languages, culture and food, but if there is one thing all Spaniards share, it's a love of food and drink.
In America, diner food or roadside barbecue is the best road food, but I am not a fan of eating while driving - too messy.
Food is national security. Food is craft. Food is everything, when you think about it.
I realized very early the power of food to evoke memory, to bring people together, to transport you to other places, and I wanted to be a part of that.
I was very impressed with the street food of Singapore. I was very impressed with the dishes that they did.
I am from Spain, but my family and I have made America our home. For the last 17 years, I have been cooking Spanish food in Washington, D.C.
It wasn't until I got 'SNL' that my parents told me they were a little bit worried, like that I would have food to eat.
— Jorma Taccone
In our world, 80 to 90 percent of women's weight gain comes from overindulging in insulin-stimulating food. And it's not hardcore, straight-up, I-can-see you-in-the-face sugar. They're eating whole-wheat bread. They're eating ancient grains. They're eating black beans. That stuff is horrible.
— Jorge Cruise
I often go to lunch meetings with my agent, a gallerist or a casting director, but if not, I stay at home and prepare my own food because I love to cook. I'm great at pasta, fish and nice salads.
— Jordi Molla
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
— Jonathan Swift
There's never been a culture that wasn't obsessed with food. The sort of sad thing is that our obsession is no longer with food, but with the price of food.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
Food prices are often kept artificially high. The result is that the Millennium Development Goals set out by the United Nations at the start of the new millennium are not being reached. Fine words have not yet been turned into deeds.
— Jonathan Sacks
Most of the time, comparing printed song lyrics with poems is like comparing recipes with food: that's to say, patently unfair.
— Jonathan Miles
Many foreigners imagine that Latin American cuisine is spicy, but Chilean food, on the whole, is extremely bland: salt, vinegar, mayonnaise, and more salt are the four basic condiments. Black pepper is conspicuously absent, and not only from the food - it is also rarely available even on request.
— Jonathan Franklin
Food is important to me, but I wouldn't say that I'm a gourmet. I don't like tricksy food.
— Jonathan Dimbleby
I cannot wait to see the day that one day we will have a chef that will become the secretary of food of the United States of America.
The time has come to recognize that food, how we produce it, process it, package it, sell it, cook it and eat it, is as important as any other issue.
As a chef and father, it kills me that children are fed processed foods, fast food clones, foods loaded with preservatives and high-fructose corn syrup.
For food to be romantic, it should be light. Too many times people plan a romantic meal, and the food is too heavy.
I think every chef should have a food truck. It's a good way to test the markets, to invest in meeting the future restaurant goers.
The right use of food can end hunger.
Everyone else in the world still thinks of American food as ketchup.
We all have our food weaknesses and mine is snacking. I have a sweet tooth and I love chocolate. But I have learned that if you plan ahead you can get round that. I always carry a few chocolate-flavoured protein bars when I'm travelling.
— Jos Buttler
There's always been music in my house growing up. In the kitchen, there's a speaker, and we'd always have my mum's iPod in it - she never makes food without listening to music. And I used to watch 'Top of the Pops' with my dad.
— Jorja Smith
The only secret to food combination is a balance of protein, carbs and fat - they all play a key role in our health.
You only have to see the rate of divorce in cricket. You're away so much and then 18 months later, you're around all the time and not sure what to do with the rest of your life. You go from being at the peak of your powers to being at the bottom of the food chain.
— Jonny Bairstow
I first became a vegetarian when I was nine, in response to an argument made by a radical babysitter. My great change - which lasted a couple of weeks - was based on the very simple instinct that it's wrong to kill animals for food.
I know lots and lots and lots of vegetarians who think it's perfectly all right to kill animals for food to eat, but don't do it because they think all the ways in which it's done are wrong.
The enemy of successful long-term freezing is air. When air meets food, dehydration occurs, leading to freezer burn. With delicate proteins like fish, freezer burn can be downright fatal, ruining both texture and flavor.
Why is it when we have a bad experience with a product, we assume it is us, but a bad experience with food, we blame the food?!
— Jonathan Ive
There's nothing very exotic about classic Chilean street food. Imagine a hot dog hidden beneath an explosion of mayonnaise and ketchup. Cost? Twenty-five to 30 pence. This is the completo, an all-purpose solution to breakfast, lunch or, once, the curiously English teatime snack enjoyed by Chileans of all ages.
Here is what I am not going to do: I am not going to go to a restaurant, take pictures of my food, download them, and call that a blog. That is beyond the pale. The Internet is such a bazaar of self-indulgences that I don't know why that particular one should bug me so much. But it really does.
— Jonathan Dee
Food and the way we grow it and produce it are a major cause of environmental degradation.
Even today with the public's growing interest in food and diet issues, politicians rarely include food as part of their political platforms.
The federal government spends about $2.51 per child per day to feed them lunch. Out of that, you have to pay for labor, facilities, and administrative costs, leaving about a dollar for food. Imagine trying to feed yourself a nutritious meal every day with only a dollar. Very difficult.
To me, what I'm interested in, in the end, is the meaning of food in our lives.
In 2010, I created World Central Kitchen as a way to try and help find solutions to many of the food issues we face.
I prefer natural hardwood lump charcoal - the other stuff makes your food taste like Goodyear tires.
I remember that at the beginning of the month, the kind of menus my mom and father would prepare for us would have fish, chicken. But at the end of the month - because my father would be waiting for paycheck - the refrigerator would get empty. I remember that without a lot of food left, some of the best meals happened right there.
I love Japanese food - it's a really healthy way of cooking and it is very easy: I often just steam the vegetables and fish together, make a space for the noodles, and I have a great healthy meal in 15 minutes.
I love all Puerto Rican food. I love rice and beans. I like anything with steak, chicken, pork. But I like chocolate and potato chips, too. I eat that when my wife goes away and isn't looking.
— Jorge Posada
I love food and I love my curves.
— Jordin Sparks
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity.
Food is not just what we put in our mouths to fill up; it is culture and identity. Reason plays some role in our decisions about food, but it's rarely driving the car.
Without strenuous preplanning, road food is almost always bad food, sad food, chain food, clown food.
I'm not fussy about my food.
— Jonathan Franzen
Travelling to make television programmes means I have some unusual food memories. In Pasto, Colombia, I was taken to a restaurant where I chose my meat for the evening from a cage of white rats. It tasted perfectly good - like rabbit.
