I am trying to cut down a little on eating, on sodium, keep my blood pressure down, which is tough. Because I love food! I do, but it is unfair how everything that is bad for you tastes so good, and all the good stuff, veggies and green things, Does not match up.

I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.

Most small business owners are not particularly sophisticated business people. That is not a criticism they are passionate about cutting hair or cooking food, and that is why they got in the business, not because they have an MBA.

I think one thing that kids who grow up on farms really have going for them is they have exposure to death and birth in a totally different way. I think it takes away a little bit of the mystery and a little bit of the fear, and I do wish I had that. And I wish I was able to grow my own food.

Becoming food savvy is one thing, but it is amazing how fast savvy turns to snooty, and snooty leaves you preparing three-hour meals that break your budget and that the kids won't even eat.

As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world - most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world poor.

Our children's health and well-being are dependent on our commitment to promoting food access and good eating habits at home, at school and in the community.

The Middle East is ailing. The malady stems from pervasive violence, shortages of food, water and educational opportunities, discrimination against women and - the most virulent cause of all - the absence of freedom.

If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?

I was always on the go, and thought I was too busy to develop something like this. I thought at the time that diabetes went along with bad habits, but I was the last one in my family to eat junk food.

Food has always brought me comfort and the bingeing is triggered when I am in a space that is not positive.

I kept thinking, Somebody has to make a food show that is actually educational and entertaining at the same time... a show that got down to the why things happen. Plus, I hated my job - I did not think it was very worthwhile.

You do not want flame to hit your food. Flame is bad. Flame does nasty things to food. It makes soot and it makes deposits of various chemicals that are not too good for us. The last thing you really want to see licking at your food while it is on a grill is an actual flame.

I spent a college semester in a small town in Italy - and that is where I truly tasted food for the first time.

You know most of the food that Americans hold so dear - things like hamburgers and hot dogs - were road food, but even before they were road food, they were peasant food.

I think a lot of food shows, especially when we started Good Eats back in the late 90s, they were still really about food. Good Eats is not about food, it is about entertainment. If, however, we can virally infect you with knowledge or interest, then all the better.

I am a filmmaker who decided to go to culinary school. All I picked up was the fact if I did not understand what was going on with every single ingredient, I could be qualifying for, like, the lunch food job at my daughter's school.

I am a filmmaker. That is all I have ever been. You know, Martin Scorsese makes films about the mob. And I make movies about food.

Do not allow watching food to replace making food.

Keep it simple in the kitchen. If you use quality ingredients, you do not need anything fancy to make food delicious: just a knife, a cutting board, and some good nonstick cookware, and you are set.