I hate menus, I hate choosing food. I just want to be brought. Bring me dinner!

Food - I love nuts. I eat them all the time, they are easy to carry around, and I am never hungry all day long.

Most food you drop is still perfectly edible. If it was in your eyesight the whole time, you can pick it up and eat it.

There are a lot of food Nazis in the U.S., but I believe if you can show people what's really important, they will judge the rest for themselves.

Food is no longer sacred to us: in becoming too efficient we've changed its nature.

I think wine is such a big universe that it is kind of like food - it is intimidating to a lot of people, myself included.

People always comment about my clothes. They do not think a fashionable woman can love food and be knowledgeable and actually cook.

Without food, man can live at most but a few weeks without it, all other components of social justice are meaningless.

I went in saying I wanted to be the food guy.

Jay Leno is not a guy who likes change. He eats the same food every day.

You know the great irony is that people think you have to have money to enjoy fine food, which is a shame.

When I come home from a shoot, I do rather reheat food I have made than eat takeout.

I have always hoped Chopped would telegraph our enormous affection and love and admiration for chefs and food, but at the same time, we are inflicting extraordinary cruelty on them.

In recent years, I have been writing because I am fortunate enough to work in the world of food television, to travel and taste and learn about cooking from the best chefs in the business.

Believe me, I understand the need for easy and speedy. After a 12-hour day of shooting Chopped, say, I am talking stir-fry, spaghetti, heck, peanut-butter sandwiches. But that is not about the joy of food. That is survival.

I think what I do differently from a lot of TV chefs is that I break down barriers and make fine food more accessible to the regular person, who might be intimidated. I try hard, particularly with wine, to make it not intimidating. It is sort of a teaching job.

The interesting thing is, while we die of diseases of affluence from eating all these fatty meats, our poor brethren in the developing world die of diseases of poverty, because the land is not used now to grow food grain for their families.

Back in 1983, the United States government approved the release of the first genetically modified organism. In this case, it was a bacteria that prevents frost on food crops.

I love food and I love my curves.

I used to eat because food tastes so good. I love food, it is one of the best things on this planet. But I changed the way I was thinking. I started asking myself, Hey, am I eating because it tastes good? Or because I really need some more? Am I really still hungry?'