I need protein from food rather than just protein supplements. I changed my diet.

The best thing you can do for someone is make them a beautiful plate of food. How else can you invade someone body without actually touching them?

Wine, like food, is so emotional. If you think about it, so much of the courting ritual is surrounded by wine and food. There is a built-in romance to wine.

I really like to sometimes go into food detox and eat very simply.

Part of my job as a food writer is to describe food. So my work on Top Chef, I feel, is an extension of that. When we give a criticism to the contestant, we want to make sure we tell them why it is not working and why it would work if they did it a different way.

From the simple stringing together of lemon garlands for the goddess Durga, to dividing the prasadam or blessed foods for the children first, I came to associate food not only with feminity, but also with purity and divinity.

We tend to connect bad food and bad habits with romance and sex.

Australia is the only island continent on the planet, which means that changes caused by planet-warming pollution - warmer seas, which can drive stronger storms, and more acidic oceans, which wreak havoc on the food chain - are even more deadly here.

With nine degrees of warming, computer models project that Australia will look like a disaster movie. Habitats for most vertebrates will vanish. Water supply to the Murray-Darling Basin will fall by half, severely curtailing food production.

They are now turning those seeds into intellectual property, so they have a virtual lock on the seeds upon which we all depend for our food and survival.

We are already producing enough food to feed the world. We already have technology in place that allows us to produce more than we can find a market for.

The American public is not aware that there might be potential allergenic and toxic reactions. With regular food, at least people know which foods they have an allergy to.

The public should know that the liability issues here have yet to be resolved, or even raised. If you are a farmer and you are growing a genetically engineering food crop, those genes are going to flow to the other farm.

I love Alton Brown's show Good Eats, about the chemistry of food. It is really thoughtful.

The thing about all my food is that everything is a remembered flavor. Maybe it is something I had as a child or maybe it is something I had in Milan, but I want it to taste better than you ever thought.

I worked for the Office of Management and Budget in the White House, on nuclear energy policy. But I decided it would be much more fun to have a specialty food store, so I left Washington D.C. and moved to the Hamptons. And how glad I am that I did!

There is nothing more romantic than Italian food.

No, I love Montreal... I think I love Montreal more than Montreal loves me... I love the food there.

Food is my thing, I do not smoke or drink, so food is my vice.

I just do not crave junk food.