Leo Tolstoy

Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.

It’s all God’s will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.

Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it. – Vronksy (Anna Karenina)

The best stories don’t come from ‘good vs. bad’ but ‘good vs. good.’

Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.

Everything I know, I know because of love.

I don’t go long without eating. I never starve myself: I grab a healthy snack.

Together, we can help make sure that every family that walks into a restaurant can make an easy, healthy choice.

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

The only meat I eat is from animals I’ve killed myself.

No eggs, no omelette. And it depends on the quality of the eggs. In the supermarket, you have eggs class one, class two, class three. Some are more expensive than others and some give you better omelettes. So when the class one eggs are in Waitrose and you cannot go there, you have a problem.

I am vegetarian. I became one at 20 when I was working in a pig farm. I got attached to the pigs and I couldn’t stand the thought that they would have to go off to be slaughtered.

Eating is touch carried to the bitter end.

I love to cook comfort food. I’ll make fish and vegetables or meat and vegetables and potatoes or rice. The ritual of it is fun for me, and the creativity of it.

A mighty porterhouse steak an inch and a half thick, hot and sputtering from the griddle; dusted with fragrant pepper; enriched with little melting bits of butter of the most impeachable freshness and genuineness; the precious juices of the meat trickling out and joining the gravy, archipelagoed with mushrooms; a township or two of tender, yellowish fat gracing an out-lying district of this ample county of beefsteak; the long white bone which divides the sirloin from the tenderloin still in its place.

Preparing food is not just about yourself and others. It is about everything!

Sacred cows make the best hamburger.

I do not like broccoli. And I haven’t liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I’m President of the United States and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli.

American food is too dry! I need myself some proper Chinese soup like right now.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.