Food = joy ... guilt ... anger ... pain ... nurturing ... friendship ... hatred ... the way you look and feel.... Food = everything you can imagine.

SUSAN POWTER, Food

Food is our common ground, a universal experience.

JAMES BEARD, O Magazine, Nov. 2003

Food has it over sex for variety. Hedonistically, gustatory possibilities are much broader than copulatory ones.

JOSEPH EPSTEIN, Familiar Territory

What is food to one, is to others bitter poison.

LUCRETIUS, De Rerum Natura

The fact is that this generation -- yours, my generation ... we're the first generation that can look at poverty and disease, look across the ocean to Africa and say with a straight face, we can be the first to end this sort of stupid extreme poverty, where in the world of plenty, a child can die for lack of food in it's belly.

BONO, 2004 PENN Address

More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.

JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH, The Affluent Society

Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.

M.F.K. FISHER, An Alphabet for Gourmets

Food was always a conduit in our family for storytelling, and it was a way for us to keep in touch and remember things. We're people that use food to keep each other together and to always cheer us up and make all of our days better.

RACHEL RAY, Newsweek, Oct. 15, 2007

Food is "everyday"--it has to be, or we would not survive for long. But food is never just something to eat. It is something to find or hunt or cultivate first of all; for most of human history we have spent a much longer portion of our lives worrying about food, and plotting, working, and fighting to obtain it, than we have in any other pursuit. As soon as we can count on a food supply (and so take food for granted), and not a moment sooner, we start to civilize ourselves.

MARGARET VISSER, Much Depends on Dinner

Food--what is chosen from the possibilities available, how it is presented, how it is eaten, with whom and when, and how much time is allotted to cooking and eating it--is one of the means by which a society creates itself and acts out its aims and fantasies.

MARGARET VISSER, Much Depends on Dinner

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, Man and Superman