Get people back into the kitchen and combat the trend toward processed food and fast food.

We would load up the yellow Cutlass Supreme station wagon and pick blackberries during blackberry season or spring onions during spring onion season. For us, food was part of the fabric of our day.

In America, I would say New York and New Orleans are the two most interesting food towns. In New Orleans, they don't have a bad deli. There's no mediocrity accepted.

Not eating meat is a decision, eating meat is an instinct.

I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.

Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.

Food simply isn't important to me.

Our minds are like our stomaches they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.

I can make dressing - or stuffing. Y'all call it stuffing up here, we call it dressing down there. It's really good dressing. That family recipe was passed on, and I love to make that.

I always say centered food equals centered behavior.