Quotes

You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients. Julia Child

US cook & cookbook author (1912 - 2004)

Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.

Anthelm Brillat-Savarin The Physiology of Taste, 1825

French gourmet & lawyer (1755 - 1826)

Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet. Albert Einstein

US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955)

Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.

We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are.

Adelle Davis (1904 - 1974)

Beauty isn't something on the outside. It's your insides that count! You gotta eat green stuff to make sure you're pretty on the inside.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005

The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest her or his patients in the care of the human frame, in a proper diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease. Thomas A. Edison

US inventor (1847 - 1931)

A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.

Paul Dudley White

When I walk into my kitchen today, I am not alone. Whether we know it or not, none of us is. We bring fathers and mothers and kitchen tables, and every meal we have ever eaten. Food is never just food. It's also a way of getting at something else: who we are, who we have been, and who we want to be.

Molly Wizenberg, A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table, 2009