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Some argue that now is not the time to push the green agenda - that all efforts should be on preventing a serious recession. That is a false choice. It fails to recognise that climate change and our carbon reliance is part of problem - high fuel prices and food shortages due to poor crop yields compound today's financial difficulties.

Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.

My contribution I hope is to get people to eat full-flavored food. If I could come away with that alone, that would be a fantastic accomplishment. I am also very proud of being a very American chef.

At one point I had to shove as much food in my body as possible to pack on calories. My trainer wanted me to do six meals a day and not go two hours without eating. If I would cheat on eating one day, I could tell - I do drop a few pounds.

I know lots and lots and lots of vegetarians who think it is perfectly all right to kill animals for food to eat, but do not do it because they think all the ways in which it is done are wrong.

There is never been a culture that was not obsessed with food. The sort of sad thing is that our obsession is no longer with food, but with the price of food.

Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity.

Food is not just what we put in our mouths to fill up it is culture and identity. Reason plays some role in our decisions about food, but it is rarely driving the car.

I first became a vegetarian when I was nine, in response to an argument made by a radical babysitter. My great change - which lasted a couple of weeks - was based on the very simple instinct that it is wrong to kill animals for food.

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.

I love food.

Well, first of all, we've got to get away from being offended by the truth. We've seen a 41 percent increase in food stamp recipients across the United States of America since President Obama was sworn in in January 2009. That has nothing to do with black, white, Hispanic or whatever. It is a fact, and we need to, you know, deal with that.

Global trade has advantages. For starters, it allows those of us who live through winter to eat fresh produce year-round. And it provides economic benefits to farmers who grow that food.

In the 21st century our tastes buds, our brain chemistry, our biochemistry, our hormones and our kitchens have been hijacked by the food industry.

Junk food drags you down.

A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.

Used to be, conservatives revered the Average American, that Norman Rockwell oil painting of diner food, humble faith, honest toil, and Capraesque virtue.

Fast food is hugely important in the life of a comedy writer. All we do is order in, and what we are going to eat is hotly debated.

I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944.

One way to find food for thought is to use the fork in the road, the bifurcation that marks the place of emergence in which a new line of development begins to branch off.