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In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn.

In corn, I think I've found the key to the American food chain. If you look at a fast-food meal, a McDonald's meal, virtually all the carbon in it - and what we eat is mostly carbon - comes from corn.

Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before.

I don't do yoga. I bite the hella outta my nails. I smoke, I eat all the wrong food, I don't exercise.

We had no electricity, no gas. Food was probably our greatest entertainment - the most fun thing that we could do was food.

We trust something in a grocery store and assume it's good. We don't learn about the most precious thing in life-the food we put in our body. Educate yourself!

When I travel I normally eat club sandwiches or I bring my own food. When you go into a new town, it's very had to find a good place to eat.

You don't need a silver fork to eat good food.

I wait for the next opportunity to have something to do with food. If I get rested, my mind just starts creating new dishes - click, click, click.

Cajun is country food by farmers and fisherman that arrived in Louisiana from Acadiana, Canada.

Creole is New Orleans city food. Communities were created by the people who wanted to stay and not go back to Spain or France.

After failing four times and after working for other people and realizing that nobody paid attention to the food like they should have, we wanted to just pay attention to the food and service.

I think the most wonderful thing in the world is another chef. I'm always excited about learning new things about food.

I'd like to have the first restaurant that can deliver incredible quality food to your table at your house at any time-right where you live.

In '71 or '72 I returned to New Orleans and stayed there. I started cooking Louisiana food. Of all the things I had cooked, it was the best-and it was my heritage.

If you have acid in food, you need to sugar it. At a high temperature, the acids are changed to sugar.

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

The automatic stabilizer is unemployment insurance, food stamps, additional coverage of Medicaid.

I hid myself in food.

The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food.