Real Food Quotes

“Real food is whatever cooks are proud to make.”
― C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey

“My mother never stopped cooking. She never stopped nourishing me. On Sundays, her face would disappear into steam from simmering carrots, celery, and onions, as she prepped our soup for the week. Her food processor held a prominent spot on the kitchen counter, mixing homemade sauces. The kitchen always smelled of tahini. She showed me, leading by example, that real food is the right food. It is the only food.”
― Kristen Beddard, Bonjour Kale: A Memoir of Paris, Love, and Recipes

“It isn’t normal to live on milk and cream and cheese and ice cream and eggs and chocolate and wheat flour and alcohol. No! Man is a hunter. Most of the wheat flour should be fed to the animals. Let them go through the arduous labor of converting fodder into meat fat. And then eat the animal. That is the smart thing to do.”
― Dr. Blake F. Donaldson, Strong Medicine

“Real food needs no portion control. Your brain knows when its enough. Only junk food needs portion control.”
― Yogesh Verma, Skinny Without Willpower: How eating more and exercising less will help you lose weight and keep it off

“Rosa discreetly wrapped a paper napkin around her canapé- a dry affair of puff pastry and greasy smoked salmon- and deposited it in a wastebasket. She wasn't discreet enough; Alex noticed.
"Too bad about the food."
"I bet it cost an arm and a leg, too. Boy, these people would probably kill for a piece of pizza right now." Before any important gathering or holiday, her mother used to work on the food for days. Rosa would stand on a stepstool at the counter beside her, shaping meatballs or cutting dough. In the summer, she and Mamma would wrap paper-thin slices of prosciutto around melon balls and served them on toothpicks. There was nothing wrong with keeping food simple.”
― Susan Wiggs, Summer by the Sea

“If you buy your organic, all-natural, GMO-free tortilla chips at Whole Foods, you're still stuffing your liver and starving your gut--you're just paying more for the privilege.”
― Robert H. Lustig, Metabolical: The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine

“Everyone deserves fair access to quality food, nutritional education,
and adequate health care.”
― Donna Maltz, Conscious Cures: Soulutions to 21st Century Pandemics