“Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.”

“My grandmother would shanghai pilots at the Havana airport so they'd bring me cartons of mango baby food -- the only kind I'd eat. I learned to eat peach later. And in every carton, she'd slip in a Cuban record.”

Gloria Estefan (1957) Cuban-American singer-songwriter, actress and divorciada

“You need an Ego, if you didn't have an ego you wouldn't know who's mouth to put food in, when eating in a restaurant.”

Terence McKenna (1946–2000) American ethnobotanist

“She said to her, "Grandmother, what great arms you have!"
"That's to embrace you the better, my child."
"Grandmother, what great legs you have!"
"That's to run the better, my child."
"Grandmother, what great ears you have!"
"That's to hear the better, my child."
"Grandmother, what great teeth you have!"
"That's for to eat you."
And upon saying these words, this naughty Wolf threw himself upon Little Red Riding Hood, and ate her.”

Charles Perrault (1628–1703) French author

“Don't eat anything incapable of rotting.”

Michael Pollan (1955) American author, journalist, activist, and professor of journalism

“Rachel Trachtenburg: I really like the food at that place (Sidewalk Cafe). They have salads and pastas and stuff like that. What's your favorite food?
Kimya Dawson: I like cherries.
Rachel: That's a fruit. I said food.
Kimya: Fruit's food.
Rachel: You don't sit down and eat it. You don't eat it at a restaurant, like, "Oh, I'd like a fruit, please." You say, "I'd like a pizza please, or the pasta." Do you like Indian food? Mexican food? Italian food?
Kimya: Japanese food.
Rachel: Okay.”

Rachel Trachtenburg (1993) American musician

“First offer to God whatever you eat. One must not eat unoffered food. As your food is, so will be your blood. From pure food you get pure blood, pure mind, and strength. Pure mind begets ecstatic love”

Sarada Devi (1853–1920) Hindu religious figure, spiritual consort of Ramakrishna

“I still remember when my teacher told me that football wouldn't give me anything to eat”

Cristiano Ronaldo (1985) Portuguese association football player

“Somebody dies and people eat your food. Funny how that works.”

Sherman Alexie book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

“There's always time to read. Don't trust a writer who doesn't read. It's like eating food prepared by a cook who doesn't eat.”

Laura Lippman (1959) Detective fiction writer