Everything that has to do with food is sensuous. In the United States, however, we are eating all the time. We have a problem with obesity. And yet, we don't enjoy food that much.
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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's rarely driving the car.
Food is a very sensitive subject for so many people.
There's never been a culture that wasn't obsessed with food. The sort of sad thing is that our obsession is no longer with food, but with the price of food.
The problem is when that fun stuff becomes the habit. And I think that's what's happened in our culture. Fast food has become the everyday meal.
There are a lot of great things about food, but it's something that's an eternal struggle in our contemporary society, where and how food is made, where it's coming from, how much to consume. There are so many layers to it.
You know I don't care about what I eat. I love food so much, I can't affect the way I eat.
I love food and feel that it is something that should be enjoyed. I eat whatever I want. I just don't overeat.
I don't understand a mentality that will accept eating something that doesn't taste good just because it's low-fat or is made with matzo or whatever.
I really believe that people don't have to eat healthy; they just have to know what they are eating, and then they'll eat better. That is really the movement we are behind.
Food is intensely pleasurable, and people are afraid that if they change the way they eat, they'll stop having pleasure.