#food

From the simple stringing together of lemon garlands for the goddess Durga, to dividing the prasadam or blessed foods for the children first, I came to associate food not only with feminity, but also with purity and divinity. ↗

— Padma Lakshmi

#associate #blessed #came #children #dividing

The best thing you can do for someone is make them a beautiful plate of food. How else can you invade someone's body without actually touching them? ↗

— Padma Lakshmi

#beautiful #best #body #else #food

I love seafood. I'm not a vegetarian but I'm probably a pescetarian. ↗

— Padma Lakshmi

#i love #love #probably #seafood #vegetarian

I really like to sometimes go into food detox and eat very simply. ↗

— Padma Lakshmi

#eat #food #go #i #into

Part of my job as a food writer is to describe food. So my work on 'Top Chef,' I feel, is an extension of that. When we give a criticism to the contestant, we want to make sure we tell them why it's not working and why it would work if they did it a different way. ↗

— Padma Lakshmi

#contestant #criticism #describe #did #different

Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation. ↗

— Dalai Lama

#comforts #companion #encountering #even #food

Neither does man have gills for living in a water environment; yet it is not sinful to explore the depths of the oceans in search of food or other blessings. ↗

— Walter Lang

#depths #does #environment #explore #food

Today, there are also buyers and sellers of all these energy commodities, just like there are buyers and sellers of food commodities and many other commodities. ↗

— Kenneth Lay

#buyers #commodities #energy #food #just

Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts. ↗

— Edmund Leach

#cook #food #men #reasons #show

Whoever would have guessed that in the land of cheap sausages and mashed potatoes there could be such a change which would actually bring the French from Paris every weekend to invade Britain en masse to eat great food and drink great wine. ↗

— Robin Leach

#bring #britain #change #cheap #could