Quotes About Authenticity

Never be afraid to share your story. No one can tell it like you can.

Perfectionism sucks the air out of your uniqueness and leaves you empty, away from who you could become.

The expression of your heart is beating beneath your fears

A man always has two reasons for what he does--a good one, and the real one.

Food is not about impressing people. It's about making them feel comfortable.

Street food, I believe, is the salvation of the human race.

I live on good soup, not on fine words.

We don't care to eat toadstools that think they are truffles.

But I always felt that I'd rather be provincial hot-tamale than soup without seasoning.

I am still convinced that a good, simple, homemade cookie is preferable to all the store-bought cookies one can find.

Don't try to be the next Rachael Ray or Bobby Flay, we already have those people. We want someone who is going to make their own mark on 'Food Network.'

Cuisine is when things taste like themselves.

I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pate than any other.

Real food meas big-flavoured, unpretentious cooking. Good ingredients made into something worth eating. Just nice, uncomplicated food.

Let things taste of what they are.

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

If it doesn't rot, it's not real food.

The way I feel about it is: Beat me or feed me, but don't tease me. It's toy food; who needs it? Serve it to toy people.

If by that you mean that I dislike celebrity magazines, prefer food to anorexia, refuse to watch TV shows about models, and hate the color pink, then yes. I am proud to be not really a girl.

The real food is not being advertised.

I write for the people I grew up with. I took extreme pains for my book to not be a native informant. Not: 'This is Dominican food. This is a Spanish word.' I trust my readers, even non-Spanish ones.

It scored right away with me by being the smooth, fine-grained sort, not the coarse flaky, dry-on-the-outside rubbish full of chunds of gut and gristle to testify to its authenticity.

Let things taste the way they are.

Parla Come Mangi' --It is a common way to say 'be simple', 'don't try to be rhetorical' literaly: 'speak the way you eat