Quotes About Culture

PORTUGUESE, n.pl. A species of geese indigenous to Portugal. They are mostly without feathers and imperfectly edible, even when stuffed with garlic.

Feasting is also closely related to memory. We eat certain things in a particular way in order to remember who we are. Why else would you eat grits in Madison, New Jersey?

I grew up with coconuts as the main flavor in food in Jamaica. It's part of our culture.

Mostly I enjoy the restaurants (my husband is a chef), though I wish we had a wider diversity of ethnic food.

Even though I grew up as a Sephardic Jew in Brooklyn where we ate Syrian food and went to temple, it was still America.

If you are going to a destination where the food might be more exotic than usual, always err on the side of caution.

No one really buys records anymore. You can look at sales and do that math real quick. Unfortunately, it's fast food in the music industry. People don't ingest full records anymore.

I cook the food of Macau, my roots and soul food.

I would not rob you of your food or your clothes or your umbrella, but if I caught your German out I would take it. But I don't study any more,- I have given it up.

I think things like food, the food of the south is sort of the common tie that binds us all, Black and White, the sense memories. It's a very particular part of the country.

Oats. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.

Cabbage soup and barley. They're Russia's national food. Both excellent in their way, but a shade monotonous.

Contemporary societies have lost the sense of the feast but have kept the obscure drive for it.

Louisiana has the best food on the planet if you don't really ask too much about what you're eating.

Food binds us to our roots as strongly as any song or poem. Many of us have learned more about our ancestors in the kitchen than we ever will from a book.

Food is the place where you begin.

New York is fast paced, with enthusiastic fans and lots of media attention. Houston's slower paced, and there's more of a southern culture to the city. But both cities have unbelievable food.

Just ask the local people for the best food. Don't rely on a guidebook.

When you have a Jewish mother who has a very strong Jewish family, it's very ethnic in its practices. Eating brisket, the food and the family and the interconnectedness for better or worse.

What makes cookbooks interesting is to find out about the people and the culture that invented the food.

I come from food the way some people come from money. Food was the medium I grew up in, what we talked about, what shaped our days.

I don't drink anymore for Cinco de Mayo. I celebrate with Mexican food, or as it's known in Mexico: 'food.'

People don't think that bread is part of Asian culture or Asian food culture, but it's quite prevalent in Northern China, and you see it throughout Japan and as you go to Taiwan.

Holland gets by on a total of four food additives; we have over 1,400.