Quotes About Culture

My Mom always cooked healthy. Greek food lends itself to cooking healthy.

If any one element of French cooking can be called important, basic and essential, that element is soup.

We're in need for culture change. We're going to change the way you know you look at food, sugar, sleep.

Junk food, empty calories and carbs are the Big Data of the masses

Iowa City is okay as Midwestern cities go, but theres no food, no culture, no ocean.

See, food I can talk about. I'm Italian, I know the food.

Clearly, America's dysfunctional food culture must bear some of the blame for our excess pounds, but it's likely our walking-averse lifestyles contribute as well.

Food culture in the United States has long been cast as the property of a privileged class. It is nothing of the kind. Culture is the property of a species.

A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.

I've always been able to cook Italian food. That's in my blood because I'm half Sicilian.

But what I'm very interested in, whether it's writing, whether it's hosting a show, whether it's cooking food, I'm just into the discussions of identity, culture and the politics of culture.

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.

I would like to have you quote me, Erich von Stroheim, as having said on this day of this month of this year this one thing: you Americans are living on baby food.

Hot soup at table is very vulgar; it either leads to an unseemly mode of taking it, or keeps people waiting too long whilst it cools. Soup should be brought to table only moderately warm.

I was very impressed with the street food of Singapore. I was very impressed with the dishes that they did.

You know most of the food that Americans hold so dear - things like hamburgers and hot dogs - were road food, but even before they were road food, they were peasant food.

To me, food is a representation of your soul.

The Italians seem to have a better attitude with kids and the food is great!

Food is a great way of communicating.

I'm sure one of the frustrations of being a Western enthusiast of Japanese food and culture is you're confronted every day with the absolute certainty that you will die ignorant.

the seat of the greatest patriotic loyalties is in the stomach. Long after giving up all attachment to the land of his birth, the naturalized American citizen holds fast to the food of his parents.

Vegetarian: Indian word for lousy hunter.

There is no question that Rumanian-Jewish food is heavy. One meal is equal in heaviness, I would guess, to eight or nine years of steady mung-bean eating.

France must be an example to the world in the quality of its food, starting with its children.