Quotes About Identity

I've always loved food too much to be a model.

How can a nation be called great if its bread tastes like kleenex?

I wasn't a model that loved food. I was someone that loved food that started modeling.

The food in the South is as important as food anywhere because it defines a person's culture.

I was anorexic in the 60s and 70s, although it wasn't called anorexia then. I thought people would be nicer to me if I looked very small and delicate, so food wasn't high on my agenda. But it is now.

My favorite word is 'pumpkin.' You can't take it seriously. But you can't ignore it, either. It takes ahold of your head and that's it. You are a pumpkin. Or you are not. I am.

Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.

Cuisine is when things taste like themselves.

[The 'corporate takeover of people's lives'] also accounts for a lot of homogenization of culture. There are fast food restaurants everywhere. Every place tastes the same.

It doesn't matter who you are, or what you've done, or think you can do. There's a confrontation with destiny awaiting you. Somewhere, there is a chile you cannot eat.

The first weeks in the US, I was asking, 'Where is my food?'

Food is culture, and we need to listen to it.

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?

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

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

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

When you're a dancer who is injured, you are at the bottom of the food chain. We are so replaceable.

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.

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.

To me, food is a representation of your soul.

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.