Quotes About Tradition

While American ballplayers from Mickey Mantle to David Ortiz have flipped their bats, the act is still perceived as a great offense here - an insult to the pitcher, the opposing team and all that's sacred in America's pastime.

In this country, since footballs made from pigs' bladders were whacked into goals without nets, we've played on full-size pitches. Whatever our age.

Pittsburgh is a football town.

I'm originally from Pittsburgh. So I come from an amazing sports town.

It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be anyone to go home to.

For me, being Italian, I love pizza. Particularly from Naples. I am obsessed.

I went to Naples to work with one of the best pizza-makers in the world, and guess how long he bakes his pizzas for? He bakes them for 45 seconds. In and out. And they're incredible. Any more than that, and it's no longer considered a pizza. I've been spouting off to people for years - six minutes in an oven.

I love to go to Hunter's Pizza on Huntingwood and Birchmount. That's in Scarborough, of course! It's been in the same family for two generations. It's been there since I moved there in '67, so it's been there for 50 years. I can't claim it's the best pizza in the world but I can say it's my favorite pizza place.

Neapolitans have always had their fast food. It's called pizza.

My husband and I go to Il Fico every Friday, and I get the whole-wheat pizza. I won't eat pizza anywhere else!

I actually didn't grow up in a household that loved Chinese food particularly, and it's not really my go-to food or anything... We were more a pizza family, being from the Chicago area and all.

Movies are a big thing in our house. Every Friday, we do family pizza night, and we make pizza from scratch, and then we sit down and watch a movie.

I grew up in Italy, so for me, Naples pizza is the only type of pizza that there really is.

Belgium is such a beautiful place with so much history and charm.

In my childhood there was every year at my old home, Roxborough, or, as it is called in Irish, Cregroostha, a great sheep-shearing that lasted many days. On the last evening there was always a dance for the shearers and their helpers, and two pipers used to sit on chairs placed on a corn-bin to make music for the dance.

Vadodara is a lovely city and Gujarat has always been one of the most peaceful places in the country. I love everything about Gujarat and can't resist the Gujarati thali.

History has always fascinated me. Coming from a family that has it's own regal history, I always like places that have a rich past.

In most places in the Midwest, the best food is found in people's homes, on their farms, at church potlucks.

Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people.

A small gold plain cross was passed down from my grandma to my mom, then to me, and now to my daughter. It is always nice to own something that connects you to the women who made it possible for you to exist.

My grandpa was in the Navy, but it wasn't something that was expected or planned for me to do.

Georgians understand obligation, love of family, and payment plans.

A lot of cultures believe you take the placenta and you bury it and plant something.

When I was growing up on our 53-acre dairy farm, we were obsessed with food; it was the center of our lives. We planted it, grew it, harvested it, peeled it, cooked it, served it, consumed it - endlessly, day after day, season after season.