Quotes About Tradition

No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, the wisdom of cookbook writers.

In my experience, clever food is not appreciated at Christmas. It makes the little ones cry and the old ones nervous.

We were raised in an Italian-American household, although we didn't speak Italian in the house. We were very proud of being Italian, and had Italian music, ate Italian food.

Food is a central activity of mankind and one of the single most significant trademarks of a culture.

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

It's some chopped liver. That's Jewish soul food.

The mere smell of cooking can evoke a whole civilization.

If it has got four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.

The Italians were eating with forks when the French were still eating each other.

America is a such a melting pot, I'm not sure if roast chicken is the classic comfort food for everybody.

I think food culture is always evolving, and there will constantly be people looking both forward and back. That's what makes it exciting.

Breaking a glass in the northwest is rather like belching in Arabia, for it appears to be done as a mark of appreciation or elation.

Food was a constant topic of conversation in our household.

Food made by hand is an act of defiance and runs contrary to everything in our modernity. Find it; eat it; it will go. It has been around for millennia. Now it is evanescent, like a season.

I think every culture is passionate about food; some are just passionate about food and the food is shitty.

Happy Cinco de Mayo! It's a holiday that's as respectful of Mexican traditions as Epcot Center's Mexican food pavilion.

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

Americans are just beginning to regard food the way the French always have. Dinner is not what you do in the evening before something else. Dinner is the evening.

Cookbooks bear the same relation to real books that microwave food bears to your grandmother?s.

Cookery is naturally the most ancient of the arts, as of all arts it is the most important.

Cantonese will eat anything in the sky but airplanes, anything in the sea but submarines, and anything with four legs but the table.

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

Bouillabaisse is only good because cooked by the French, who, if they cared to try, could produce an excellent and nutritious substitute out of cigar stumps and empty matchboxes.

I used to watch my grandmother make fancy, Julia Child-style beef bourguignon. And growing up in New York City, I was exposed to many cultures. I experimented with Puerto Rican and Jamaican food.