Quotes About Tradition

The sharing of food is like breaking bread, it's very symbolic.

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?

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

My favorite food is macaroni and cheese that my grandma makes. My favorite drink has to be Vita Coco coconut water.

If antiquity be the only test of nobility, then cheese is a very noble thing ... The lineage of cheese is demonstrably beyond all record.

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

You have to know the classics if you want to cook modern food.

Children, we should always eat our food sitting down. Do not eat standing or walking around.

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

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.

I dont think a really good pie can be made without a dozen or so children peeking over your shoulder as you stoop to look in at it every little while.

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

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.

Of all smells, bread; of all tastes, salt.

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

I like visiting peoples homes on Saint Josephs Day, when people set up altars, serve food as a tribute to the saint, and invite the public - I enjoy that much more than Mardi Gras.

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.'

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

The best way to eat crabs, as everyone knows, is off newspaper at a large table with a large number of people.

I was taught from childhood of the sanctity of food. Not a piece of bread could be thrown away without kissing it and raising it to one's eyes as with all things holy.

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.

Food was celebration, conversation, and nourishment. The table is where the big decisions of the family are made and all the arguing takes place.