Quotes About Foodways

Indigenous foods die when no one learns to cook them.

Laura Ingalls Wilder's 'Little House' series is a national treasure, beloved by generations. But what I love most is the peek it provides into the planting, harvesting, hunting, and preparing of the foods that America's settler families ate in the late 1800s.

I define culinary tourism as the intentional, exploratory participation in the foodways of an other - participation including the consumption, preparation, and presentation of a food item, cuisine, meal system, or eating style considered to belong to a culinary system not one's own.

Over the years, I have learned just how Southern my Northern upbringing was, and I think that it is important to begin by making the point that the custodians of many of the old ways of African American foodways are also to be found in the ghettoes of the North.