Vincent Rodriguez III Quotes

I think that people are getting really excited about different ethnic food, and almost even micro-ethnic food. So it's not just, 'I love Asian,' it's Szechuan or Hunan, this one style from China.

My favourite types of cuisine are Asian and Caribbean, and I love cooking new recipes for my family.

You just feel a little odd when you don't get your kind of food. Fortunately, there are Indian restaurants all over the world.

I love Indian, Italian and Mexican food. And if it's a romantic type of thing, I like a good French restaurant.

I love pizza, I love Chinese food, Caribbean food, I love Italian.

I am obsessed with Chinese restaurants. Like many Americans, I first discovered them in my childhood.

I do love Italian food. Any kind of pasta or pizza. My new pig out food is Indian food. I eat Indian food like three times a week. It's so good.

Going to Southeast Asia for the first time and tasting that spectrum of flavors - that certainly changed my whole palate, the kind of foods I crave. A lot of the dishes I used to love became boring to me.

I will eat disgusting things, but only those with long established culinary traditions.

Chinese food tries to engage the mind, not just the palate. To provoke the intellect.

These days it's cool to be ethnic and to be different, but when I was a kid, it was not cool - at all. My friends would come over and my mom would make crepes with eggs, stuffed with mozzarella cheese, tomatoes and spinach. And they'd be like, 'What is this?'

Food makes travel so exceptional, because you get to taste what it's actually supposed to taste like. To eat the real Pad Thai or finally have a proper curry is something pretty amazing.

Near Marseilles in the south of France, bouillabaisse is a cult food. In Toulouse and Carcassonne, the bean-based stew cassoulet is a cult food. Spain has paella and a number of others. Italy has so many, its cuisine is practically defined by them.

As long as there's pasta and Chinese food in the world, I'm okay.

When I venture out to eat, I like to go to places with food that I don't know how to make. So my favorites are Japanese and Indian. Indian food has so much layering of flavor, and the dishes go together so harmoniously.

I have a great love for cuisine, so I'm always interested in local food, and there are so many interesting dishes, spices and ingredients in India.

Wherever I go, as long as I get a hot vegetable dish, I am okay. If I am in Gujarat, I have Gujarati food. If it's Shillong, it's northeastern.

Middle Eastern cuisine has the same depth of ingredients and processes as other cuisines. They just haven't had as much exposure.

Chicago is a lot of my background as a chef.

In my family and among Korean-Americans, there just is no occasion that people would get together without bibimbap. It's something that people eat when they're wanting to celebrate or have a good time with friends.

When we first moved to Scarborough, there was one Sri Lankan grocery store - now there's a take-out on every corner, each with some specialty or another. You can get what you want the way you want it, and that's very different from the way it used to be.

When I visit a country, I like to experience local food.

Mostly I enjoy the restaurants (my husband is a chef), though I wish we had a wider diversity of ethnic food.

Chinese restaurants have long been a weekly or monthly ritual for many Americans.

I love the food in Thailand because of the exotic spices they use. Their style of cooking is unique to their culture and always amazing.