Adam Rex Quotes

I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!

When I was 11 my friend's mom made a peanut butter sandwich. I ate the sandwich and was like, 'I'm never eating anything else again.' And I still eat peanut butter every day. I would put peanut butter on a steak.

One of my favorite dishes, absolutely from my childhood, was something my grandmother made, on my mother's side. It was a shepherd's pie, and I really adored that.

I was every other kid in elementary school. I was eating packaged burritos for lunch... and pizzas - it's not the worst, but not the best.

My husband and I grew up in India, so saag and tikka sauces are very nostalgic for us.

Meatloaf was a pretty big part of our family, and the meatloaf sandwiches were even more.

I used to get these as a kid all the time - Doritos, Cheetos, Funions... and Andy Capp's Hot Fries. I have a crunch fetish.

In school, I used to love eating pav bhaji and kulchey choley from our canteen.

Back in my school days, when I would scuttle off with a cheese roll, an apple, a box of Sun-Maid raisins and a Penguin bar, my packed lunches were reassuringly predictable. And I liked it that way.

When I was a kid, my idea of heaven on a hot summer day was fresh cut-up watermelon, Breakstone's cottage cheese, and a sprinkle of salt.

My mom used to make delicious aloo ke parathe, and would give me two for school lunch.

By definition, comfort foods are rich and creamy or evocative of childhood pleasures.

You can't beat a bar of chocolate between cheap white bread - there is nothing like it.

We didn't have packed lunches at my school. I was a lunch monitor as well - I used to take everyone's chips!

When I was a kid, my favorite after-school snack was hominy and pickled pigs feet.

When I was a kid, I couldn't see life outside ramen noodles and Kool-Aid.

Like all Iranian kids, I grew up feeling strongly that the best part of dinner was tahdig, the crisp, golden crust that forms at the bottom of every pot of Persian rice - and sometimes other dishes, too.

When I was a kid, I loved having muffins and cupcakes and I still like them with coffee.

My signature dish - something I've been making since I was 10 - is angel hair pasta with shrimp and feta in a white-wine basil sauce with tomatoes, because it's absolutely amazing.

I grew up in the Fifties and Sixties and remember how unpleasant all kinds of food could be then.

I love pies of all types. I especially love rhubarb. I grew up with rhubarb growing on our property, and my mom would make rhubarb pies and jam. I have to admit, though, my earliest memories of rhubarb were not fond ones, but over time, I grew to love it.

I grew up eating chicken and dumplings in my grandma's kitchen.

My maternal grandmother, Annie Sparks, lived with our family during the while I was growing up. When I came home from school, after having made a detour to the kitchen to pour a glass of milk and fix a thick peanut butter sandwich on easy-to-tear white bread, I would go up to her sitting room.

Bread and football - that's how I grew up.

Between 1965 and 1980, my mother, Frances Junod, served cutlets of pale flesh - mostly veal and chicken, though sometimes pork - to my father, my brother and sister, and me at least twice a week.