Lisa Hanawalt Quotes

When I was growing up, I didn't like cheese. I had to wean myself onto cheese.

I grew up in the Philippines and we had all this amazing fresh seafood, but uni was something that I was weirded out by. It wasn't until I was an adult that I was like, 'Let me just go ahead and try this.'

When I was a kid, I hated everything. I was really skinny, and I'd have a milkshake with an egg in it. Growing up, I ate, like, five different foods. I was not an adventurous eater. But as soon as I left home, that all changed and from that point on, I've been a pretty enthusiastic eater of new and strange food.

Although, I didn't really like sushi until I moved out to L.A.

Eating among the French certainly affected me. After a few years here, I gave up most of my selective food habits.

When I was younger I was strictly meat-and-potatoes and I just wouldn't try things. As I have gotten older, I'm much more adventurous but still not like whoever that dude is on whatever show it is who just goes around and eats bugs everywhere.

I tend to eat geographically. When I'm in L.A., I like to eat L.A. food.

I think for diners, it is about crafting an identity around food which we have not really had in a mainstream way in this country. So there is a mass movement of people who identify themselves through their food preferences or even just that they prioritize food - that's where we get this idea of being a foodie.

I do not like onions. It's so funny because I am probably one of the least picky eaters ever. Pretty much any type of new food, I'll try it, I'll eat it. But onions, and pork. Pork and onions.

There are many cultural prejudices. For instance, even though fresh fish is a regional staple, Catalans don't like sashimi.

I love any kind of food. I don't have a sweet tooth, but I love haleem.

People have their cultural reasons for eating meat, their traditional reasons, their likes and dislikes.

I definitely love kimchi. The biggest influence that eating so much Korean food growing up had on me was that I have no limit for spiciness. The hotter the better.

All the foods that you regularly eat are ones that you learned to eat. Everyone starts life drinking milk. After that, it's all up for grabs. From our first year of life, human tastes are astonishingly diverse.

The year 2014 was a big year for my taste buds. They really stepped up their game. Like, I got into red wine, coffee and sushi for the first time. Well done, George.

Given my travels, I've learned to be more open and feel much more comfortable experimenting with food.

I was a vegetarian for a really long time, from 7 to 23, so I feel like some things aren't that weird but they seem weird to me, like blood sausage or snails. Those are things I've eaten now that, years ago, it would have been totally improbable that I would have eaten.

How can I tell if I was born hating coconut or developed a hatred of coconut because my father distrusted it as an ingredient?

I do quite like rice and beans weirdly, I don't know how or why. For me I always eat my beans first one by one and then savour the rice because it is bloody fantastic.

We grew up in Texas. We ate fried chicken and steak all the time. I didn't eat sushi until I was 24.

I love to travel with my own hot sauce, and I have it in packets so I no longer have to be disturbed by TSA.

All kids are fussy eaters - they go through phases where they'll only eat red food or they just want to eat porridge. With fussy kids, the best thing to do is use what they do like and work around it.

I don't know what would happen to me if I ate a bacon sandwich, but I'm just not interested.

I am an extremely adventurous eater and an avid lover of spicy food.

I love to try the local food wherever I am. But I'm not that adventurous when it comes to eating. I prefer to be safe. I have failed at eating some daring food.