Alan Sugar Quotes

I knоw you're Belgian, that's whеrе thоsе waffles соmе frоm

I'm one of those pesky Brits.

People ask me in Europe, when they do interviews... they ask me, 'Well, how does it feel to be a cook in a country that doesn't know how to eat?' It always touches a nerve, because Europe and the world think that America is no more than bad hot dogs and bad burgers.

England understands good Chinese, Japanese and Indian cuisine; in France, we just get French.

My contribution I hope is to get people to eat full-flavored food. If I could come away with that alone, that would be a fantastic accomplishment. I'm also very proud of being a very American chef.

I try to eat healthy, but being Belgian, I'm also addicted to chocolate.

Every country possesses, it seems, the sort of cuisine it deserves, which is to say the sort of cuisine it is appreciative enough to want.

I'm American. Very American. Like, I-might-have-biscuits-and-sausage-gravy-for-dinner American.

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.

People are trying to figure out what American food is; it's certainly an amalgamation.

Everyone's past is locked up in their recipes - the past of an individual and the past of a nation as well.

I hope this doesn't sound harsh, but if you're not constantly craving breakfast every second of every day, you're not a real American. Y'know what, let's throw the Canadians in there, too.

I'm Mexican and Kenyan at the same time. I've seen the quarrels over my nationality, but I'm Kenyan and Mexican at the same time. So again, I am Mexican-Kenyan, and I am fascinated by carne asada tacos.

People say to me all the time, 'When did you know that you had fully become an American?' And I say, 'The day I realized I loved peanut butter.'

After spending so much time in America, I started travelling with 'In Defence of English Cooking' by George Orwell. It's archaic and old-fashioned in its Englishness and reminds me of home.

New Zealand has better food - sorry, America.

Food is all about the story of a people through the ages.

The Belgian people, they're so happy.

I grew up in Brussels.

I just think our British cuisine and the different influences we pull together make it special when it comes to food.

Just because something is English does not necessarily mean it is good. We make the best cheddar; we make great pasties. But we can't make very good brie or baguettes - and the French can't make pork pies.

You know the Dutch, they're always a bit funny... some of them.

Frenchman: Germans with good food.

In France cooking is a serious art form and a national sport. I think the French enjoy the complication of the art form and the cooking for cooking's sake. You can talk with a concierge or police officer about food in France as a general rule. It is not the general rule here. Classical cuisine, which I hope we are going back to, means certain ways of doing things and certain ways of not doing things. If you know classical French cooking you can do anything. If you don't know the basics, you turn out slop.

I have an old soul. I don't know any real-life lingo, so I have to take it from movies.