Paul Hollywood Quotes

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.

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

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 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.

I take a cooking class everywhere I travel. I find it's the best way to get to know a culture.

I really loved traveling the U.S. and seeing regional differences within the same country and how the same ingredients are used in very different ways. I love how the 'old guard' of cuisine are still pioneering so much of the direction of food today.

The great tradition of Delhi can be seen through its cuisine.

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

To know a community is to know its food.

What makes cookbooks interesting is to find out about the people and the culture that invented the food.

I guess after college, I just got really into food. I also think going on the road doing stand-up makes you more into food. Because when you travel like that, one of the things to do is find really good places to eat.

Something I learned when I was very young: with cooking, it doesn't matter where you are; you can always cook. You can end up in small village in Peru where somebody's cooking, take a spoon and taste it, and you might not be too sure what you're eating, but you can taste the soul in the food. That's what is beautiful with food.

Chicago is a lot of my background as a chef.

I had decided I wanted to write about food, and I knew the only way to do that is to speak with authority, which meant learning the language and knowing what that experience is like.

Old cookbooks connect you to your past and explain the history of the world.

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

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

Food is everything we are. It's an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It's inseparable from those from the get-go.

My wife Neelam is a North Indian, so she will make North Indian food, while my mother will make Bengali food.

I like health-conscious cooking, but growing up in the South, I do love southern cooking; southern France, southern Italy, southern Spain. I love southern cooking.

A cookbook is a moment in time because, otherwise, you look back at the end of the day, and all the meals have been eaten, and the experience is gone.

Food is not just eating energy. It's an experience.

I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.

I come from a family of great cooks and big eaters.

I love experiencing new cultures and new foods.