Laurie Colwin Quotes

Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.

Food tells you everything about the way people live and who they are.

Culture is simply a shared way of doing something with passion.

We have a unique culture.

Culture or civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society

Yeah, well, food is always a part of everything.

Human cultural diversity is vast; the range of cultural practices, beliefs, and languages that we speak is vast.

Culture is the air we breathe all around us.

Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.

Culture is about the mindset of people, and we are very happy to have a strong combined mindset of people.

I grew up in a wonderful blend of a lot of old culture.

If we lose our culture, we lose our memory.

Culture is more important than politics.

Culture is more important than rules and regulations.

Culture is intangible. It's spiritual. You can't buy it.

Culture is the way for a country to know itself.

Cooking is about imbibing different cultures and putting them in a plate on the table.

I love seeing what people are eating. It's a great way of looking at what is similar and what is different about people. It's sociology and anthropology and history rolled into one.

Culture has no logic.

Food is a big part of my life.

Food is a part of life. People are foodies and love to shop for food.

To know a community is to know its food.

I was taught in my Introduction to Anthropology [course in college], it is not just the great works of [hu]mankind that make a culture. It is the daily things, like what people eat and how they serve it.

How do cultures differ from one another? Above all, in their customs. Tell me how you dress, how you act, what are your habits, which gods you honor, and I will tell you who you are. Man not only creates culture, he carries it around with him. Man is culture.

Culture is the name for what people are interested in, their thoughts, their models, the books they read and the speeches they hear, their table-talk, gossip, controversies, historical sense and scientific training, the values they appreciate, the quality of life they admire. All communities have a culture. It is the climate of their civilization.