Tony Rock Quotes

I'm from South Georgia, so my mom, she always cooked some dang good food when I was growing up.

I grew up with fantastic Southern food. In Southern California.

I can make dressing - or stuffing. Y'all call it stuffing up here, we call it dressing down there. It's really good dressing. That family recipe was passed on, and I love to make that.

I love food: biscuits and gravy, cheese grits, spaghetti and meatballs, chicken-fried steak with white gravy... but my favorite dish is my wife's beanie weenie cornbread casserole. It's so good. It sounds stupid, but if you eat it, it's heaven. Of course, it's only something you can eat if you've got a lot of money.

I think tripe is maligned. It's wonderful stuff, but everyone goes 'urgh.' You have to wash and then cook it, very gently braise it, for eight hours. It uplifts you but steadies you at the same time.

My abuela was an incredible cook.

If your mother cooks Italian food, why should you go to a restaurant?

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

When I was growing up, my grandmother cooked every day. She is the best chef ever.

I wanted to keep that message of food and family alive, and how it brings people together and builds relationships and communication.

The food and culture of any place go hand in hand.

I grew up loving okra.

To know a community is to know its food.

My father, he made chili; that was probably his favorite dish to make.

Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity.

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

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

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.

I love cooking. It's one of my favorite things to do. To share my parents' recipes that I grew up with is just something very special to me.

In my family and among Korean-Americans, there just is no occasion that people would get together without bibimbap. It's something that people eat when they're wanting to celebrate or have a good time with friends.

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

The best comfort food will always be greens, cornbread, and fried chicken.

My mom is a really good cook. We used to make dumplings together.

I think things like food, the food of the south is sort of the common tie that binds us all, Black and White, the sense memories. It's a very particular part of the country.

Cooking is like music: you can tell when someone puts love into it. I come from a place where there was so much attention to detail. The population is smaller in the South, so more attention is given to serving smaller numbers of people.