Nick Clooney Quotes

The food we eat is our identity. The youth of the nation must save our food culture and traditions. If not, it will affect future generations.

I'm proud of my Irish heritage and culture and this show will feature a lot of Irish dancing.

If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father.

I say to my industrialist friends, when you have guests from out of town, I don't care how important they are, you should feed them the essence of Italian culture: spaghetti, bread and olive oil.

Being Irish, I grew up eating a Sunday roast.

Writers like John T. Edge, whose work is all about the cultural histories behind food, have done so much to show that these stories are a really vital part of our cultural heritage.

Food is culture. Food is an identity, a footprint of who you are.

I'm still very much a Northerner. I try to have chips and gravy twice a week.

There is a history to Italian food that goes back thousands of years, and there's a basic value of respecting food. America is young and doesn't have that.

We are always giving foreign names to very native things. If there is a thing that reeks of the glorious tradition of the old English tavern, it is toasted cheese. But for some wild reason we call it Welsh rarebit. I believe that what we call Irish stew might more properly be called English stew, and that it is not particularly familiar in Ireland.

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

I feel totally French - I don't feel half-French because of my dual nationality. For me, dual nationality just means I don't deny my roots.

I am a Bengali, I like my rice.

My pride at wearing the Irish shirt was always 100 per cent genuine. It was a great honour for myself and my family and something I will always cherish.

I'm Yemeni, proud to be Yemeni. I'm public Yemeni number one!

More than anything, a lot of our family's history is tied to food. It's just one of those things.

You can tell the history of people on a plate.

I speak Tamil well and I am proud to be living as a Tamil. but above it all, I am very proud Indian!

To know a community is to know its food.

I've always had a complex relationship towards my identity as an American.

I feel so much more connected with my Asian side than I do with my British side - of course, I'm proud of my British side.

People all over the world know me as an Indian artist. I could have chosen any other country and wouldn't have had to go through problems claiming my citizenship. But it is India where my heart is and has always been.

There's this great fashion among writers, especially those who follow the transnational conservatives like V.S. Naipaul, to disavow one's place in the world as a sort of box that has sprung you but is only worthy of your scorn, because it once contained you. And I've been tempted to say foolish things, like "I am an American writer" or "I belong nowhere," but the truth is I'm perfectly proud of identifying as an Indian writer, even if that might hurt my bottom line.

I'm proud of my Irish heritage and culture.

Europe's greatest problem is cultural relativism. This has led to a situation where Europeans no longer know what they should be proud of and who they really are because a so-called liberal and leftist-imposed concept says that all cultures are the same.