Philip Rosenthal Quotes

I enjoy living life and I enjoy going to different restaurants and eating my way through a country and going to different museums and learning about different cultures.

I love pizza, I love Chinese food, Caribbean food, I love Italian.

I think that curiosity happened on these reviews where I was just a guest of the reviewer, because it introduced me to new cuisines and to the idea of cooking as a mechanism for studying other cultures and understanding other parts of the world.

I actually didn't grow up in a household that loved Chinese food particularly, and it's not really my go-to food or anything... We were more a pizza family, being from the Chicago area and all.

I like a lot of food. I like Taiwanese food, of course. I like baguettes, especially the ones that my dad buys. Vancouver has a lot of variety, with pizza, hot dogs, Italian, Indian, seafood - a great combination of culture.

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.

I've got tremendous respect for different cultures, for the food and everything.

I've played American, Italian, Greek, French. I've been really lucky that way.

People are lazy, and they want their fast food via the television.

I want to explore the world properly, to be able to write about and take pictures of all kinds of different cultures. Just be an explorer or adventurer. I also love extreme sports.

What I've learned, traveling the country and doing book signings, Mama's biscuits - you know, somebody in Montana's got their version of Mama's biscuits, somebody in California's got their version - so it made me realize that we're not as regionalized as we think we are.

A non-fussy home delivery of chicken biryani at 3 A.M., absolutely makes my day.

I love experiencing new cultures and new foods.

Some foods you may say, 'Oh wow, this is not food.' People actually eat that somewhere. I just want people to really understand that and really appreciate it.

I get asked to speak to a lot of different groups, one of the best parts of my job hosting a show on the Travel Channel, 'Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern.' I take viewers to the far corners of the globe and introduce them to other cultures by exploring the foods they eat - at times, pretty strange stuff.

In London, you can eat your way around the world - Lebanese one night, Indian the next.

In the evening, we either go to the cinema or stay in and get a takeaway - my favourites are Chinese or Indian.

I love a Chinese on a Saturday night.

To me, traveling in the United States isn't that much fun. I like to go elsewhere and experience different cultures.

I love to eat internationally and do eating contests everywhere. Traveling around, meeting people, and doing different things.

The single greatest pleasure that I have in doing ('Bizarre Foods') is when I meet families with 6, 7, 8-year-olds, or teenagers, who say, 'It's something the whole family can watch, and it lets us show our younger children that one man's 'weird' is another man's 'wonderful,' and we all kind of live in the same place.' It's just the best part of my day.

I used to eat Danny Kaye's food. I had his Chinese and Italian meals, and that was as good as it gets.

Given my travels, I've learned to be more open and feel much more comfortable experimenting with food.

Eating together was a big part of my upbringing and a tradition we keep daily amongst the amazing team at Milk Bar.

Road trips are amazing because you get to see the true India from a street level and interact with people from different states that have so much pride in their local heritage, food, and customs.