Gil Marks Quotes

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

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

Food is a lens for culture.

We can all be defined by food.

Food is the common language for all of us.

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

Food is a way to explore culture and ground the story in a specific time and place. I still remember the meals and snacks from my first novel, 'Shug': pork chops and applesauce and Coca-Cola and peanuts, which are very Southern. When a character has roots elsewhere, food is a way to connect with home and another culture.

Spain is a fascinating mix of people, languages, culture and food, but if there is one thing all Spaniards share, it's a love of food and drink.

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 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.

Food is a common denominator for all people.

I realized very early the power of food to evoke memory, to bring people together, to transport you to other places, and I wanted to be a part of that.

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

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

You can tell the history of people on a plate.

For me, cooking is an expression of the land where you are and the culture of that place.

Food can bring people together in a way nothing else could.

Women's cooking has always had a big influence on me personally.

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

Food is our common ground, a universal experience.

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

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

The greatest guarantee for the preservation of a person’s identity is language and faith, and all Armenians must carry these two values.