Marcus Samuelsson Quotes

There is a lot of food culture that goes on in the home and in the community in non-traditional ways. Food is a lot more than restaurants.

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

Like all food, whether you're talking about Persian food, or Chinese food, or Swedish food, it's always a reflection of wars, trading, a bunch of good and a bunch of bad. But what's left is always the food story.

I love cooking for the sake of understanding how people before me used to feed themselves, used to feed their families.

Perhaps our Irish friends should not so completely turn their backs on their historical dishes, no matter how many jokes they might have to endure.

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.

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.

Even as a kid, I ventured out to ethnic restaurants all the time.

I have a restaurant in Sri Lanka, and I feel keen to open up something here in Mumbai and bring Sri Lankan food here in India. I feel we have so much in common, but we have a different cuisine, and I am sure people will enjoy here.

To us in Asia, rice is such a staple, we take it for granted. I didn't even think about how I made it until I came to the Western world.

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

Food is never static; culture is never static.

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

As a chef and avid traveler, meeting new people and sharing a meal with the intent to learn more about their culture is important to me.

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.

People have become so much more obsessed with the stories behind their food. When we go the market to buy bacon, we want to know where that pig came from and what processes were involved in getting it to us.

I just couldn't live without other cultures' cuisines.

I have eaten grasshoppers in Thailand, snails in France, ostrich in Australia, crocodile in South Africa and Polar Bear meat in Moscow.

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.

There's never been anyone like Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor, and there never will be. She is such an important source of inspiration for me, reluctant recipe writer and follower that I am.

When I'm at home, I eat kimchi every single day.

I'd dreamed of being in the food business from the moment my globetrotting parents introduced me to the foods of the world during childhood trips to Europe and Asia.

You can tell the history of people on a plate.

You can go anywhere in the world, and people's faces light up when they put delicious food in their mouths.

I'm half Moroccan and half Indian so I have quite an adventurous taste in food.