Cultural Cuisine Quotes

If you eat Chinese food, your farts come out like Chinese food. If you eat Mexican food, your farts come out like Mexican food. And milk, it’s like - you can smell the warmth in the fart. My wardrobe on Transformers always smells like farts, and I have no idea why.

My learning from my travels is that taste is objective. If a thing is tasty, it's universally tasty. Or, just not.

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

I think that people are getting really excited about different ethnic food, and almost even micro-ethnic food. So it's not just, 'I love Asian,' it's Szechuan or Hunan, this one style from China.

Just because something is English does not necessarily mean it is good. We make the best cheddar; we make great pasties. But we can't make very good brie or baguettes - and the French can't make pork pies.

On tour, people know that if they ever ask me what I want to eat, I will always say Asian food. I'm becoming a stereotype, but it's what I want to eat. I want to eat rice.

Everybody tries so hard to pair wines with Indian food, and it has never been a natural marriage.

There will never be a universal way of cooking, but information will always be universally useful.

I think I should learn French and be a better cook - basic, really good life stuff.

Growing up at my grandmother's table, she always had rice. She might do something as exotic as potatoes or spaghetti, but there was still always rice, just in case you needed a little rice fix.

I am wary of unknown street food, available in plenty in places such as Singapore and Malaysia.

The 'Maverick Chef' is one concept that I would really want to do again because I am traveling from country to country taking from what is in that country that is iconic, special, funky, weird and doing it my way. That is something I really enjoy.

I'm vegan on home base, but when I travel to other countries, I throw it all into the garbage.

Anytime there is Mexican food around, you can bet I'll be eating it.

When I go on Japanese Airlines, I really love it because I like Japanese food.

I hear Seven Cities natives grow fruit just so they can eat the larvae in them.

You eat a lot of goat stomach when you're in North Africa. You eat whatever's put in front of you. I am a big proponent of that.

It's okay to treat yourself once in awhile. I'm not going to stop eating Mexican food!

I remember watching steak being cooked on TV and wanting to try it. As a special treat, my mother cooked it for me, and I thought this would be the time I would eat with a knife and fork. Alas, I ate it with chopsticks!

I can make chicken curry, rice, kheema... I am a foodie and enjoy varied cuisines. My favourites are Korean and Japanese.

Indian food is a luxury on tour.

You should just feel comfortable with food and your own culinary culture, whatever your mother and grandmother know.

Italian food is my favorite food. It's the most sophisticated eating system.

You have to respect the culture you are cooking in, yes, but you have to respect the palate you are cooking for, too, and you have to adjust to that palate.

I've traveled all the way around the world; I've been to over 95 countries, so I love ethnic food, different types of cuisine.