Food Identity Quotes

If you ask what people say what American cuisine is, they cannot really do it. I don't know what it is.

For dinner I want real sushi - not the Americanized kind. My parents are American Samoan so I don't go for any of those rolls. I'll have raw prawn or sea urchin or octopus. I love it.

The food in the South is as important as food anywhere because it defines a person's culture.

There are certain foods that are somewhat sacred or you're not supposed to mess with. When you do mess with them, it touches a nerve where you have to compare it to the original, and then that thing you're creating has a loosing change right out of the gate.

I'd like to stand up for the rights of people who put everything on their burger - chutney, mustard, pickle, mustard pickle, tomato sauce... It is common knowledge in my family that I can't tell the difference between a veggie burger and a meat one, because the ratio of burger to pickles is so high.

I cook British food, but it doesn't mean I'm jingoistic about it. People can cook very good fusion food.

What you eat is everything. What you eat is what you are.

What exactly is a french before it's fried?

Canadian bacon isn't bacon. It's ham.

I am a burger guy, but actually I'm more of a Mexican food guy.

I hate turkeys. If you stand in the meat section at the grocery store long enough, you start to get mad at turkeys. There's turkey ham, turkey bologna, turkey pastrami. Some one needs to tell the turkey, 'man, just be yourself.'

You have to have a lot of respect for hot dogs. It's completely different from sandwich. First of all, the hot dog is American. Sandwiches are not American. They're different. Second of all, a hot dog is like a pop idol. Hot dogs are cute. It's a pop image - everyone knows what a hot dog is.

People are trying to figure out what American food is; it's certainly an amalgamation.

When I opened Milk Bar in November 2008, I was quite adamant about making sure the bakery was an honest reflection of life and food through my eyes. I had no intention beyond that.

Food is never static; culture is never static.

Food is a reflection of who you are as a person.

There was a Greek restaurant, the only place we could get Italian food. All of us Italians and many others from other parts of Europe used to go there, and Rajiv and his friends also. Some of his group knew some of my group, and we met just like that.

Food is culture, and we need to listen to it.

I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive.

They say California's the big burrito; Texas is a big taco right now. We want to follow that through. Florida is a big tamale.

Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.

Food is one of the great organizing tools.

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.

Potato salad is very personal: everyone makes theirs differently.

Cooking is about imbibing different cultures and putting them in a plate on the table.