Nostalgic Food Quotes

My husband and I grew up in India, so saag and tikka sauces are very nostalgic for us.

Someone asked how I feel about Captain Crunch. I'm capable of eating an entire box of it without any milk. It is a sweet taste that is indescribable. Captain Crunch is its own flavour.

If I'm out of town and I'm in a situation where I have to be creative, it has to be hot dogs because that's my comfort food.

I grew up in the Fifties and Sixties and remember how unpleasant all kinds of food could be then.

Comfort food is really anything you want at that time. That said, I really love Naple-style pizza.

When I was growing up in Chicago, my family and I used to go to a local chain, Hackney's, for burgers and their French fried onion loaf. I probably haven't been to one in 25 years, and yet, I once saw Donald Trump from behind in an office building and the first thing that flashed in my mind was his hair looked like that onion loaf.

…surprised all over again at how very comforting very bad food can be.

It struck her how eating was a comfort during a hard time because it reminded you that there had been other days, good days, when you’d eaten the same thing. Reminded you there were good days in life, when precious little else did. (268)

When most people return from Europe, they tell tales of all the sites they saw, the shopping, the entertainment, etc. Jews, on the other hand, return and say I had this slice of cake in Austria, let me tell you, I don't know how they make it! It was great!

I don't know if I'd call it a favorite, but there was an entree in the rotation at my grade school cafeteria called 'Salisbury Steak' that was some kind of freestanding spongiform potage covered in a sauce that would probably have to be spelled 'grayvee' for legal reasons.

One of my favorite dishes, absolutely from my childhood, was something my grandmother made, on my mother's side. It was a shepherd's pie, and I really adored that.

The food in south India is the food that I really love because it reminds me of home.

You can't beat a bar of chocolate between cheap white bread - there is nothing like it.

By definition, comfort foods are rich and creamy or evocative of childhood pleasures.

I'm a mac and cheese freak. Homemade or from the blue box, I'm not picky!

When I was a kid, my idea of heaven on a hot summer day was fresh cut-up watermelon, Breakstone's cottage cheese, and a sprinkle of salt.

Grilled cheese and tomato soup is the ultimate comfort meal.

If I'd been traveling, I come home, my mom makes noodles.

I really miss Kanpur. I am very fond of the rasgullas of Ghosh Sweets. I miss strolling in Naveen Market and on Mall Road.

Give me buttered white bread with Marmite crisps and salad cream and I'm a happy girl.

He dropped the rest of the Cokes into the grave and pulled out a white paper bag decorated with cartoons. I hadn’t seen one in years, but I recognized it — a McDonald’s Happy Meal. He turned it upside down and shook the fries and hamburger into the grave. “In my day, we used animal blood,” the ghost mumbled. “It’s perfectly good enough. They can’t taste the difference.” “I will treat them with respect,” Nico said. “At least let me keep the toy,” the ghost said.

For some Chicago expats, food is the medicine that blunts the pain of separation.

When I was a kid, my favorite after-school snack was hominy and pickled pigs feet.

I remember the fact that milk was delivered every day by a milkman. In summer, my mother would make what now seem in my middle-aged imagination the most delicious iced milkshakes.

I can still memory - taste the fresh buttermilk pancakes and hot buttermilk biscuits - both made with lard! - that were cooked on the top, or in the oven, of that ancient iron stove.