When I'm in L.A., I have salads, sandwiches, and soups all the time. Eating in New York, I feel like I have to have pizza and bagels while I'm here!
I grew up on a farm, and I had good, natural South Tyrolean food.
The food in the South is as important as food anywhere because it defines a person's culture.
I like Sicilian food. It's real peasant food.
it still astounds me, after forty years, that there is no good bread between Chicago and San Francisco.
It's nice coming to Nashville, and we have four-bedroom house and a dog, and we go swimming a lot. We get down here and spread out a lot, and I miss my sweet tea and my cornbread and my good southern cooking - but I'm down here eating pretty for two weeks and I'm ready to go back to New York City.
Nobody needs a chitlin.
I'm a Midwesterner! Not being able to have a cheeseburger once in a while would be torture!
Thin crust, provolone cheese, marinara sauce - it's just a St. Louis thing. That's what I grew up eating.
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.
What you need for breakfast, they say in East Tennessee, is a jug of good corn liquor, a thick steak and a hound dog. Then you feed the steak to the dog.
Although I grew up in Kansas City, ... I have always kept more or less au courant of Texas barbecue, like a sports fan who is almost monomaniacally obsessed with basketball but glances over at the N.H.L. standings now and then.
I found that when I went from Albany to Savannah, that I needed to put that white rice away, and I needed to turn that into Savannah red rice because they were big into that sausage, tomato-y, bell pepper-y rice mixture.
Wherever I go, as long as I get a hot vegetable dish, I am okay. If I am in Gujarat, I have Gujarati food. If it's Shillong, it's northeastern.
