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- Nov 07, 2020
Food Quotes
Food as comfort, hardship, and honest confession.
This collection spans food's range, from the humiliation of accidentally poisoning a dinner guest to a genuine hardship of not having enough money for basic meals or clothes while starting out. For lighter, image-ready food lines, see Captions.
- Last Updated on Aug 01, 2026
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, sometimes if I go out to dinner with my family, people will come up to me and put their hand across my plate for me to shake, sometimes when I have a bite of food in my mouth. I find this a bit disturbing.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not really a food connoisseur.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In America, people think being South Asian is still kind of exotic. When you go outside New York and Chicago and L.A., there are people who have never tried Indian food... they've never even tasted it!
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there is a real misconception about Indian food being super spicy. And I know that's because when you go into an Indian restaurant, it is pretty spicy. But it doesn't have to be. In fact, my husband can't handle a lot of heat. I've had to temper my cooking so that he can eat with me.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started cooking seven years ago for real, and I started with pasta, and lasagna and roast chicken. Very normal American dishes. When I turned on Food Network, or any sort of cooking channel, that's what people were making. So that's where your education comes from.
- Recipes
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm encouraged because you pick up any food magazine and there's two or three recipes involving Indian spices.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always wanted to be someone with credibility, and I want my food to speak for myself.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
The food in south India is the food that I really love because it reminds me of home.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Indian food has been huge in the UK forever and ever, but that's because it has a historical rooting. America, I think is really ripe for it. There's been so much interest in Indian culture.
- Flavors
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- Nov 07, 2020
Marcus Samuelsson is a chef who inspires me everyday. He has such a deep understanding of flavors and techniques. His food is representative of the diverse world that we live in. What he has done in Harlem with Red Rooster is very special. Marcus is not just a chef, he's a food activist.
- Mexican
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- Nov 07, 2020
Latin food suffers like Chinese. You can do marginal Chinese and be successful. You can do crappy Mexican and be packed.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to get away from the Mexican vernacular and do more 'nuevo Latino.' Americans are starting to understand regionality in Mexican food. It is very regional in terms of ingredients.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm typically a 'just drink water' kind of guy. I was a bodybuilder in high school, so I used to - food to me was, 'there are this many grams of carbohydrates and proteins, and I need these micronutrients in order to grow and be fit,' and I ate in order to live and not live in order to eat, and I think most people are the opposite.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know it sounds weird, but the food that I eat, it doesn't make a big difference, and it never has. So, I've saved a ton of money not buying a lot of alcohol, not going out to restaurants too much. So, I think it's part of our culture, and it's part of a social activity more than anything else.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I get down to Louisiana, I get to have a taste of some of that great food.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020