Quotes About Traditional Food

#1. Bistro cooking is good, traditional food, earnestly made and honestly displayed. It is earthy, provincial, or bourgeois; as befits that kind of food, it is served in ample portions.

David Liederman

#2. I love eating shabu-shabu in Japan - a kind of beef hotpot. But if you're talking about authentic, traditional food, then Italian cooking is one of the best in the world.

Andrea Bocelli

#3. The new revolution in cooking can be viewed in two ways. One is that you can take any traditional food and apply modern techniques. The other approach is to create food that is quite different than anything that has existed before.

Nathan Myhrvold

#4. It seems hopeless, hopeless. Those who eat meat [at public expense] are a mean, selfish lot, and so the country is doomed. Our only hope lies in the grass-roots folk who eat our traditional food.

Yoshida Shoin

#5. Our membership in this Church ... should never be any cause for self-righteousness, for arrogance, for denigration of others, for looking down upon others. All mankind is our neighbor.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#6. The standardization of world culture, with local popular or traditional forms driven out or dumbed down to make way for American television, American music, food, clothes and films, has been seen by many as the very heart of globalization.

Fredric Jameson

#7. One thing that has been fascinating to me is the exploding interest in traditional American barbecue in Europe. We Americans have historically always imported food ideas from other places, and now we are exporting this gastronomic treasure called barbecue.

Steven Raichlen

#8. Peruvian food is so simple yet amazingly flavored with their traditional spices.

L'Wren Scott

#9. The bad leaders are the ones that push hard so they can gain, who brow beat us so that they can receive the benefit of our hard work, not so we can enjoy the success

Simon Sinek

#10. An answer we discover or obtain through the exercise of faith is typically retained for a lifetime. The most important learnings of life are caught-not taught.

David A. Bednar

#11. We don't really go in for big family dinners, but Scottish people are famously confrontational. It's a cultural thing, so maybe we don't need to have them to clear the air. Also, traditional family food isn't as nice here so there's no payoff for traveling hundreds of miles.

Denise Mina

#12. Goodness is funny because it draws you to it while curiously possessing you with the untrammelled desire to turn it into something bad.

Sophie Villalobos

#13. In Paris and later in Marseille, I was surrounded by some of the best food in the world, and I had an enthusiastic audience in my husband, so it seemed only logical that I should learn how to cook 'la cuisine bourgeoise' - good, traditional French home cooking.

Julia Child

#14. Most traditional Scottish food is designed to use things that are just about to go ... off.

Scott Hutchison

#15. There is a lot of food culture that goes on in the home and in the community in non-traditional ways. Food is a lot more than restaurants.

Eddie Huang

#16. Noel [Charles, husband] and I love cooking. He does his cooking and I do mine. I'm the traditional English cook, with a twist now and then. Because I was married to an Italian, I'm also pretty good at Italian food. Noel, he can cook anything, so can Julian.

Cynthia Lennon

#17. I'd love to give my girls a traditional Thanksgiving with turkey and all that jazz, but we've raised them to love Tuscan food so much that they don't care for it. My favorite is a nice polenta with beef stew and broccoli rabe on the side.

Debi Mazar

#18. Food history is as important as a baroque church. Governments should recognize cultural heritage and protect traditional foods. A cheese is as worthy of preserving as a sixteenth-century building.

Carlo Petrini

#19. Food is a language of care, the thing we do when traditional language fails us, when we don't know what to say, when there are no words to say.

Shauna Niequist

#20. You cannot open a major New York restaurant today and not be aware that showbiz will play a role.

Danny Meyer

#21. On Christmas, my family and I see a movie and go out for Chinese food. We don't celebrate Christmas in the traditional sense, in that we do not actually celebrate Christmas.

Eden Sher

#22. The food in the House of Commons is fairly good. The cafe in Portcullis House is really very high quality, and you also have a choice of eating in the more traditional restaurants, the Churchill Room or the Members' Dining Room. I don't often eat in them, though, as I'm usually on the run.

Vince Cable

#23. Unlike the traditional athlete, I've got to do more than just engage in my sport to put food on the table. When I'm done running, it's straight to the office.

Dean Karnazes

#24. You don't. It doesn't work. One day, you wake up, and you've learned how to store it, and you go to another part of the heart.

Sandra Bullock

#25. Change of state is not the point; recognizing the Changeless is the point, recognizing primordial Emptiness is the point, and if you are breathing and vaguely awake, that state of consciousness will do just fine.

Ken Wilber

#26. One aspect of traditional medicine related to a spiritual cosmology - whether this tradition was Greek, Chinese, or Arab - is the belief that too much food harms the spiritual heart and, in fact, could kill it. It was commonly believed that people who eat in abundance become hardhearted.

Hamza Yusuf

#27. I want to know where my food comes from and the conditions in which it's grown. I also want to embrace traditional British produce, and seasonality.

Sheherazade Goldsmith

#28. Oh no, praying is great, without it the thumbscrews and the Iron Maiden probably never would have been invented.

Stephen King

#29. The main influence on a child's palate may no longer be a parent but a series of food manufacturers whose products - despite their illusion of infinite choice - deliver a monotonous flavour hit, quite unlike the more varied flavours of traditional cuisine.

Bee Wilson

#30. If you feed the people just with revolutionary slogans they will listen today, they will listen tomorrow, they will listen the day after tomorrow, but on the fourth day they will say, "To hell with you."

Nikita Khrushchev

#31. I'll eat anything. I love food in general. I love traditional Mexican, carne asada. Just meat, beans, rice, and some good salsa.

Becky G

#32. British food is a celebration of comfort eating. Our traditional savoury recipes are all about warmth and sustenance, our puddings a roll call of sweet jollity, our cakes are deep and cosy. We appear to be a nation in need of a big, warm hug.

Nigel Slater

#33. I'm a bit traditional in the way that I think that a woman draws her energy from the house. Food is a really nice way of expressing that energy and love, and doing something with care and putting time into it and nourishing your family.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#34. I am a sucker for those old traditional places, and Rome is as good as it gets, particularly when you throw in Italian food.

Roger Federer

#35. When you develop the courage to stand alone..
Courage is what matters..being alone is just a number!

Abha Maryada Banerjee

#36. Wind warns November's done with. The blown leaves make bat-shapes, Web-winged and furious.

Sylvia Plath

#37. Let us be honest with each other. The threat to marriage is not the gays. It is a lack of loving commitment - whether it is found in the form of neglect, indifference, cruelty or adultery, to name just a few manifestations of the loveless desert in which too many marriages come to grief.

Malcolm Turnbull

#38. I don't think 'This Means War' is an appropriate picture to do in 3-D.

McG

#39. Jiro Ono serves Edo-style traditional sushi, the same 20 or 30 pieces he's been making his whole life, and he's still unsatisfied with the quality and every day wakes up and trains to make the best. And that is as close to a religious experience in food as one is likely to get.

Anthony Bourdain

#40. Traditional diets are more than the sum of their food parts.

Michael Pollan