And, of course, the funniest food of all, kumquats.

A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually…

— Mark Twain

Food as a hobby used to be an elite pastime, and it has become something that is totally ordinary for people of every background.…

— Dana Goodyear

“It is often difficult, I find, for people today to grasp the notion that one family, working through several restaurants could change the eating…

— Caleb Carr

“Thinking about anything interesting?” I shrug and force my brain to stay with safer topics. “I didn’t know you could feed a baby Thai…

— Brigid Kemmerer

The growth of the American food industry will always bump up against this troublesome biological fact: Try as we might, each of us can…

— Michael Pollan

We know so much about the European food story, and we're getting to know about the American food story; but we know so little…

— Marcus Samuelsson

America knows nothing of food, love, or art.

— Isadora Duncan

American food is not what I'm used to - everything is like three portions.

— Estelle

No one had told us that in L.A. we would get only American food. I had no choice but to eat rice porridge without…

— P. T. Usha

“Much of our food system depends on our not knowing much about it, beyond the price disclosed by the checkout scanner; cheapness and ignorance…

— Michael Pollan

“It didn’t take long for us to realize, though, that we hadn’t eaten since the eggs twenty-four hours earlier. Eating was the one desire…

— Ree Drummond

When I first came here, Italian food wasn't anything I recognized. I didn't know what Italian American food was; we never ate it at…

— Lidia Bastianich

“What type of food?" "What do you mean what type?" "I mean Mexican, Italian, French, American?" "I wasn't aware that American was a type…

— Brett Arquette

When I founded the first Hard Rock, no one was serving American food in London; McDonald's wasn't there, Burger King, etc.

— Peter Morton

Growing up, everybody would cross the border, even to just do grocery shopping. A lot of traditional American foods stuck with my parents and…

— Marcela Valladolid