Connecticut Quotes by Dana Goodyear

Like funny men, skilled diners are apparently perceived to have an evolutionary advantage.

— Dana Goodyear

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

The food being presented at the most expensive restaurants, by the most sophisticated chefs, was not always recognizable as food to the diner -…

— Dana Goodyear

There's something about the shape that a poem takes in my mind before I write it that has to do with suddenness.

— Dana Goodyear

Christmas cookies can't help but be retro - they are memory first, sugar-flour-egg-redhot-gumdrop-sparkle reality second.

— Dana Goodyear

I find that people in the food world are amazingly willing to talk about what they are doing, even when those things are quasi-legal…

— Dana Goodyear

I was terrified of taking the G.R.E.

— Dana Goodyear

I love trying new restaurants.

— Dana Goodyear

I will eat disgusting things, but only those with long established culinary traditions.

— Dana Goodyear

Ultimately, taste is so niche and so personal.

— Dana Goodyear

For me, it makes sense to address shocking experiences through poems because of the way poems also have that effect on the reader.

— Dana Goodyear

My relationship to food is that of an acrophobe to a bridge. Unease masks a desire to jump.

— Dana Goodyear