Food as a hobby used to be an elite pastime, and it has become something that is totally ordinary for people of every background. In that way, we see the growing up of the American food scene: that it's okay… — Dana Goodyear Copy Share Image
I think for diners, it is about crafting an identity around food which we have not really had in a mainstream way in this country. So there is a mass movement of people who identify themselves through their food preferences… — Dana Goodyear Copy Share Image
Like funny men, skilled diners are apparently perceived to have an evolutionary advantage. — Dana Goodyear Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Christmas cookies can't help but be retro - they are memory first, sugar-flour-egg-redhot-gumdrop-sparkle reality second. — Dana Goodyear Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I will eat disgusting things, but only those with long established culinary traditions. — Dana Goodyear Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
My relationship to food is that of an acrophobe to a bridge. Unease masks a desire to jump. — Dana Goodyear Copy Share Image
