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…

— Dana Goodyear

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

— 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…

— 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…

— Dana Goodyear

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

— Dana Goodyear

Los Angeles is a city of few hard targets. Its iconic buildings are private spaces, mostly residential, visible by invitation only or…

— Dana Goodyear

Food is a lens for culture.

— Dana Goodyear

Los Angeles is a good city in which to be a reporter. Always entertaining, always an incubator.

— Dana Goodyear

Like the rest of the city, LAX is coming of age.

— Dana Goodyear

“I stayed with you inside the room, as the warm white walls became a womb.”

— Dana Goodyear

I think for diners, it is about crafting an identity around food which we have not really had in a mainstream way…

— Dana Goodyear

Hollywood, the business, would be just fine if someone were to destroy the Hollywood sign. The city's there is the airport -…

— Dana Goodyear

If this is the end of the world, give me a fork and a knife.

— Dana Goodyear

I'm a total foodie.

— Dana Goodyear

I developed my taste for coffee at five, staying with my grandmother in Connecticut.

— Dana Goodyear

I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more…

— Dana Goodyear