Baroque Quote by Carlo Petrini

Food might be more immediately important than history but if you don't understand what's been done to you - by your own people and…

— Henry Hampton

We ought to know about our culinary past. Food and identity is terribly important ... I don't mean we should go out and eat…

— Tom Jaine

Great food, like all art, enhances and reflects a community’s vitality, growth and solidarity. Yet history bears witness that great cuisines spring only from…

— Rick Bayless

“A human being is primarily a bag for putting food into; the other functions and faculties may be more godlike, but in point of…

— George Orwell

If antiquity be the only test of nobility, then cheese is a very noble thing ... The lineage of cheese is demonstrably beyond all record.

— Hilaire Belloc

Food is all about the story of a people through the ages.

— Lidia Bastianich

I think that food ties us to our community and our traditions, and it's the thing that makes us feel good and connected.

— Kathy Freston

“Culinary historians looking back at the first decades of the twenty-first century will be blessed with vast quantities of material to study, thanks to…

— Laura Shapiro

I'd say that my identity is really a culinary identity, so the way I relate to my national heritage is through its cuisine.

— Princess Tatiana of Greece and Denmark

I grew up with that farm-to-table dining before it was sweeping the nation. I do think there's some value to really throwing yourself into…

— Meghan Markle

There is a history to Italian food that goes back thousands of years, and there's a basic value of respecting food. America is young…

— Lidia Bastianich

The social aspects of food are really important to me - my favourite food-related memories are meals I've shared with my family and friends.…

— Lisa Hanawalt