Biographers Quote by Dan Barber

I don't think I've ever read a food piece or a food book.

— Calvin Trillin

Food is a profound subject and one, incidentally, about which no writer lies.

— Iris Murdoch

I'm not a food critic, and I'm not really an authority to write anything on food.

— Alex Kapranos

Every author has to eventually write a food book.

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Before I officially began the journey to dig deeper into my food and family roots, I was racking up an internal encyclopedia about other…

— Michael W. Twitty

Of course I didn't pioneer the use of food in fiction: it has been a standard literary device since Chaucer and Rabelais, who used…

— Joanne Harris

In the same way that I've no desire to live in earlier historical periods, I never touch historical recipes. Most historical cooking is detestable.

— David Starkey

“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

food is never just something to eat.

— Margaret Visser

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

— Lidia Bastianich

“I have come to believe that food is history of the deepest kind. Everything we eat tells a tale of ingenuity and creation, domination…

— Robin Sloan

That anyone should need to write a book advising people to "eat food" could be taken as a measure of our alienation and confusion.…

— Michael Pollan