Food Quote by David Carr

“He had a Minnesotan’s admiration for resourcefulness in the face of hardship, bred by generations of people one very bad winter away from starvation…

— Viet Thanh Nguyen

“Exactly what the great white eats in an emergency is a mystery ichthyologists solved by the late twentieth century after decades of investigation: whatever…

— Michael Capuzzo

“Minneapolis was small, somnolent, and full of Swedish and Norwegian farmers as charming as cornstalks.”

— Erik Larson

“It is also clear that structural racism is beating down the black chef. It started with segregation; black chefs in the South were either…

— Michael W. Twitty

“The upscale neighborhoods in Blue Sky Hill weren't all lily white anymore, but you could be sure their kids didn't wear our kind of…

— Lisa Wingate

I grew up in Minnesota.

— Anonymous

As a child growing up in pre-gentrification Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, I went everywhere by bicycle. My bike was in many ways the key to…

— Jonathan Lethem

I grew up in an all-white community.

— Gayle King

“This Midwest. A dissonance of parts and people, we are a consonance of Towns. Like a man grown fat in everything but heart, we…

— William H. Gass

We know so much about the European food story, and we're getting to know about the American food story; but we know so little…

— Marcus Samuelsson

“Today's American food culture is a contested landscape in search of values, new direction, and its own indigenous sense of rightness and self-worth. It's…

— Michael W. Twitty

“All these white folks that move to LA, they don't just come here looking for something. I think they also tryin' to get away…

— Philip Wyeth