America Quote by Luigi Barzini

Oh yes, there's lots of great food in America. But the fast food is about as destructive and evil as it gets. It celebrates…

— Anthony Bourdain

The French fry did not become America's most popular vegetable until industry took over the jobs of washing, peeling, cutting, and frying the potatoes…

— Michael Pollan

A potato is a poor thing, poorly treated. More often than not it is cooked in so unthinking and ignorant a manner as to…

— M. F. K. Fisher

I appreciate the potato only as a protection against famine, except for that, I know of nothing more eminently tasteless.

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

A safe, affordable and plentiful supply of food is a national security issue.

— Doug Ose

Burgers and fries are an American staple. On the same token, my kids eat vegetables, and they always have eaten vegetables. They didn't have…

— Don Thompson

“Food used to be something you’d eat at meals. Meals used to be occasions when you’d sit down at the table and eat home-cooked…

— Alex Brecher

In America, we are engaged in constant battle with food.

— Marcus Samuelsson

The French fried potato has become an inescapable horror in almost every public eating place in the country. 'French fries', say the menus, but…

— Russell Baker

I'm not sure that some of the food purists are in touch with what really goes on in American households.

— Sandra Lee

What worries me is that, because of the amount of media coverage of food, Britain seems to have become a foodie nation - but…

— Fergus Henderson

Judging foods without regard to price is a rich mans game, and yet poor people can be gourmets able to discern a good potato…

— Mark Kurlansky