Food Quote by Marcie Cohen Ferris

Southern food derives its strength from many cultures. It's a melding of food cultures from Native Americans, enslaved African-Americans, and Europeans.

— Marcie Cohen Ferris

Southern food that appears in contemporary popular culture is so exaggerated that it's hardly recognizable to most Southerners. This enriching of Southern food -…

— Marcie Cohen Ferris

“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

When I'm asked to define "Southern food," I usually turn that question back to my audience and ask them what they think. I hear…

— Marcie Cohen Ferris

The core cuisine of Southern food is established in the plantation South, within the world of slavery. To understand the plantation table, we must…

— Marcie Cohen Ferris

Not infrequently, Southern food now unlocks the rusty gates of race and class, age and sex. On such occasions, a place at the table…

— John Egerton

“The American South is an authentic American Culture. Maybe the last. The north is just a Casserole Culture – a tasteless vat of leftovers,…

— Tim Heaton

American cooking is one of the unknown cuisines in America.

— Anonymous

“The travels to discovery my heritage revealed to me that the South might not be a place so much as it is a series…

— Michael W. Twitty

In studying food, you embrace everything. Food exposes the long, complex history of the South - slavery, Jim Crow segregation, class struggle, extreme hunger,…

— Marcie Cohen Ferris

Food from all over the world has been embraced so much more within our American culture, and it's become exciting to try different kinds…

— Greta Lee

If you ask what people say what American cuisine is, they cannot really do it. I don't know what it is.

— David Chang