Food Quote by Mario Puzo

I say to my industrialist friends, when you have guests from out of town, I don't care how important they are, you should feed…

— Brunello Cucinelli

“The restaurant, Bongiorno's, was bad and didn't know it. Everything was presented with a passive-aggressive flourish, as though we probably weren't savvy enough to…

— Jonathan Lethem

My default-setting Italian recipes that I always fall back on are the ones that we had as kids, like spaghetti vongole, which is tomato…

— Tamzin Outhwaite

I've always been able to cook Italian food. That's in my blood because I'm half Sicilian.

— Jen Lancaster

Danger is to adventure what garlic is to spaghetti sauce. Without it, you just end up with stewed tomatoes.

— Tom Robbins

I typically like Sicilian pizza.

— Roy Choi

Before we opened, we did some research on the North Shore and we found that people wanted both Italian and seafood. Those are the…

— Marc Jacobs

“Different people will draw the line in different places with regard to farms like Paul’s and Frank’s. People I respect draw it differently. But…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

My friend told me he was going to a fancy-dress party as an Italian island. I said: 'Don’t be Sicily’.

— Tim Vine

“The Sicilian people were very friendly. Once we drove the Germans out I got to see Catania, where every house had homemade spaghetti drying…

— Charles Brandt

My friend told me he was going to a fancy dress party as an Italian island. I said to him, ‘Don’t be Sicily’.

— Tim Vine

One of the biggest dishes in Sicily is couscous, and there's always been a North African influence on Italian culture, culinary culture there.

— Jonas Carpignano